Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-08-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-08-20

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 2.50 to 2.75 higher with the choice heifers 1.75 to 2.00 higher. Not enough dairy steers for a market test. Downward pressure continues due to Tyson's absence at this auction after the Holcomb plant fire. There was an unusual supply of lighter weight Bulls that returned to feed.

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	1,092	92.98	1,015	50
Dairy Steers	Select	Average	1,375	68.00	935	1thin
Dairy Steers	Standard	Average	1,125	67.00	754	2thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,227	104.95	1,288	42
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,138	102.56	1,167	7thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,351	105.39	1,424	48
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,136	103.70	1,178	9thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,236	93.84	1,160	12

Every lot, as filed

11 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	—	1,145	98.97/cwt	98.00–100.00	1,133	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,351	105.39/cwt	104.00–106.75	1,424	48
Dairy Steers	StandardReturn to Feed	—	1,125	67.00/cwt	67.00–67.00	754	2
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,215	102.00/cwt	102.00–102.00	1,239	2
Dairy Steers	Select	—	1,375	68.00/cwt	68.00–68.00	935	1
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,107	102.79/cwt	102.00–103.50	1,138	5
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,000	104.17/cwt	101.00–108.00	1,042	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,227	104.95/cwt	104.00–106.00	1,288	42
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,204	103.47/cwt	102.00–104.00	1,246	6
Bulls	—Return to Feed	—	1,092	92.98/cwt	75.50–97.50	1,015	50
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,254	92.81/cwt	85.00–100.00	1,164	10

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 20, 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$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,145	98.00–100.00	98.97
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
48	—	1,351	104.00–106.75	105.39
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,000	101.00–108.00	104.17
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,204	102.00–104.00	103.47
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,254	85.00–100.00	92.81
Dairy Steers — Standard · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,125	67.00	67.00
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,375	68.00	68.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,215	102.00	102.00
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,107	102.00–103.50	102.79
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
42	—	1,227	104.00–106.00	104.95
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	1,092	75.50–97.50	92.98

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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