Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-09-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-09-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were .50 higher, choice heifers .50 lower. Demand was good today. 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
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,204	121.43	1,461	111
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,182	109.54	1,295	12
Heifers	Select	Average	1,271	88.93	1,131	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,350	121.02	1,634	151
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,070	109.56	1,172	2thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,387	86.48	1,199	3thin

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
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,070	109.56/cwt	108.00–111.00	1,172	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,216	119.37/cwt	115.00–122.50	1,452	38
Steers	Select	—	1,387	86.48/cwt	83.50–91.00	1,199	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,395	121.58/cwt	115.00–123.25	1,696	113
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,069	109.17/cwt	104.00–112.50	1,167	8
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,145	86.52/cwt	82.00–90.00	991	11
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,075	120.13/cwt	114.00–130.00	1,291	40
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,590	84.00/cwt	84.00–84.00	1,336	1
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,409	110.27/cwt	109.00–114.25	1,554	4
Heifers	Select	—	1,486	95.22/cwt	94.50–95.50	1,415	5
Heifers	Choice	—	1,276	122.16/cwt	117.50–123.85	1,559	71

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 Sep 14, 2021

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

Receipts 309Last week 172Year ago 457

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were .50 higher, choice heifers .50 lower. Demand was good today. Trading active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,070	108.00–111.00	109.56
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,216	115.00–122.50	119.37
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,387	83.50–91.00	86.48
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
113	—	1,395	115.00–123.25	121.58
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,069	104.00–112.50	109.17
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,145	82.00–90.00	86.52
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
40	—	1,075	114.00–130.00	120.13
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,590	84.00	84.00
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,409	109.00–114.25	110.27
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,486	94.50–95.50	95.22
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
71	—	1,276	117.50–123.85	122.16

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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