Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-06-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-06-16

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday steers were 5.75 lower, heifers 5.5 lower. Moderate offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

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	Choice	Average	1,238	99.18	1,228	101
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,085	86.75	941	11
Steers	Choice	Average	1,343	100.47	1,349	159
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,270	88.99	1,130	8thin

Every lot, as filed

8 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	—	1,173	98.99/cwt	94.00–100.00	1,161	27
Steers	Choice	—	1,378	100.77/cwt	95.00–104.00	1,389	132
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	938	87.67/cwt	83.00–90.00	822	3
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,469	89.78/cwt	84.00–93.00	1,319	5
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,035	85.81/cwt	82.00–90.00	888	9
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,310	91.00/cwt	91.00–91.00	1,192	2
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,144	95.50/cwt	95.50–95.50	1,093	5
Heifers	Choice	—	1,243	99.37/cwt	94.00–103.00	1,235	96

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 Jun 16, 2020

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

Receipts 298Last week 122Year ago 251

Compared to last Tuesday steers were 5.75 lower, heifers 5.5 lower. Moderate offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,173	94.00–100.00	98.99
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
132	—	1,378	95.00–104.00	100.77
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	938	83.00–90.00	87.67
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,469	84.00–93.00	89.78
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,035	82.00–90.00	85.81
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,310	91.00	91.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,144	95.50	95.50
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
96	—	1,243	94.00–103.00	99.37

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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