Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-04-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-04-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 2.8 lower, choice slaughter heifers 1.00 higher. Several load lots today. 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
Dairy Heifers	Choice	Average	1,543	102.50	1,582	2thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,317	139.09	1,831	103
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,334	129.42	1,726	41
Heifers	Select	Average	1,195	109.37	1,307	12
Steers	Choice	Average	1,481	140.88	2,086	183
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,315	129.21	1,699	17
Steers	Select	Average	1,164	108.38	1,262	6thin

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
Dairy Heifers	Choice	—	1,543	102.50/cwt	102.50–102.50	1,582	2
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,273	128.94/cwt	122.00–129.75	1,641	15
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,164	108.38/cwt	100.00–115.00	1,262	6
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,293	134.66/cwt	132.00–138.50	1,741	13
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,628	131.23/cwt	131.00–131.50	2,136	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,495	141.36/cwt	133.25–145.25	2,113	170
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,166	127.22/cwt	124.50–130.00	1,483	9
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,180	109.58/cwt	100.00–117.00	1,293	11
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,298	138.03/cwt	133.00–141.00	1,792	77
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,381	130.04/cwt	120.00–132.00	1,796	32
Heifers	Select	—	1,365	107.00/cwt	107.00–107.00	1,461	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,372	142.21/cwt	133.25–145.00	1,951	26

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 Apr 12, 2022

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

Receipts 372Last week 368Year ago 157

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 2.8 lower, choice slaughter heifers 1.00 higher. Several load lots today. Demand good. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,543	102.50	102.50
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,273	122.00–129.75	128.94
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,164	100.00–115.00	108.38
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,293	132.00–138.50	134.66
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,628	131.00–131.50	131.23
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
170	—	1,495	133.25–145.25	141.36
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,166	124.50–130.00	127.22
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,180	100.00–117.00	109.58
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
77	—	1,298	133.00–141.00	138.03
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	1,381	120.00–132.00	130.04
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,365	107.00	107.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,372	133.25–145.00	142.21

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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