Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-07-27
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-07-27

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 1.00 lower, choice heifers 2.00 lower. Demand good today. 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
Bulls	—	Average	1,245	91.86	1,144	2thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,242	118.39	1,470	56
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,095	102.37	1,121	2thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,195	90.37	1,080	8thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,282	119.70	1,534	126
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,252	111.38	1,395	7thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,070	85.28	912	2thin

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
Bulls	—Return to Feed	—	1,245	91.86/cwt	90.50–93.50	1,144	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,196	119.16/cwt	114.25–124.50	1,425	74
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,133	117.10/cwt	111.00–120.00	1,327	21
Heifers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,800	110.00/cwt	110.00–110.00	1,980	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,404	120.46/cwt	116.00–122.50	1,691	52
Heifers	Choice	—	1,293	119.43/cwt	116.50–120.35	1,544	34
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,134	110.75/cwt	106.50–113.00	1,256	5
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,095	102.37/cwt	100.00–105.00	1,121	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,548	112.97/cwt	112.50–113.50	1,749	2
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,070	85.28/cwt	80.00–90.00	912	2
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,070	89.59/cwt	82.00–95.00	959	5
Heifers	Select	—	1,402	91.68/cwt	91.00–93.00	1,285	3

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 Jul 27, 2021

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

Receipts 211Last week 283Year ago 356

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 1.00 lower, choice heifers 2.00 lower. Demand good today. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,245	90.50–93.50	91.86
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
74	—	1,196	114.25–124.50	119.16
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	1,404	116.00–122.50	120.46
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,134	106.50–113.00	110.75
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,548	112.50–113.50	112.97
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,070	80.00–90.00	85.28
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,133	111.00–120.00	117.10
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,800	110.00	110.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,293	116.50–120.35	119.43
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,095	100.00–105.00	102.37
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,070	82.00–95.00	89.59
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,402	91.00–93.00	91.68

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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