Name: Denison Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-30

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Western Iowa Preconditioned Sale. Compared to the sale last week; 600-650 lbs 1.00 higher, 700-750 lbs 3.00-4.00 higher, 800-850 lbs 8.00 to sharply higher on load lots. Heifers 650 lbs steady, 700-800 lbs consisted of large groups and load lots bringing mostly12.00 higher. Many load lots of mostly yearlings in the offering, along with plenty of smaller strings. Lots of buyers in the arena, bringing good demand.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $356.73/cwt on 69 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −118.59 against this barn's trailing median of $475.32.

Average price

$356.73

69 head · 537 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,917

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+9.67

vs IA average

+8.07 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	537	356.73	1,917	69

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

16 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $506.91, low $422.43, median $475.32 across 16 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 sale69 hd

356.73

—

IA average6 barns · 1,337 hd

347.06

+9.67

National average177 barns · 23,098 hd

348.66

+8.07

This barn, trailing median16 sales

475.32

−118.59

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

25 lots · USDA AMS · Denison Livestock Feeder Cattle - Denison, 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 1	500–550	514	319.98/cwt	318.50–325.00	1,645	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	470	342.20/cwt	338.00–347.50	1,608	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	571	290.11/cwt	271.00–298.00	1,657	37
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	812	271.49/cwt	250.50–276.00	2,204	65
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	631	281.78/cwt	275.50–290.00	1,778	76
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	729	275.29/cwt	260.50–279.50	2,007	98
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	868	274.77/cwt	265.00–282.00	2,385	177
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	577	336.49/cwt	321.00–350.00	1,942	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	931	266.50/cwt	266.50–266.50	2,481	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	636	318.71/cwt	307.50–327.00	2,027	48
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	670	307.82/cwt	300.50–315.50	2,062	62
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	784	287.23/cwt	278.00–299.00	2,252	181
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	822	288.65/cwt	270.00–297.50	2,373	285
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	493	311.00/cwt	311.00–311.00	1,533	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	529	360.99/cwt	355.00–369.00	1,910	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	741	252.00/cwt	252.00–252.00	1,867	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	677	274.36/cwt	261.00–281.25	1,857	165
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	900–950	903	231.50/cwt	231.50–231.50	2,090	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	728	296.13/cwt	284.50–305.50	2,156	182
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	541	284.29/cwt	280.00–293.00	1,538	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	972	263.00/cwt	263.00–263.00	2,556	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	858	263.88/cwt	245.00–267.50	2,264	120
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	800–850	825	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	2,021	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	773	274.30/cwt	254.00–277.50	2,120	180
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	436	332.68/cwt	327.50–334.00	1,450	15

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 →

Denison Livestock Feeder Cattle - Denison, IA

Thu Jan 30, 2025

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

Receipts 2,089Last week 2,133Year ago 2,377

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
20	450–500	470	338.00–347.50	342.20
18	500–550	514	318.50–325.00	319.98
37	550–600	571	271.00–298.00	290.11
76	600–650	631	275.50–290.00	281.78
165	650–700	677	261.00–281.25	274.36
98	700–750	729	260.50–279.50	275.29
180	750–800	773	254.00–277.50	274.30
65	800–850	812	250.50–276.00	271.49
120	850–900	858	245.00–267.50	263.88
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	400–450	436	327.50–334.00	332.68
4	450–500	493	311.00	311.00
16	500–550	541	280.00–293.00	284.29
3	700–750	741	252.00	252.00
3	800–850	825	245.00	245.00
3	900–950	903	231.50	231.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
57	500–550	529	355.00–369.00	360.99
12	550–600	577	321.00–350.00	336.49
48	600–650	636	307.50–327.00	318.71
62	650–700	670	300.50–315.50	307.82
182	700–750	728	284.50–305.50	296.13
181	750–800	784	278.00–299.00	287.23
285	800–850	822	270.00–297.50	288.65
177	850–900	868	265.00–282.00	274.77
33	900–950	931	266.50	266.50
32	950–1000	972	263.00	263.00

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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