Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-04-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-04-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 3.5 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 1.25 lower. 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	1,302	178.81	2,328	68
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,216	164.53	2,001	17
Heifers	Select	Average	1,278	143.52	1,834	12
Steers	Choice	Average	1,424	178.31	2,539	51
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,283	166.66	2,138	11
Steers	Select	Average	1,294	146.44	1,895	8thin

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	—	1,078	168.35/cwt	161.00–172.00	1,815	4
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,179	145.30/cwt	140.00–151.00	1,713	4
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,400	165.69/cwt	160.00–173.00	2,320	7
Steers	Select	—	1,409	147.57/cwt	140.00–154.00	2,079	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,424	178.31/cwt	174.50–181.25	2,539	51
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,198	164.19/cwt	163.00–171.00	1,967	14
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,111	143.29/cwt	133.00–150.00	1,592	4
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,149	178.75/cwt	176.50–181.00	2,054	12
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,300	166.12/cwt	164.00–169.00	2,160	3
Heifers	Select	—	1,361	143.63/cwt	138.00–152.00	1,955	8
Heifers	Choice	—	1,335	178.82/cwt	174.00–182.50	2,387	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 Apr 25, 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 3.5 lower. Choice slaughter heifers 1.25 lower. 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	—	1,078	161.00–172.00	168.35
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,179	140.00–151.00	145.30
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,400	160.00–173.00	165.69
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,409	140.00–154.00	147.57
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
51	—	1,424	174.50–181.25	178.31
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,198	163.00–171.00	164.19
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,111	133.00–150.00	143.29
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,149	176.50–181.00	178.75
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,300	164.00–169.00	166.12
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,361	138.00–152.00	143.63
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
56	—	1,335	174.00–182.50	178.82

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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