Name: Bloomfield Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No recent auction for comparison. Demand was good today, especially for the seven weight steers and six weight heifers. Supply was heavy and included several load lots of reputation cattle.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $330.57/cwt on 197 head. That ranks 1 of 12 comparable sales and sits −151.71 against this barn's trailing median of $482.28.

Average price

$330.57

197 head · 552 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,823

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$224

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$50.06/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.54

vs IA average

−11.51 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	547	343.53	1,880	146
Medium and Large 1-2	564	293.47	1,656	51

One grade step is worth $50.06/cwt here — about $224 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

12 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $513.77, low $452.62, median $482.28 across 12 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale197 hd

330.57

—

IA average11 barns · 2,185 hd

330.03

+0.54

National average155 barns · 22,672 hd

342.08

−11.51

This barn, trailing median12 sales

482.28

−151.71

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot, as filed

44 lots · USDA AMS · Bloomfield Livestock Feeder Cattle - Bloomfield, IA

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	443	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,772	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	676	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,697	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	529	288.00/cwt	288.00–288.00	1,524	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	392	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,607	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	750–800	752	264.50/cwt	264.50–264.50	1,989	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	627	281.67/cwt	270.00–287.50	1,766	43
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	725	286.69/cwt	271.00–295.00	2,079	209
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	765	282.92/cwt	262.00–285.00	2,164	76
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	564	327.50/cwt	327.50–327.50	1,847	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	540	327.50/cwt	327.50–327.50	1,769	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	534	295.35/cwt	260.00–320.00	1,577	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	450–500	493	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	1,824	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	750–800	752	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,970	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	537	352.78/cwt	342.50–377.50	1,894	92
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	587	292.04/cwt	275.00–305.00	1,714	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	346	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,142	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	429	348.19/cwt	342.50–360.00	1,494	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	378	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	1,399	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	807	237.50/cwt	237.50–237.50	1,917	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	862	203.00/cwt	203.00–203.00	1,750	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	910	196.00/cwt	196.00–196.00	1,784	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	650–700	665	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	1,729	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	415	357.50/cwt	357.50–357.50	1,484	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	489	327.52/cwt	315.00–355.00	1,602	26
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	569	327.86/cwt	322.50–336.50	1,866	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	487	382.88/cwt	380.00–385.00	1,865	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	729	262.15/cwt	246.00–270.00	1,911	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	660	297.51/cwt	292.00–299.00	1,964	82
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	622	319.40/cwt	300.00–332.00	1,987	224
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	820	263.91/cwt	254.00–267.50	2,164	59
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	383	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,053	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	561	257.50/cwt	257.50–257.50	1,445	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	636	295.75/cwt	278.00–301.25	1,881	149
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	579	313.59/cwt	303.50–320.00	1,816	122
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	600–650	605	336.00/cwt	336.00–336.00	2,033	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	678	300.55/cwt	284.00–309.00	2,038	242
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	531	294.86/cwt	262.50–305.00	1,566	63
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	476	337.39/cwt	325.00–350.00	1,606	30
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	633	254.70/cwt	242.00–265.00	1,612	47
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	669	255.32/cwt	240.00–267.00	1,708	53
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	438	325.45/cwt	325.00–326.00	1,425	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	462	303.24/cwt	259.00–315.00	1,401	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	576	276.05/cwt	250.00–285.00	1,590	72
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	531	317.13/cwt	306.00–340.00	1,684	143

How this sale compares

Iowa weighted averages

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

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Bloomfield Livestock Feeder Cattle - Bloomfield, IA

Wed Jan 8, 2025

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No recent auction for comparison. Demand was good today, especially for the seven weight steers and six weight heifers. Supply was heavy and included several load lots of reputation cattle.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	350–400	392	410.00	410.00
5	400–450	443	400.00	400.00
27	450–500	487	380.00–385.00	382.88
92	500–550	537	342.50–377.50	352.78
41	550–600	569	322.50–336.50	327.86
224	600–650	622	300.00–332.00	319.40
242	650–700	678	284.00–309.00	300.55
209	700–750	725	271.00–295.00	286.69
76	750–800	765	262.00–285.00	282.92
59	800–850	820	254.00–267.50	263.91
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
18	450–500	493	370.00	370.00
7	500–550	540	327.50	327.50
6	550–600	564	327.50	327.50
15	750–800	752	264.50	264.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	300–350	346	330.00	330.00
8	400–450	415	357.50	357.50
26	450–500	489	315.00–355.00	327.52
22	500–550	534	260.00–320.00	295.35
29	550–600	587	275.00–305.00	292.04
43	600–650	627	270.00–287.50	281.67
5	750–800	752	262.00	262.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
10	600–650	605	336.00	336.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
9	500–550	529	288.00	288.00
4	550–600	561	257.50	257.50
20	650–700	676	251.00	251.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	350–400	378	370.00	370.00
16	400–450	429	342.50–360.00	348.19
30	450–500	476	325.00–350.00	337.39
143	500–550	531	306.00–340.00	317.13
122	550–600	579	303.50–320.00	313.59
149	600–650	636	278.00–301.25	295.75
82	650–700	660	292.00–299.00	297.51
39	700–750	729	246.00–270.00	262.15
8	800–850	807	237.50	237.50
7	850–900	862	203.00	203.00
4	900–950	910	196.00	196.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
40	650–700	665	260.00	260.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	350–400	383	275.00	275.00
11	400–450	438	325.00–326.00	325.45
21	450–500	462	259.00–315.00	303.24
63	500–550	531	262.50–305.00	294.86
72	550–600	576	250.00–285.00	276.05
47	600–650	633	242.00–265.00	254.70
53	650–700	669	240.00–267.00	255.32

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.

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