Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-12-15
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-12-15

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 1.5 higher, choice heifers 1.6 higher. 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	1,243	103.49	1,287	59
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,055	93.54	987	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,404	104.24	1,463	206
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,354	95.64	1,295	11
Steers	Select	Average	1,330	88.97	1,184	3thin

Every lot, as filed

10 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	—	1,213	104.83/cwt	100.00–110.25	1,272	57
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,186	103.39/cwt	99.50–107.00	1,226	36
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,787	99.49/cwt	98.00–100.50	1,778	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,470	104.11/cwt	101.50–105.00	1,530	146
Heifers	Choice	—	1,333	103.64/cwt	101.00–104.10	1,382	23
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,210	94.91/cwt	94.50–95.50	1,148	6
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,055	93.54/cwt	91.50–95.00	987	5
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,526	96.51/cwt	94.00–100.25	1,473	5
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,228	88.45/cwt	87.00–90.00	1,086	2
Steers	Select	—	1,535	90.00/cwt	90.00–90.00	1,382	1

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 15, 2020

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 were 1.5 higher, choice heifers 1.6 higher. 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
57	—	1,213	100.00–110.25	104.83
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,787	98.00–100.50	99.49
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
146	—	1,470	101.50–105.00	104.11
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,210	94.50–95.50	94.91
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,526	94.00–100.25	96.51
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,228	87.00–90.00	88.45
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,535	90.00	90.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,186	99.50–107.00	103.39
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,333	101.00–104.10	103.64
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,055	91.50–95.00	93.54

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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