Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-09-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-09-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday Choice steers were 4.25 to 4.50 lower and the Choice heifers were 5.00 lower. Active trade today with one packer returning after the plant fire in Kansas back on August 8th. We had an active market with these lower prices.

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 and Choice	Average	1,215	70.00	851	1thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,268	96.71	1,226	79
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,108	92.82	1,029	13
Heifers	Select	Average	1,428	77.63	1,109	18
Steers	Choice	Average	1,374	97.76	1,343	62
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,239	92.24	1,143	11

Every lot, as filed

10 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
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,057	93.85/cwt	88.00–103.00	992	8
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,190	91.16/cwt	88.50–92.25	1,085	5
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,128	87.75/cwt	87.75–87.75	990	2
Dairy Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,215	70.00/cwt	70.00–70.00	851	1
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,510	75.13/cwt	74.50–76.00	1,134	14
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,141	91.87/cwt	89.50–94.00	1,048	5
Heifers	Select	—	1,155	85.00/cwt	85.00–85.00	982	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,321	92.54/cwt	92.00–94.24	1,222	6
Heifers	Choice	—	1,268	96.71/cwt	94.00–98.50	1,226	79
Steers	Choice	—	1,374	97.76/cwt	94.00–99.85	1,343	62

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

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Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,057	88.00–103.00	93.85
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,190	88.50–92.25	91.16
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,128	87.75	87.75
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,510	74.50–76.00	75.13
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,155	85.00	85.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
79	—	1,268	94.00–98.50	96.71
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,215	70.00	70.00
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,141	89.50–94.00	91.87
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,321	92.00–94.24	92.54
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
62	—	1,374	94.00–99.85	97.76

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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