Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-08-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-08-02

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 4.00 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 3.00 lower. Demand good. Active trade.

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	1,209	136.54	1,651	80
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,218	131.35	1,600	31
Heifers	Select	Average	1,297	118.72	1,540	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,329	137.83	1,831	123
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,345	133.90	1,801	43
Steers	Select	Average	883	122.34	1,080	2thin

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	—	1,107	133.17/cwt	130.00–135.50	1,474	5
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	883	122.34/cwt	120.00–125.00	1,080	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,161	137.83/cwt	137.00–139.00	1,600	9
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,376	134.00/cwt	133.00–135.50	1,844	38
Steers	Choice	—	1,342	137.83/cwt	136.00–142.50	1,850	114
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,085	130.90/cwt	130.00–132.00	1,420	10
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	852	121.25/cwt	111.00–126.50	1,033	3
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,131	135.47/cwt	134.00–138.50	1,532	39
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,625	108.00/cwt	108.00–108.00	1,755	1
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,281	131.57/cwt	129.50–133.00	1,685	21
Heifers	Select	—	1,375	118.96/cwt	111.00–125.00	1,636	13
Heifers	Choice	—	1,284	137.56/cwt	134.50–139.00	1,766	41

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 2, 2022

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

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Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 4.00 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 3.00 lower. Demand good. Active trade.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,107	130.00–135.50	133.17
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	883	120.00–125.00	122.34
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,161	137.00–139.00	137.83
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,376	133.00–135.50	134.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
114	—	1,342	136.00–142.50	137.83
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,085	130.00–132.00	130.90
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	852	111.00–126.50	121.25
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
39	—	1,131	134.00–138.50	135.47
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,625	108.00	108.00
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,281	129.50–133.00	131.57
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,375	111.00–125.00	118.96
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
41	—	1,284	134.50–139.00	137.56

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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