Name: Denison Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-02-13
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-13

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Special Calf & Yearling Sale. No comparison, as the previous sale was Preconditioned. CME feeder cattle futures up 3.00 today. Many load lots of mostly yearlings, along with plenty of smaller packages in the offering today. Crowd was small today but demand was good throughout the sale.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $345.39/cwt on 69 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −129.92 against this barn's trailing median of $475.32.

Average price

$345.39

69 head · 551 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,904

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−0.66

vs IA average

+6.72 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	551	345.39	1,904	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

345.39

—

IA average4 barns · 365 hd

346.06

−0.66

National average155 barns · 9,244 hd

338.67

+6.72

This barn, trailing median16 sales

475.32

−129.92

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

28 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	450–500	473	318.84/cwt	308.00–335.00	1,508	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	419	333.01/cwt	325.00–354.00	1,395	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	767	259.75/cwt	245.00–265.50	1,992	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	661	293.48/cwt	287.75–307.00	1,940	61
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	564	310.61/cwt	298.00–324.00	1,752	94
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	608	295.83/cwt	283.00–304.00	1,799	98
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	567	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,899	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	528	343.36/cwt	340.00–345.00	1,813	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	831	272.27/cwt	259.00–279.75	2,263	157
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	558	343.89/cwt	342.50–345.00	1,919	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	620	325.21/cwt	305.50–337.50	2,016	114
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	657	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,846	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	663	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,790	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	606	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,636	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	800–850	844	252.00/cwt	252.00–252.00	2,127	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	925	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	2,451	165
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	741	293.17/cwt	270.00–296.50	2,172	190
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	874	270.06/cwt	259.50–274.00	2,360	207
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	838	259.94/cwt	246.00–260.50	2,178	100
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	566	275.40/cwt	270.00–281.00	1,559	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	756	294.30/cwt	287.50–295.00	2,225	109
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	542	353.50/cwt	353.50–353.50	1,916	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	413	317.50/cwt	317.50–317.50	1,311	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	718	272.93/cwt	255.50–276.00	1,960	165
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	500–550	538	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,506	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	563	288.00/cwt	288.00–288.00	1,621	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	470	354.37/cwt	340.00–366.00	1,666	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	675	302.03/cwt	297.50–309.00	2,039	123

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 Feb 13, 2025

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

Receipts 2,008Last week 1,988Year 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	400–450	419	325.00–354.00	333.01
15	450–500	473	308.00–335.00	318.84
94	550–600	564	298.00–324.00	310.61
98	600–650	608	283.00–304.00	295.83
61	650–700	661	287.75–307.00	293.48
165	700–750	718	255.50–276.00	272.93
57	750–800	767	245.00–265.50	259.75
100	800–850	838	246.00–260.50	259.94
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	413	317.50	317.50
10	550–600	566	270.00–281.00	275.40
3	600–650	606	270.00	270.00
5	650–700	663	270.00	270.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	538	280.00	280.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	550–600	563	288.00	288.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
9	500–550	528	340.00–345.00	343.36
4	550–600	567	335.00	335.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
14	450–500	470	340.00–366.00	354.37
15	500–550	542	353.50	353.50
41	550–600	558	342.50–345.00	343.89
114	600–650	620	305.50–337.50	325.21
123	650–700	675	297.50–309.00	302.03
190	700–750	741	270.00–296.50	293.17
109	750–800	756	287.50–295.00	294.30
157	800–850	831	259.00–279.75	272.27
207	850–900	874	259.50–274.00	270.06
165	900–950	925	265.00	265.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	650–700	657	281.00	281.00
9	800–850	844	252.00	252.00

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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