Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-07-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-07-16

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday, choice steers were 1.00 higher with the choice heifers .50 higher. Not enough Holstein steers last week for a comparison today. In both steers and heifers the extreme top was on the heavier weights.

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
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,394	81.59	1,137	34
Dairy Steers	Select	Average	1,256	73.04	917	6thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,244	110.10	1,369	53
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,204	104.25	1,255	8thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,455	81.29	1,183	4thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,395	111.36	1,553	73
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,269	105.10	1,334	32
Steers	Select	Average	1,406	97.61	1,372	60

Every lot, as filed

16 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
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,139	105.46/cwt	102.00–112.00	1,201	17
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,707	113.00/cwt	113.00–113.00	1,929	9
Heifers	Choice	—	1,291	110.68/cwt	106.50–114.00	1,429	42
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,394	81.59/cwt	81.00–83.75	1,137	34
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,020	107.00/cwt	107.00–107.00	1,091	1
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,063	107.90/cwt	106.75–109.50	1,147	11
Dairy Steers	Select	—	1,256	73.04/cwt	67.00–74.75	917	6
Steers	Select	—	1,402	98.47/cwt	93.50–101.50	1,381	54
Heifers	Select	—	1,455	81.29/cwt	77.00–84.00	1,183	4
Steers	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,640	103.00/cwt	103.00–103.00	1,689	1
Steers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,505	89.00/cwt	89.00–89.00	1,339	5
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,268	103.25/cwt	101.00–104.50	1,309	6
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,115	94.00/cwt	94.00–94.00	1,048	1
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,010	107.25/cwt	106.50–108.00	1,083	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,400	104.81/cwt	102.00–107.00	1,467	14
Steers	Choice	—	1,356	111.20/cwt	107.00–113.00	1,508	63

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 →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jul 16, 2019

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

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Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,139	102.00–112.00	105.46
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,707	113.00	113.00
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,020	107.00	107.00
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,402	93.50–101.50	98.47
Steers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,640	103.00	103.00
Steers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,505	89.00	89.00
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,115	94.00	94.00
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,400	102.00–107.00	104.81
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
63	—	1,356	107.00–113.00	111.20
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
42	—	1,291	106.50–114.00	110.68
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,063	106.75–109.50	107.90
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,455	77.00–84.00	81.29
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,268	101.00–104.50	103.25
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,010	106.50–108.00	107.25
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,394	81.00–83.75	81.59
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,256	67.00–74.75	73.04

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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