Name: Denison Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-02-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-20

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Western Iowa Preconditioned Sale. No comparison, as the previous sale was not Preconditioned. CME feeder cattle futures down 2.00 today. Many load lots of yearlings steers, along with plenty of smaller packages in the offering. Demand good throughout the sale.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $338.19/cwt on 82 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −137.12 against this barn's trailing median of $475.32.

Average price

$338.19

82 head · 556 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,880

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$34

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

$29.63/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.04

vs IA average

−3.02 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	546	345.78	1,887	61
Medium and Large 1-2	586	316.15	1,853	21

One grade step is worth $29.63/cwt here — about $34 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

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 sale82 hd

338.19

—

IA average6 barns · 717 hd

338.15

+0.04

National average106 barns · 4,665 hd

341.21

−3.02

This barn, trailing median16 sales

475.32

−137.12

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

30 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
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	705	264.50/cwt	264.50–264.50	1,865	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	387	363.33/cwt	360.00–365.00	1,406	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	671	268.70/cwt	260.00–275.00	1,803	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	586	316.15/cwt	305.00–325.00	1,853	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	383	344.60/cwt	337.50–350.00	1,320	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	464	339.55/cwt	323.00–348.00	1,576	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	723	257.05/cwt	247.00–261.00	1,858	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	539	316.81/cwt	299.00–330.00	1,708	40
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	928	234.00/cwt	230.00–237.25	2,172	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	822	248.92/cwt	243.00–254.00	2,046	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	621	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,733	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	750–800	792	255.00/cwt	255.00–255.00	2,020	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	531	347.49/cwt	340.00–369.00	1,845	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	632	303.94/cwt	291.50–307.50	1,921	89
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	731	291.13/cwt	283.00–295.00	2,128	104
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	662	301.22/cwt	287.50–305.50	1,994	113
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	917	250.64/cwt	240.00–263.00	2,298	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	578	342.01/cwt	332.50–362.00	1,977	19
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,022	244.00/cwt	244.00–244.00	2,494	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	869	263.46/cwt	255.75–269.00	2,289	114
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	962	255.93/cwt	250.00–257.50	2,462	171
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	842	278.53/cwt	266.50–280.50	2,345	242
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	772	285.51/cwt	269.50–295.00	2,204	305
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	479	357.78/cwt	347.00–372.00	1,714	29
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	589	293.30/cwt	279.00–296.50	1,728	60
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	770	252.31/cwt	246.00–253.75	1,943	85
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	621	285.03/cwt	268.00–296.50	1,770	105
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	674	272.36/cwt	265.50–282.00	1,836	139
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	687	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,718	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	523	297.50/cwt	297.50–297.50	1,556	6

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 20, 2025

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

Receipts 2,213Last week 2,008Year ago 2,209

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	350–400	387	360.00–365.00	363.33
21	550–600	586	305.00–325.00	316.15
3	600–650	621	279.00	279.00
12	650–700	671	260.00–275.00	268.70
6	700–750	705	264.50	264.50
5	750–800	792	255.00	255.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
29	450–500	479	347.00–372.00	357.78
42	500–550	531	340.00–369.00	347.49
19	550–600	578	332.50–362.00	342.01
89	600–650	632	291.50–307.50	303.94
113	650–700	662	287.50–305.50	301.22
104	700–750	731	283.00–295.00	291.13
305	750–800	772	269.50–295.00	285.51
242	800–850	842	266.50–280.50	278.53
114	850–900	869	255.75–269.00	263.46
18	900–950	917	240.00–263.00	250.64
171	950–1000	962	250.00–257.50	255.93
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	1000–1050	1,022	244.00	244.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	383	337.50–350.00	344.60
32	450–500	464	323.00–348.00	339.55
40	500–550	539	299.00–330.00	316.81
60	550–600	589	279.00–296.50	293.30
105	600–650	621	268.00–296.50	285.03
139	650–700	674	265.50–282.00	272.36
39	700–750	723	247.00–261.00	257.05
85	750–800	770	246.00–253.75	252.31
73	800–850	822	243.00–254.00	248.92
57	900–950	928	230.00–237.25	234.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	500–550	523	297.50	297.50
5	650–700	687	250.00	250.00

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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