Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-12-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-12-07

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 4.5 higher, choice slaughter heifers 4.25 higher. Demand good. 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	1,336	139.16	1,859	109
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,314	120.38	1,582	12
Heifers	Select	Average	1,313	111.57	1,465	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,435	139.45	2,001	115
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,413	127.05	1,796	10

Every lot, as filed

9 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	—	1,290	124.52/cwt	120.00–127.50	1,606	3
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,317	137.10/cwt	129.50–141.00	1,806	23
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,466	128.14/cwt	127.00–129.00	1,879	7
Steers	Choice	—	1,464	140.04/cwt	135.00–143.25	2,050	92
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,314	120.38/cwt	120.00–124.50	1,582	12
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,138	104.83/cwt	99.00–110.00	1,193	2
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,273	137.50/cwt	127.00–140.00	1,750	36
Heifers	Select	—	1,429	116.07/cwt	114.50–119.50	1,659	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,367	139.98/cwt	134.50–141.75	1,914	73

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.

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Dec 7, 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 slaughter steers were 4.5 higher, choice slaughter heifers 4.25 higher. Demand good. 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
3	—	1,290	120.00–127.50	124.52
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,317	129.50–141.00	137.10
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,466	127.00–129.00	128.14
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
92	—	1,464	135.00–143.25	140.04
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,314	120.00–124.50	120.38
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,138	99.00–110.00	104.83
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,273	127.00–140.00	137.50
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,429	114.50–119.50	116.07
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
73	—	1,367	134.50–141.75	139.98

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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