Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-08-06
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-08-06

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday, choice steers were 1.50 lower with the choice heifers 1.25 lower. No Holstein steers to report today. Quality today was down from last weeks exceptional quality.

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
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,187	112.49	1,335	61
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,141	109.27	1,247	11
Heifers	Select	Average	1,169	94.36	1,103	59
Steers	Choice	Average	1,363	113.07	1,541	94
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,348	108.31	1,460	27
Steers	Select	Average	1,122	107.39	1,205	9thin

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
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,604	109.75/cwt	109.75–109.75	1,760	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,352	113.22/cwt	111.50–115.00	1,531	90
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,141	109.27/cwt	108.00–110.50	1,247	11
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,032	105.10/cwt	101.00–105.25	1,085	32
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,348	108.31/cwt	103.00–111.25	1,460	27
Heifers	Select	—	1,331	81.63/cwt	71.00–100.00	1,086	27
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,067	111.38/cwt	110.75–112.00	1,188	6
Heifers	Choice	—	1,187	112.49/cwt	110.75–113.75	1,335	61
Steers	Select	—	1,233	99.41/cwt	90.00–104.00	1,226	3

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 Aug 6, 2019

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

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Compared to last Tuesday, choice steers were 1.50 lower with the choice heifers 1.25 lower. No Holstein steers to report today. Quality today was down from last weeks exceptional quality.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,604	109.75	109.75
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
90	—	1,352	111.50–115.00	113.22
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,348	103.00–111.25	108.31
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,067	110.75–112.00	111.38
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,233	90.00–104.00	99.41
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,141	108.00–110.50	109.27
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	1,032	101.00–105.25	105.10
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,331	71.00–100.00	81.63
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
61	—	1,187	110.75–113.75	112.49

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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