Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-03-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-03-28

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.8 higher. Choice slaughter heifers steady. 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	1,246	163.80	2,041	45
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,172	153.23	1,796	17
Heifers	Select	Average	1,215	141.00	1,713	3thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,415	167.40	2,368	90
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,163	155.81	1,813	22
Steers	Select	Average	1,098	132.06	1,450	2thin

Every lot, as filed

11 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	—	1,070	155.85/cwt	153.50–158.00	1,668	14
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,098	132.06/cwt	131.00–133.00	1,450	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,020	163.43/cwt	161.00–164.50	1,667	7
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,327	155.74/cwt	152.00–157.00	2,067	8
Steers	Choice	—	1,448	167.73/cwt	161.50–171.50	2,429	83
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	999	152.93/cwt	151.00–156.50	1,528	8
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,135	139.00/cwt	139.00–139.00	1,578	1
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,078	161.73/cwt	160.00–164.00	1,743	17
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,326	153.50/cwt	153.50–153.50	2,035	9
Heifers	Select	—	1,255	142.00/cwt	142.00–142.00	1,782	2
Heifers	Choice	—	1,348	165.05/cwt	158.75–169.50	2,225	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 Mar 28, 2023

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

Receipts 187Last week 134Year ago 170

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.8 higher. Choice slaughter heifers steady. 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
14	—	1,070	153.50–158.00	155.85
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,098	131.00–133.00	132.06
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,020	161.00–164.50	163.43
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,327	152.00–157.00	155.74
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
83	—	1,448	161.50–171.50	167.73
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	999	151.00–156.50	152.93
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,135	139.00	139.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,078	160.00–164.00	161.73
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,326	153.50	153.50
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,255	142.00	142.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,348	158.75–169.50	165.05

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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