Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-11-22
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-11-22

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.75 higher. Choice slaughter heifers steady. 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	1,288	151.12	1,946	79
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,240	141.23	1,751	16
Heifers	Select	Average	1,256	130.54	1,639	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,430	152.91	2,186	102
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,252	141.81	1,775	14

Every lot, as filed

10 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	—	996	141.76/cwt	140.00–145.00	1,412	4
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,120	152.74/cwt	147.50–157.50	1,711	8
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,354	141.83/cwt	134.00–145.50	1,920	10
Steers	Choice	—	1,456	152.92/cwt	147.75–156.75	2,227	94
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,135	140.51/cwt	136.00–143.00	1,595	10
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	903	131.00/cwt	131.00–131.00	1,183	2
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,080	151.28/cwt	150.00–156.00	1,634	23
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,415	142.44/cwt	141.00–145.50	2,016	6
Heifers	Select	—	1,344	130.42/cwt	130.00–130.50	1,753	8
Heifers	Choice	—	1,373	151.06/cwt	148.00–153.00	2,074	56

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 Nov 22, 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 1.75 higher. Choice slaughter heifers steady. 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
4	—	996	140.00–145.00	141.76
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,120	147.50–157.50	152.74
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,354	134.00–145.50	141.83
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
94	—	1,456	147.75–156.75	152.92
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,135	136.00–143.00	140.51
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	903	131.00	131.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,080	150.00–156.00	151.28
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,415	141.00–145.50	142.44
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,344	130.00–130.50	130.42
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
56	—	1,373	148.00–153.00	151.06

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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