Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-09-22
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-09-22

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday steers were steady, heifers .40 lower. Light offerings were 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
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,240	100.05	1,241	65
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,234	90.71	1,119	15
Heifers	Select	Average	1,343	76.75	1,031	9thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,349	101.35	1,367	81
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,346	89.90	1,210	18
Steers	Select	Average	1,468	79.77	1,171	11

Every lot, as filed

13 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 ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,665	81.75/cwt	80.00–85.00	1,361	3
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,360	91.37/cwt	90.00–95.00	1,243	4
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,198	77.75/cwt	72.50–80.00	931	6
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,633	74.75/cwt	71.00–77.00	1,221	3
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,188	100.47/cwt	97.00–106.50	1,194	15
Heifers	Choice	—	1,256	99.93/cwt	97.00–102.00	1,255	50
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,009	93.74/cwt	87.00–95.00	946	8
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,564	90.16/cwt	87.00–94.00	1,410	7
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,215	80.34/cwt	77.00–83.00	976	3
Steers	Select	—	1,563	79.56/cwt	74.50–83.50	1,244	8
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,257	101.85/cwt	96.00–111.00	1,280	46
Steers	Choice	—	1,469	100.70/cwt	95.00–105.00	1,479	35
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,208	89.73/cwt	86.00–95.00	1,084	11

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 22, 2020

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

Receipts 221Last week 457Year ago 165

Compared to last Tuesday steers were steady, heifers .40 lower. Light offerings were met with good demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,665	80.00–85.00	81.75
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,360	90.00–95.00	91.37
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,198	72.50–80.00	77.75
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,633	71.00–77.00	74.75
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,188	97.00–106.50	100.47
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	1,256	97.00–102.00	99.93
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,009	87.00–95.00	93.74
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,564	87.00–94.00	90.16
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,215	77.00–83.00	80.34
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,563	74.50–83.50	79.56
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
46	—	1,257	96.00–111.00	101.85
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,469	95.00–105.00	100.70
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,208	86.00–95.00	89.73

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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