Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-09-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-09-24

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday Choice steers and Heifers were 3.00 to 4.00 higher. Quality today did not equal last week, with smaller lots.

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	1,315	80.00	1,052	1thin
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,122	103.93	1,166	30
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,241	102.79	1,276	45
Heifers	Select	Average	1,433	83.62	1,198	6thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,308	103.97	1,360	56
Steers	Select	Average	1,180	103.48	1,222	10
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,404	99.00	1,390	10

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	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,188	106.22/cwt	102.00–107.25	1,262	12
Heifers	Choice	—	1,241	102.79/cwt	100.00–104.50	1,276	45
Steers	Select	—	1,030	90.50/cwt	90.50–90.50	932	1
Heifers	Select	—	1,349	90.13/cwt	90.00–90.50	1,216	3
Steers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,630	96.00/cwt	96.00–96.00	1,565	1
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,517	77.11/cwt	75.00–80.00	1,170	3
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,143	106.04/cwt	97.00–108.50	1,212	8
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,228	95.86/cwt	90.00–99.50	1,177	6
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,404	99.00/cwt	99.00–99.00	1,390	10
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,095	105.95/cwt	102.00–112.00	1,160	24
Dairy Steers	Select	—	1,315	80.00/cwt	80.00–80.00	1,052	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,341	103.36/cwt	101.00–107.25	1,386	44

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 24, 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 3.00 to 4.00 higher. Quality today did not equal last week, with smaller lots.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,188	102.00–107.25	106.22
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,030	90.50	90.50
Steers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,630	96.00	96.00
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,143	97.00–108.50	106.04
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,404	99.00	99.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
44	—	1,341	101.00–107.25	103.36
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,241	100.00–104.50	102.79
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,349	90.00–90.50	90.13
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,517	75.00–80.00	77.11
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,228	90.00–99.50	95.86
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,095	102.00–112.00	105.95
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,315	80.00	80.00

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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