Sale reports / Iowa / Creston Livestock Auction / 2025-04-23

Creston Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Creston, Iowa · Wed, Apr 23
● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2160
Receipts
1,586 head
46 vs last sale 1,632 1,586 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison stated today to the previous feeder calf/yearling auction in early April. Available today were truckload lots of quality, green yearling cattle. Internet bidding very active in today's sale. Today's offering saw many quality, home raised, double vaccinated feeder steers and heifers with quality replacements available. Demand was very good. Active trade.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $380.92/cwt on 78 head. That ranks 1 of 10 comparable sales and sits 105.84 against this barn's trailing median of $486.76.
Average price
$380.92
78 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,092
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$33
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$17.52/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+6.28
vs IA average
+6.90 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1546384.522,09862
Medium and Large 1-2563367.002,06516thin
One grade step is worth $17.52/cwt here — about $33 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

10 sales
518497477457median 486.7601/0701/2103/1104/0805/20
Steers 500–600 lb: high $503.62, low $471.06, median $486.76 across 10 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 sale78 hd
380.92
IA average6 barns · 1,119 hd
374.64
+6.28
National average172 barns · 11,123 hd
374.02
+6.90
This barn, trailing median10 sales
486.76
−105.84
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.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersMedium and Large 1350–400365440.00/cwt440.00–440.001,6067
HeifersMedium and Large 1550–600565333.30/cwt332.00–335.001,88314
HeifersMedium and Large 1450–500459370.64/cwt363.00–384.001,70117
HeifersMedium and Large 1500–550517349.93/cwt343.00–356.501,80924
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700659301.41/cwt298.00–303.501,98626
HeifersMedium and Large 1700–750743274.87/cwt271.00–277.502,04237
SteersMedium and Large 1750–800764290.50/cwt290.50–290.502,2198
SteersMedium and Large 1500–550513398.81/cwt384.00–406.002,04627
SteersMedium and Large 1-2500–550543374.00/cwt374.00–374.002,0319
SteersMedium and Large 1-2550–600588358.00/cwt358.00–358.002,1057
SteersMedium and Large 1400–450420424.00/cwt424.00–424.001,7815
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750719298.17/cwt292.00–300.502,14411
SteersMedium and Large 1900–950918281.66/cwt278.85–286.002,586175
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700658339.50/cwt339.50–339.502,2345
HeifersMedium and Large 1800–850849267.12/cwt263.50–267.752,26874
HeifersMedium and Large 1750–800779274.15/cwt273.25–275.502,136102
SteersMedium and Large 1850–900888286.31/cwt283.75–288.752,542194
SteersMedium and Large 1350–400395428.00/cwt428.00–428.001,6913
SteersMedium and Large 1550–600571373.49/cwt368.00–379.002,13335
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650646326.00/cwt326.00–326.002,1068
HeifersMedium and Large 1850–900868265.73/cwt265.00–266.502,307144
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650611319.49/cwt307.00–321.751,95241
SteersMedium and Large 1450–500469396.19/cwt390.00–401.001,8589
SteersMedium and Large 1600–650638343.40/cwt333.00–363.502,19141
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2600–650600300.00/cwt300.00–300.001,8004
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2550–600591319.00/cwt319.00–319.001,8855

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.