Sale reports / Georgia / Thomasville / 2019-10-15

Thomasville

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Thomasville, Georgia · Tue, Oct 15
● Final39 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1938
Feeder Cattle receipts
280 head
▲ 44 vs last sale 236▲ 280 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
77 head
▼ 69 vs last sale 146▲ 77 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
30 head
▲ 9 vs last sale 21▲ 30 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to one week earlier, slaughter cows unevenly steady, slaughter bulls lightly tested, feeder steers, bulls, and heifers steady, steer and bull calves unevenly steady, heifer calves steady to 3.00 lower. Replacement cows steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $110.28/cwt on 99 head.
Average price
$110.28
99 head · 520 lb average
Value per head Derived
$573
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$159
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$23.52/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+4.59
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1548120.8766330
Medium and Large 2507106.0653866
Medium and Large 351797.355033thin
One grade step is worth $23.52/cwt here — about $159 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 sale99 hd
110.28
—
GA average16 barns · 1,495 hd
105.69
+4.59
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—Average1,67470.011,1724thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,11245.9651122
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,06141.6044228

Every lot, as filed

39 lots · USDA AMS · Thomasville Stockyard - Thomasville, 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 2—243132.53/cwt130.00–135.003222
BullsMedium and Large 2—571105.48/cwt105.00–106.006022
BullsMedium and Large 2—65599.00/cwt96.00–102.006482
BullsMedium and Large 2—264127.54/cwt125.00–131.003377
BullsMedium and Large 2—518105.87/cwt104.00–112.005488
BullsMedium and Large 2—410125.37/cwt119.00–127.0051410
BullsMedium and Large 2—385130.85/cwt129.00–136.0050411
BullsMedium and Large 3—371109.74/cwt105.00–115.004072
BullsMedium and Large 3—467105.19/cwt103.00–108.004915
HeifersMedium and Large 1—494120.75/cwt120.00–121.005978
HeifersMedium and Large 1—568120.91/cwt120.00–121.0068722
HeifersMedium and Large 2—372110.66/cwt107.00–114.004123
HeifersMedium and Large 2—620100.34/cwt100.00–101.006223
HeifersMedium and Large 2—581102.77/cwt101.00–104.005974
HeifersMedium and Large 2—465105.52/cwt101.00–110.004916
HeifersMedium and Large 2—340110.99/cwt110.00–114.003778
HeifersMedium and Large 2—426108.04/cwt105.00–110.0046011
HeifersMedium and Large 2—65999.67/cwt99.00–100.0065712
HeifersMedium and Large 2—530107.92/cwt104.00–110.0057219
HeifersMedium and Large 3—51797.35/cwt95.00–102.005033
SteersMedium and Large 1—427131.29/cwt129.00–135.005613
SteersMedium and Large 1—615126.86/cwt125.00–127.0078014
SteersMedium and Large 2—383139.03/cwt137.00–140.005323
SteersMedium and Large 2—482123.99/cwt123.00–126.005983
SteersMedium and Large 2—513125.67/cwt125.00–126.006453
SteersMedium and Large 2—607114.97/cwt112.00–116.006984
SteersMedium and Large 2—434121.27/cwt114.00–124.005267
SteersMedium and Large 2—576122.97/cwt119.00–125.0070811
SteersMedium and Large 2—670112.63/cwt112.00–119.0075511
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-2—1,275888.82/cwt880.00–900.0011,3324
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,03544.37/cwt41.00–54.004595
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,12358.44/cwt56.00–60.006566
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,10251.29/cwt45.00–66.005656
Bulls——1,91571.00/cwt71.00–71.001,3601
Bulls——1,59369.68/cwt69.00–70.001,1103
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,22249.87/cwt47.00–53.0060910
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,02042.71/cwt38.00–45.0043612
CowsLean 85-90%—1,09345.73/cwt43.00–50.0050011
CowsLean 85-90%—1,04138.92/cwt35.00–41.0040517

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.