Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-09-17
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-09-17

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday Choice steers and Heifers were mostly steady with a slight increase in buyer interests.

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	Select	Average	976	99.77	974	34
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,260	97.29	1,226	60
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,017	91.76	933	4thin
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,224	98.27	1,203	25
Steers	Choice	Average	1,362	97.77	1,332	58

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
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,705	95.25/cwt	95.25–95.25	1,624	4
Heifers	Choice	—	1,260	97.29/cwt	94.00–99.25	1,226	60
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,143	96.70/cwt	96.00–97.25	1,105	4
Heifers	Select	—	1,389	82.16/cwt	69.00–88.00	1,141	4
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,406	94.48/cwt	93.50–95.25	1,328	7
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	921	102.12/cwt	70.00–120.50	941	30
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,153	99.75/cwt	95.50–105.50	1,150	18
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,120	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,042	1
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	983	91.34/cwt	85.50–95.50	898	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,352	98.06/cwt	94.50–99.25	1,326	50

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 17, 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 and Heifers were mostly steady with a slight increase in buyer interests.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,705	95.25	95.25
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,143	96.00–97.25	96.70
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,406	93.50–95.25	94.48
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,153	95.50–105.50	99.75
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	1,352	94.50–99.25	98.06
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
60	—	1,260	94.00–99.25	97.29
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,389	69.00–88.00	82.16
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	921	70.00–120.50	102.12
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,120	93.00	93.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	983	85.50–95.50	91.34

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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