Name: Clarinda Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the feeder calf auction one week ago (March 27) market results, given today's much lower receipts, were fully steady with a lower undertone across all weight class. In today's offering were home-raised, LTW'd and double vaccinated feeder steers and heifers. Demand was good for today's light supply. Trade was active.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $354.45/cwt on 113 head. That ranks 1 of 19 comparable sales and sits −127.13 against this barn's trailing median of $481.58.

Average price

$354.45

113 head · 562 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,994

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$252

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

$60.84/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−19.29

vs IA average

−14.56 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	557	366.30	2,040	91
Medium and Large 1-2	585	305.45	1,788	22

One grade step is worth $60.84/cwt here — about $252 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

19 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $513.77, low $448.37, median $481.58 across 19 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 sale113 hd

354.45

—

IA average6 barns · 968 hd

373.74

−19.29

National average168 barns · 11,835 hd

369.01

−14.56

This barn, trailing median19 sales

481.58

−127.13

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

29 lots · USDA AMS · Clarinda Livestock Feeder Cattle - Clarinda, 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
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	500–550	539	335.50/cwt	335.50–335.50	1,808	47
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	340	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,360	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	687	273.00/cwt	273.00–273.00	1,876	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	420	387.10/cwt	370.00–395.00	1,626	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	400–450	413	396.00/cwt	396.00–396.00	1,635	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	570	316.42/cwt	315.00–319.00	1,804	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	455	428.93/cwt	427.50–430.00	1,952	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	525	394.27/cwt	375.00–405.00	2,070	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	529	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,746	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	598	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,794	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	627	352.11/cwt	331.00–359.00	2,208	32
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	678	302.09/cwt	285.00–315.00	2,048	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	552	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	2,015	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	625	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,750	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	845	283.66/cwt	265.00–285.25	2,397	65
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	467	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,284	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	366	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	1,647	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	734	272.92/cwt	272.50–273.00	2,003	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	450–500	469	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,923	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	550–600	585	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	2,018	38
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	650–700	697	287.50/cwt	287.50–287.50	2,004	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	534	295.68/cwt	290.00–305.00	1,579	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	428	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,605	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	518	338.29/cwt	317.00–347.50	1,752	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	368	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,509	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	489	355.00/cwt	355.00–355.00	1,736	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	586	266.96/cwt	255.00–277.50	1,564	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	625	264.34/cwt	260.00–270.00	1,652	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	613	309.72/cwt	307.50–312.50	1,899	20

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 →

Clarinda Livestock Feeder Cattle - Clarinda, IA

Thu Apr 3, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Des Moines, IA (LS-NW)

Receipts 778Last week 1,806Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
12	400–450	413	396.00	396.00
47	500–550	539	335.50	335.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	300–350	340	400.00	400.00
3	350–400	368	410.00	410.00
10	400–450	420	370.00–395.00	387.10
11	450–500	489	355.00	355.00
31	500–550	518	317.00–347.50	338.29
11	550–600	570	315.00–319.00	316.42
20	600–650	613	307.50–312.50	309.72
9	650–700	687	273.00	273.00
30	700–750	734	272.50–273.00	272.92
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	467	275.00	275.00
19	500–550	534	290.00–305.00	295.68
13	550–600	586	255.00–277.50	266.96
31	600–650	625	260.00–270.00	264.34
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	350–400	366	450.00	450.00
4	400–450	428	375.00	375.00
19	450–500	455	427.50–430.00	428.93
30	500–550	525	375.00–405.00	394.27
23	550–600	552	365.00	365.00
32	600–650	627	331.00–359.00	352.11
9	650–700	678	285.00–315.00	302.09
65	800–850	845	265.00–285.25	283.66
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	529	330.00	330.00
18	550–600	598	300.00	300.00
3	600–650	625	280.00	280.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	469	410.00	410.00
38	550–600	585	345.00	345.00
17	650–700	697	287.50	287.50

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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