Sale reports / Georgia / Swainsboro / 2020-05-25

Swainsboro

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Swainsboro, Georgia · Mon, May 25
● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1931
Feeder Cattle receipts
195 head
▼ 107 vs last sale 302▼ 92 vs year ago 287 · −32.1%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
45 head
▼ 17 vs last sale 62▼ 70 vs year ago 115 · −60.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $122.23/cwt on 61 head.
Average price
$122.23
61 head · 538 lb average
Value per head Derived
$658
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$77
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 1
$0.33/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−0.42
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2504122.4061729
Medium and Large 1569122.0769532
One grade step is worth $0.33/cwt here — about −$77 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 sale61 hd
122.23
—
GA average16 barns · 1,228 hd
122.65
−0.42
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—Average1,798100.001,7982thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,22662.307649thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Average1,74559.001,0301thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low92851.9348210

Every lot, as filed

28 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—665112.03/cwt110.00–114.007452
BullsMedium and Large 1—623117.94/cwt114.00–121.007353
BullsMedium and Large 1—572121.33/cwt118.00–128.006945
BullsMedium and Large 1—728104.59/cwt102.00–106.007615
BullsMedium and Large 1—472134.69/cwt130.00–140.006367
BullsMedium and Large 1—521125.60/cwt123.00–130.0065410
HeifersMedium and Large 1—375130.44/cwt129.00–132.004892
SteersMedium and Large 1—530134.71/cwt130.00–137.007143
SteersMedium and Large 1—558133.01/cwt132.00–135.007423
SteersMedium and Large 2—473134.11/cwt130.00–138.006342
HeifersMedium and Large 1—568111.52/cwt107.00–116.006332
HeifersMedium and Large 1—526116.50/cwt115.00–118.006134
HeifersMedium and Large 1—439122.89/cwt120.00–124.005398
HeifersMedium and Large 1—490118.75/cwt115.00–124.005828
HeifersMedium and Large 2—66597.50/cwt95.00–100.006482
HeifersMedium and Large 2—369122.21/cwt115.00–125.004518
Bulls——1,54095.00/cwt95.00–95.001,4631
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,06057.50/cwt57.00–58.006102
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,27463.67/cwt60.00–66.008117
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,74559.00/cwt59.00–59.001,0301
CowsLean 85-90%—1,09046.26/cwt45.00–49.005043
CowsLean 85-90%—85954.36/cwt50.00–57.004677
Bulls——2,055105.00/cwt105.00–105.002,1581
BullsMedium and Large 2—385138.08/cwt135.00–142.005323
BullsMedium and Large 2—595113.67/cwt107.00–117.006763
BullsMedium and Large 2—419134.36/cwt130.00–137.005636
BullsMedium and Large 2—622106.54/cwt102.00–110.006637
BullsMedium and Large 2—482124.25/cwt120.00–130.0059910

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.