Sale reports / Georgia / Swainsboro / 2020-04-20

Swainsboro

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Swainsboro, Georgia · Mon, Apr 20
● Final25 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1931
Feeder Cattle receipts
119 head
▲ 16 vs last sale 103▼ 325 vs year ago 444 · −73.2%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
40 head
▲ 1 vs last sale 39▼ 26 vs year ago 66 · −39.4%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows steady to 4.00 lower, slaughter bulls mostly steady, feeder steers and bulls mostly steady, feeder heifers steady to 2.00 higher, steer and bulls calves steady, heifer calves steady to 2.00 higher, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $120.16/cwt on 36 head.
Average price
$120.16
36 head · 523 lb average
Value per head Derived
$628
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$1
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$9.97/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−2.78
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1491127.636279thin
Medium and Large 2533117.6762727
One grade step is worth $9.97/cwt here — about −$1 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale36 hd
120.16
—
GA average15 barns · 822 hd
122.94
−2.78
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Average1,93098.001,8911thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,32861.6581910
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,11450.575636thin

Every lot, as filed

25 lots · USDA AMS · Swainsboro Stockyard - Swainsboro, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
BullsMedium and Large 1—373141.36/cwt140.00–142.005273
BullsMedium and Large 1—530123.56/cwt120.00–129.006553
BullsMedium and Large 1—570117.98/cwt116.00–120.006723
BullsMedium and Large 2—385138.48/cwt137.00–140.005334
BullsMedium and Large 2—510117.99/cwt116.00–119.006024
BullsMedium and Large 2—618102.47/cwt100.00–105.006334
SteersMedium and Large 2—76397.49/cwt95.00–100.007442
HeifersMedium and Large 2—515104.76/cwt99.00–109.005407
HeifersMedium and Large 1—78591.98/cwt89.00–95.007222
HeifersMedium and Large 2—77883.05/cwt80.00–86.006462
HeifersMedium and Large 2—567101.71/cwt100.00–105.005773
SteersMedium and Large 2—660112.66/cwt111.00–114.007443
SteersMedium and Large 2—475132.39/cwt130.00–135.006292
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,35060.95/cwt58.00–65.008237
CowsLean 85-90%—1,13346.51/cwt46.00–47.005272
CowsLean 85-90%—1,10452.60/cwt50.00–57.005814
HeifersMedium and Large 2—60795.65/cwt91.00–98.005813
HeifersMedium and Large 2—437113.38/cwt112.00–115.004955
HeifersMedium and Large 2—478110.72/cwt105.00–115.005297
BullsMedium and Large 2—671104.00/cwt103.00–105.006984
BullsMedium and Large 2—577112.47/cwt106.00–115.006495
BullsMedium and Large 2—462127.15/cwt123.00–130.005876
Bulls——1,93098.00/cwt98.00–98.001,8911
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,14552.00/cwt52.00–52.005951
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,34368.91/cwt68.00–70.009252

How this sale compares

Georgia weighted averages
One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Georgia auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.