Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-07-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-07-02

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers and heifers were steady to 1.00 higher with a very limited supply.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt

Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Bulls	—	Average	1,085	81.00	879	1thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,282	110.07	1,411	16
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,137	104.49	1,188	3thin
Heifers	Select	Average	959	101.76	976	29
Steers	Choice	Average	1,353	109.20	1,477	19
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,255	103.52	1,299	4thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,187	99.71	1,184	7thin

Every lot, as filed

9 lots · USDA AMS · Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, 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
Bulls	—Return to Feed	—	1,085	81.00/cwt	81.00–81.00	879	1
Steers	Select	—	1,350	94.05/cwt	90.00–95.50	1,270	4
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	970	107.26/cwt	103.50–109.00	1,040	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,282	110.07/cwt	107.50–111.75	1,411	16
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,255	103.52/cwt	100.50–106.00	1,299	4
Heifers	Select	—	1,320	78.83/cwt	76.00–82.00	1,041	2
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	932	103.46/cwt	93.00–117.50	964	27
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,137	104.49/cwt	103.50–107.00	1,188	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,353	109.20/cwt	106.75–111.25	1,477	19

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.

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Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jul 2, 2019

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

Receipts 90Last week 138Year ago 0

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers and heifers were steady to 1.00 higher with a very limited supply.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,085	81.00	81.00
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,350	90.00–95.50	94.05
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	970	103.50–109.00	107.26
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,255	100.50–106.00	103.52
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,353	106.75–111.25	109.20
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,282	107.50–111.75	110.07
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,320	76.00–82.00	78.83
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	932	93.00–117.50	103.46
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,137	103.50–107.00	104.49

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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