Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-08-17
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-08-17

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 2.00 higher, choice heifers 1.00 higher. Demand was 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
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,187	127.63	1,514	139
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	949	111.21	1,055	7thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,187	88.75	1,053	7thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,369	127.17	1,741	112
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,205	100.54	1,212	2thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,159	88.41	1,025	4thin

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	—	1,142	123.55/cwt	116.00–127.50	1,411	13
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,112	127.75/cwt	119.00–138.50	1,421	78
Steers	Choice	—	1,399	127.65/cwt	122.50–129.50	1,786	99
Heifers	Choice	—	1,282	127.47/cwt	119.00–129.75	1,634	61
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,205	100.54/cwt	100.00–101.00	1,212	2
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	949	111.21/cwt	105.00–115.00	1,055	7
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,159	88.41/cwt	86.00–92.00	1,025	4
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,063	87.18/cwt	85.00–91.00	927	4
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,435	80.00/cwt	80.00–80.00	1,148	1
Heifers	Select	—	1,310	96.26/cwt	95.50–97.00	1,261	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 Aug 17, 2021

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

Receipts 282Last week 207Year ago 333

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

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,142	116.00–127.50	123.55
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
99	—	1,399	122.50–129.50	127.65
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,205	100.00–101.00	100.54
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,159	86.00–92.00	88.41
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
78	—	1,112	119.00–138.50	127.75
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
61	—	1,282	119.00–129.75	127.47
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	949	105.00–115.00	111.21
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,063	85.00–91.00	87.18
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,435	80.00	80.00
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,310	95.50–97.00	96.26

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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