Name: Creston Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-02

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison stated today as the previous auction was in early March. In today's moderate supply were load lots of quality, reputation yearling cattle. Also home-raised, LTW'd, high quality feeder steer and heifer calves were in the offering. Demand was very good. Trade was active.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $330.98/cwt on 152 head. That ranks 1 of 12 comparable sales and sits −87.30 against this barn's trailing median of $418.27.

Average price

$330.98

152 head · 553 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,831

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$74

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

$25.25/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.71

vs IA average

+9.60 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	550	335.13	1,842	127
Medium and Large 1-2	570	309.88	1,768	25

One grade step is worth $25.25/cwt here — about $74 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

12 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $456.14, low $383.09, median $418.27 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 sale152 hd

330.98

—

IA average5 barns · 546 hd

330.26

+0.71

National average178 barns · 12,751 hd

321.38

+9.60

This barn, trailing median12 sales

418.27

−87.30

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

26 lots · USDA AMS · Creston Livestock Feeder Cattle - Creston, 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	750–800	795	301.16/cwt	294.00–301.50	2,394	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	410	454.00/cwt	454.00–454.00	1,861	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	915	271.52/cwt	270.00–273.35	2,484	127
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	332	419.00/cwt	419.00–419.00	1,391	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	398	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,632	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	667	308.00/cwt	308.00–308.00	2,054	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	491	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,719	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	633	308.44/cwt	298.00–311.00	1,952	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	578	321.22/cwt	316.00–339.00	1,857	55
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	620	348.44/cwt	342.50–350.50	2,160	56
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	590	357.56/cwt	347.00–375.00	2,110	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	669	346.50/cwt	346.50–346.50	2,318	20
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	951	265.75/cwt	265.75–265.75	2,527	65
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	821	285.99/cwt	277.50–291.75	2,348	92
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	724	279.08/cwt	275.00–286.50	2,021	99
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	948	243.10/cwt	243.10–243.10	2,305	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	451	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,804	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	527	388.61/cwt	378.00–400.00	2,048	35
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	846	265.44/cwt	264.00–265.60	2,246	72
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	778	271.88/cwt	270.25–277.00	2,115	140
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	870	265.25/cwt	265.25–265.25	2,308	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	528	345.76/cwt	338.00–365.00	1,826	72
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	734	314.02/cwt	306.00–318.00	2,305	48
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	563	332.00/cwt	332.00–332.00	1,869	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	512	333.00/cwt	333.00–333.00	1,705	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	598	299.00/cwt	299.00–299.00	1,788	17

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 →

Creston Livestock Feeder Cattle - Creston, IA

Wed Apr 2, 2025

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

Receipts 1,632Last week 2,077Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	410	454.00	454.00
4	450–500	451	400.00	400.00
35	500–550	527	378.00–400.00	388.61
50	550–600	590	347.00–375.00	357.56
56	600–650	620	342.50–350.50	348.44
20	650–700	669	346.50	346.50
48	700–750	734	306.00–318.00	314.02
63	750–800	795	294.00–301.50	301.16
92	800–850	821	277.50–291.75	285.99
127	900–950	915	270.00–273.35	271.52
65	950–1000	951	265.75	265.75
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	550–600	563	332.00	332.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	300–350	332	419.00	419.00
5	350–400	398	410.00	410.00
17	450–500	491	350.00	350.00
72	500–550	528	338.00–365.00	345.76
55	550–600	578	316.00–339.00	321.22
25	600–650	633	298.00–311.00	308.44
15	650–700	667	308.00	308.00
99	700–750	724	275.00–286.50	279.08
140	750–800	778	270.25–277.00	271.88
72	800–850	846	264.00–265.60	265.44
64	850–900	870	265.25	265.25
58	900–950	948	243.10	243.10
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	500–550	512	333.00	333.00
17	550–600	598	299.00	299.00

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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