Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-10-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-10-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were .50 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 1.00 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	1,321	144.21	1,905	85
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,229	134.95	1,659	8thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,113	119.75	1,332	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,385	144.64	2,004	103
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,288	138.13	1,779	12
Steers	Select	Average	998	117.50	1,173	4thin

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	—	1,189	138.64/cwt	136.00–140.00	1,648	6
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	998	117.50/cwt	117.50–117.50	1,173	4
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,135	145.30/cwt	141.00–153.50	1,649	15
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,387	137.62/cwt	131.00–140.00	1,909	6
Steers	Choice	—	1,428	144.53/cwt	141.00–148.50	2,064	88
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,196	134.44/cwt	129.00–138.00	1,608	7
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	890	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	1,024	1
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,229	140.92/cwt	139.50–144.50	1,732	31
Heifers	ChoiceNatural	—	1,380	148.03/cwt	147.75–154.00	2,043	26
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,460	138.50/cwt	138.50–138.50	2,022	1
Heifers	Select	—	1,335	124.50/cwt	124.50–124.50	1,662	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,367	144.32/cwt	140.00–145.75	1,973	28

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 Oct 4, 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 .50 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 1.00 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
6	—	1,189	136.00–140.00	138.64
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	998	117.50	117.50
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,135	141.00–153.50	145.30
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,387	131.00–140.00	137.62
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,428	141.00–148.50	144.53
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,196	129.00–138.00	134.44
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	890	115.00	115.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,229	139.50–144.50	140.92
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,380	147.75–154.00	148.03
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,460	138.50	138.50
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,335	124.50	124.50
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,367	140.00–145.75	144.32

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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