Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-03-29
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-03-29

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were .40 lower, choice slaughter heifers 2.50 lower. Demand good. 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	1,282	139.53	1,789	69
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,269	128.38	1,629	22
Heifers	Select	Average	1,176	108.10	1,271	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,364	141.30	1,928	49
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,331	127.19	1,693	10
Steers	Select	Average	1,375	114.36	1,572	9thin

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 and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,247	130.86/cwt	130.00–132.00	1,632	3
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,193	113.28/cwt	109.00–119.00	1,351	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,243	140.29/cwt	134.00–145.00	1,744	18
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,367	125.62/cwt	123.00–131.50	1,717	7
Steers	Select	—	1,427	114.67/cwt	110.00–121.00	1,636	7
Steers	Choice	—	1,435	141.89/cwt	134.00–147.50	2,036	31
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,137	126.98/cwt	122.00–131.50	1,444	11
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,058	108.48/cwt	105.00–115.00	1,148	3
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,222	139.97/cwt	133.00–142.00	1,710	34
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,400	129.78/cwt	126.00–131.00	1,817	11
Heifers	Select	—	1,353	107.54/cwt	100.00–115.00	1,455	2
Heifers	Choice	—	1,341	139.11/cwt	133.75–144.25	1,865	35

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 Mar 29, 2022

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 .40 lower, choice slaughter heifers 2.50 lower. Demand good. Trade 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	—	1,247	130.00–132.00	130.86
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,193	109.00–119.00	113.28
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,243	134.00–145.00	140.29
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,367	123.00–131.50	125.62
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,427	110.00–121.00	114.67
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,435	134.00–147.50	141.89
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,137	122.00–131.50	126.98
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,058	105.00–115.00	108.48
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,222	133.00–142.00	139.97
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,400	126.00–131.00	129.78
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,353	100.00–115.00	107.54
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,341	133.75–144.25	139.11

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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