Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-10-27
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-10-27

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to two weeks ago steers were 4.5 lower, heifers 3.00 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
Bulls	—	Average	1,281	82.00	1,050	4thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,333	100.81	1,344	91
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,324	88.19	1,168	7thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,154	78.63	908	7thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,454	101.22	1,472	130
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,370	90.48	1,239	4thin

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
Bulls	—Return to Feed	—	1,281	82.00/cwt	82.00–82.00	1,050	4
Heifers	Select	—	1,413	77.24/cwt	74.00–80.50	1,091	2
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,051	79.19/cwt	74.00–82.00	832	5
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,413	90.47/cwt	85.00–93.50	1,278	3
Heifers	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,595	86.52/cwt	82.00–90.00	1,380	3
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,121	89.44/cwt	85.50–94.00	1,003	4
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,240	90.50/cwt	90.50–90.50	1,122	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,386	101.00/cwt	95.25–104.00	1,400	70
Steers	Choice	—	1,470	101.44/cwt	97.00–104.75	1,491	123
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,158	100.18/cwt	98.50–105.00	1,160	21
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,180	97.43/cwt	96.50–100.00	1,150	7

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 Oct 27, 2020

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

Receipts 267Last week 297Year ago 267

Compared to two weeks ago steers were 4.5 lower, heifers 3.00 lower. Light offerings were met with good demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,281	82.00	82.00
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,413	74.00–80.50	77.24
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,051	74.00–82.00	79.19
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,595	82.00–90.00	86.52
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,121	85.50–94.00	89.44
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
70	—	1,386	95.25–104.00	101.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,158	98.50–105.00	100.18
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,413	85.00–93.50	90.47
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,240	90.50	90.50
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
123	—	1,470	97.00–104.75	101.44
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,180	96.50–100.00	97.43

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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