Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-06-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-06-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale two weeks ago choice steers were 3.25 higher, choice heifers 3.00 higher. Light 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	1,391	89.00	1,238	5thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,174	115.37	1,354	25
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,040	104.69	1,089	22
Heifers	Select	Average	1,031	92.00	949	6thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,321	117.70	1,555	60
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,233	107.76	1,328	4thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,245	89.46	1,114	6thin

Every lot, as filed

12 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	Select	—	1,520	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,414	1
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,031	92.00/cwt	87.00–94.00	949	6
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,190	88.75/cwt	84.00–94.50	1,056	5
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,003	107.00/cwt	107.00–107.00	1,073	5
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,192	108.68/cwt	107.50–110.50	1,295	3
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,051	104.01/cwt	97.00–107.50	1,093	17
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,355	105.00/cwt	105.00–105.00	1,423	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,179	117.03/cwt	113.25–119.00	1,380	16
Steers	Choice	—	1,354	119.87/cwt	118.25–120.85	1,623	45
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,391	89.00/cwt	89.00–89.00	1,238	5
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,165	112.43/cwt	111.00–113.00	1,310	9
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,223	111.17/cwt	109.50–113.00	1,360	15

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 Jun 8, 2021

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

Receipts 148Last week 282Year ago 122

Compared to the sale two weeks ago choice steers were 3.25 higher, choice heifers 3.00 higher. Light offerings were met with good demand. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,520	93.00	93.00
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,190	84.00–94.50	88.75
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,192	107.50–110.50	108.68
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,355	105.00	105.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,354	118.25–120.85	119.87
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,223	109.50–113.00	111.17
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,031	87.00–94.00	92.00
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,003	107.00	107.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,051	97.00–107.50	104.01
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,179	113.25–119.00	117.03
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,165	111.00–113.00	112.43
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,391	89.00	89.00

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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