Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-09-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-09-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to two weeks ago Choice steers and heifers were 2.50 lower. This market was not covered last week. Quality of today cattle was not as high as on normal sales.

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	Select	Average	1,190	72.00	857	2thin
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	998	109.03	1,088	13
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,231	101.71	1,253	78
Heifers	Select	Average	1,273	82.56	1,051	14
Steers	Select	Average	1,016	105.50	1,072	9thin
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,099	104.94	1,153	28
Steers	Choice	Average	1,319	102.27	1,349	93

Every lot, as filed

12 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 ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,845	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,716	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,331	102.14/cwt	100.00–103.75	1,359	85
Heifers	Choice	—	1,234	101.70/cwt	100.00–102.75	1,255	75
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,194	103.64/cwt	102.50–104.00	1,237	8
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,168	102.00/cwt	102.00–102.00	1,191	3
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,016	105.50/cwt	87.50–124.00	1,072	9
Heifers	Select	—	1,330	80.30/cwt	69.00–91.00	1,068	11
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,064	90.83/cwt	85.00–109.00	966	3
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,071	105.38/cwt	83.00–109.85	1,129	27
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,040	91.00/cwt	91.00–91.00	946	1
Dairy Steers	Select	—	1,190	72.00/cwt	72.00–72.00	857	2
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	994	110.53/cwt	95.00–112.00	1,099	12

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 Sep 3, 2019

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

Receipts 257Last week 179Year ago 0

Compared to two weeks ago Choice steers and heifers were 2.50 lower. This market was not covered last week. Quality of today cattle was not as high as on normal sales.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,845	93.00	93.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
85	—	1,331	100.00–103.75	102.14
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,194	102.50–104.00	103.64
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,016	87.50–124.00	105.50
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,071	83.00–109.85	105.38
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
75	—	1,234	100.00–102.75	101.70
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,168	102.00	102.00
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,330	69.00–91.00	80.30
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,064	85.00–109.00	90.83
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,040	91.00	91.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	994	95.00–112.00	110.53
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,190	72.00	72.00

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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