Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-03-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-03-21

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were .50 lower. Choice slaughter heifers .70 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	1,310	164.85	2,160	41
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,088	147.50	1,605	7thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,170	142.49	1,667	14
Steers	Choice	Average	1,439	165.90	2,387	39
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,218	158.64	1,933	15
Steers	Select	Average	1,293	137.21	1,774	4thin

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	—	1,079	156.43/cwt	154.00–158.00	1,688	4
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,269	159.45/cwt	159.00–159.50	2,023	11
Steers	Select	—	1,293	137.21/cwt	133.00–142.00	1,774	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,439	165.90/cwt	162.00–168.75	2,387	39
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,050	147.67/cwt	146.00–154.00	1,551	6
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,132	143.24/cwt	131.00–144.50	1,621	10
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,131	164.78/cwt	160.00–167.00	1,864	5
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,315	146.50/cwt	146.50–146.50	1,926	1
Heifers	Select	—	1,264	140.60/cwt	138.00–143.00	1,777	4
Heifers	Choice	—	1,335	164.86/cwt	159.00–169.00	2,201	36

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 Mar 21, 2023

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 .70 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
4	—	1,079	154.00–158.00	156.43
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,269	159.00–159.50	159.45
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,293	133.00–142.00	137.21
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
39	—	1,439	162.00–168.75	165.90
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,050	146.00–154.00	147.67
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,132	131.00–144.50	143.24
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,131	160.00–167.00	164.78
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,315	146.50	146.50
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,264	138.00–143.00	140.60
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,335	159.00–169.00	164.86

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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