Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-01-05
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-01-05

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

There is no comparison, as this is the first sale in several weeks. 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
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,735	85.69	1,487	4thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,297	108.12	1,402	205
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,198	96.99	1,162	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,443	109.00	1,572	79
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,397	97.55	1,362	14
Steers	Select	Average	1,480	83.78	1,240	5thin

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	—	1,286	106.75/cwt	104.00–110.00	1,373	23
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,195	104.64/cwt	103.50–106.00	1,250	19
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,735	85.69/cwt	85.00–86.50	1,487	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,507	109.92/cwt	105.00–111.00	1,656	56
Heifers	Choice	—	1,307	108.48/cwt	104.00–110.60	1,418	186
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,272	96.71/cwt	92.00–102.00	1,230	6
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,198	96.99/cwt	95.00–99.50	1,162	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,490	98.18/cwt	94.50–102.00	1,463	8
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,345	81.81/cwt	80.00–84.50	1,100	3
Steers	Select	—	1,683	86.73/cwt	83.50–90.00	1,460	2

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.

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jan 5, 2021

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

Receipts 347Last week 308Year ago 402

There is no comparison, as this is the first sale in several weeks. 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
23	—	1,286	104.00–110.00	106.75
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
56	—	1,507	105.00–111.00	109.92
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,272	92.00–102.00	96.71
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,490	94.50–102.00	98.18
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,345	80.00–84.50	81.81
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,683	83.50–90.00	86.73
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,195	103.50–106.00	104.64
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
186	—	1,307	104.00–110.60	108.48
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,198	95.00–99.50	96.99
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,735	85.00–86.50	85.69

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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