Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-01-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-01-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday steers were 6.25 lower, heifers 5.00 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	1,275	101.60	1,295	142
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,394	96.09	1,339	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,414	103.62	1,465	131
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,338	97.15	1,300	17
Steers	Select	Average	1,350	84.92	1,147	7thin

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	—	1,247	103.46/cwt	100.00–105.00	1,290	34
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,155	99.77/cwt	97.00–106.00	1,152	65
Heifers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,524	98.45/cwt	95.00–100.00	1,500	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,472	103.67/cwt	100.00–106.50	1,526	97
Heifers	Choice	—	1,368	103.41/cwt	100.50–108.00	1,415	73
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,176	96.07/cwt	95.00–98.00	1,130	7
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,452	97.90/cwt	97.50–98.00	1,422	10
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,394	96.09/cwt	92.50–99.00	1,339	17
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,299	85.17/cwt	81.50–91.00	1,106	5
Steers	Select	—	1,478	84.29/cwt	80.00–89.00	1,246	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.

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Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jan 12, 2021

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

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Compared to last Tuesday steers were 6.25 lower, heifers 5.00 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
34	—	1,247	100.00–105.00	103.46
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
97	—	1,472	100.00–106.50	103.67
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,176	95.00–98.00	96.07
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,452	97.50–98.00	97.90
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,299	81.50–91.00	85.17
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,478	80.00–89.00	84.29
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
65	—	1,155	97.00–106.00	99.77
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,524	95.00–100.00	98.45
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
73	—	1,368	100.50–108.00	103.41
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,394	92.50–99.00	96.09

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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