Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-10-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-10-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 3.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 4.5 higher. 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	1,257	146.34	1,839	138
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,088	130.46	1,420	5thin
Heifers	Select	Average	965	116.26	1,122	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,336	147.12	1,965	194
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,295	138.02	1,787	6thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,438	121.44	1,747	5thin

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	—	1,205	140.00/cwt	140.00–140.00	1,687	3
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,133	123.11/cwt	120.00–126.00	1,395	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,122	147.96/cwt	141.00–152.00	1,660	62
Steers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,760	116.49/cwt	115.00–118.00	2,050	2
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,385	136.03/cwt	133.00–139.00	1,884	3
Steers	Select	—	1,405	128.00/cwt	128.00–128.00	1,798	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,436	146.73/cwt	141.00–150.00	2,107	132
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,048	129.07/cwt	127.00–130.50	1,353	4
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	965	116.26/cwt	113.00–120.00	1,122	2
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,116	145.41/cwt	140.50–151.00	1,623	56
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,250	136.00/cwt	136.00–136.00	1,700	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,353	146.98/cwt	142.50–149.75	1,989	82

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 25, 2022

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

Receipts 356Last week 405Year ago 302

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 3.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 4.5 higher. 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
3	—	1,205	140.00	140.00
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,133	120.00–126.00	123.11
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
62	—	1,122	141.00–152.00	147.96
Steers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,760	115.00–118.00	116.49
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,385	133.00–139.00	136.03
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,405	128.00	128.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
132	—	1,436	141.00–150.00	146.73
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,048	127.00–130.50	129.07
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	965	113.00–120.00	116.26
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
56	—	1,116	140.50–151.00	145.41
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,250	136.00	136.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
82	—	1,353	142.50–149.75	146.98

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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