Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-05-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-05-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were .75 lower, choice heifers 3.00 lower. Light offerings were met with good demand. Trading 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
Bulls	—	Average	985	76.00	749	1thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,415	86.07	1,218	6thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,206	114.07	1,376	111
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,051	100.91	1,061	17
Heifers	Select	Average	1,194	79.31	947	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,377	115.52	1,590	133
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,465	103.02	1,509	2thin

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	—	985	76.00/cwt	76.00–76.00	749	1
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,250	113.14/cwt	108.00–116.00	1,414	40
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,188	114.22/cwt	108.75–117.50	1,357	88
Heifers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,580	105.75/cwt	105.75–105.75	1,671	1
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,415	86.07/cwt	84.50–87.50	1,218	6
Steers	Choice	—	1,431	116.55/cwt	112.25–119.00	1,668	93
Heifers	Choice	—	1,262	113.86/cwt	111.00–116.00	1,437	22
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,051	100.91/cwt	97.00–107.50	1,061	17
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,465	103.02/cwt	97.00–108.50	1,509	2
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,018	80.80/cwt	78.50–84.00	823	3
Heifers	Select	—	1,458	77.07/cwt	75.00–79.00	1,124	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 May 25, 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 choice steers were .75 lower, choice heifers 3.00 lower. Light offerings were met with good demand. Trading active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	985	76.00	76.00
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
40	—	1,250	108.00–116.00	113.14
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
93	—	1,431	112.25–119.00	116.55
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,465	97.00–108.50	103.02
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,188	108.75–117.50	114.22
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,580	105.75	105.75
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
22	—	1,262	111.00–116.00	113.86
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,051	97.00–107.50	100.91
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,018	78.50–84.00	80.80
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,458	75.00–79.00	77.07
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,415	84.50–87.50	86.07

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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