Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-12-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-12-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday; steers were 1.5 higher, heifers were 2.5 higher. Moderate offering of good quality cattle was met with good demand.

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	1,128	91.70	1,034	6thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,410	82.83	1,168	18
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,304	115.60	1,507	202
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,152	100.76	1,160	19
Steers	Prime	Average	1,524	119.08	1,815	26
Steers	Choice	Average	1,418	113.39	1,608	122
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,166	102.12	1,190	9thin

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
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,410	82.83/cwt	81.00–84.50	1,168	18
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,089	100.51/cwt	96.00–102.00	1,095	4
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,227	103.40/cwt	101.00–106.50	1,269	5
Steers	Prime	—	1,524	119.08/cwt	118.50–119.25	1,815	26
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,203	113.18/cwt	110.00–115.50	1,362	10
Steers	Choice	—	1,437	113.41/cwt	108.50–117.00	1,630	112
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	986	101.05/cwt	98.50–105.00	996	9
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,301	100.49/cwt	95.50–103.25	1,307	10
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	943	118.77/cwt	110.00–122.00	1,120	31
Heifers	Choice	—	1,369	115.02/cwt	108.00–117.85	1,575	171
Bulls	—Return to Feed	—	1,128	91.70/cwt	87.00–92.50	1,034	6

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 Dec 3, 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; steers were 1.5 higher, heifers were 2.5 higher. Moderate offering of good quality cattle was met with good demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,410	81.00–84.50	82.83
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,089	96.00–102.00	100.51
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,227	101.00–106.50	103.40
Steers — Prime$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,524	118.50–119.25	119.08
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,203	110.00–115.50	113.18
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
112	—	1,437	108.50–117.00	113.41
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	986	98.50–105.00	101.05
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,301	95.50–103.25	100.49
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	943	110.00–122.00	118.77
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
171	—	1,369	108.00–117.85	115.02
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,128	87.00–92.50	91.70

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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