Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-02-23
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-02-23

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison today. 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	1,273	110.63	1,409	85
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,117	104.77	1,170	25
Heifers	Select	Average	1,045	90.46	945	4thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,295	111.83	1,449	112
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,601	98.52	1,577	7thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,098	87.90	965	2thin

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	Choice	—	1,448	111.70/cwt	106.25–114.75	1,617	61
Heifers	Choice	—	1,281	110.54/cwt	105.00–113.50	1,416	75
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,113	111.99/cwt	106.00–114.50	1,246	51
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,216	111.29/cwt	107.50–114.00	1,353	10
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,240	103.00/cwt	103.00–103.00	1,277	1
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,101	105.05/cwt	99.00–106.50	1,157	23
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,661	97.77/cwt	94.50–103.50	1,624	6
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,295	101.50/cwt	101.50–101.50	1,314	2
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,098	87.90/cwt	86.00–90.00	965	2
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,045	90.46/cwt	90.00–92.00	945	4

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 Feb 23, 2021

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

Receipts 240Last week 230Year ago 206

No comparison today. Moderate offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
61	—	1,448	106.25–114.75	111.70
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
51	—	1,113	106.00–114.50	111.99
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,240	103.00	103.00
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,661	94.50–103.50	97.77
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,098	86.00–90.00	87.90
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
75	—	1,281	105.00–113.50	110.54
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,216	107.50–114.00	111.29
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,101	99.00–106.50	105.05
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,295	101.50	101.50
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,045	90.00–92.00	90.46

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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