Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-07-11
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-07-11

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison today, due to no sale last Tuesday on Independence Day. Upward trend. 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	1,216	183.05	2,225	82
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,204	170.08	2,048	14
Heifers	Select	Average	1,158	160.29	1,856	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,396	181.63	2,536	154
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,322	169.97	2,247	24
Steers	Select	Average	1,327	156.42	2,075	11

Every lot, as filed

13 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 Choice	—	1,459	169.48/cwt	165.00–175.00	2,473	14
Steers	Select	—	1,403	157.40/cwt	152.00–160.00	2,208	8
Steers	Choice	—	1,418	182.08/cwt	177.00–185.25	2,582	139
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,092	160.93/cwt	153.00–165.50	1,757	7
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,123	153.79/cwt	150.00–160.00	1,727	3
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,194	177.50/cwt	176.00–184.50	2,119	15
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,130	170.65/cwt	168.00–175.00	1,928	10
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,075	176.35/cwt	175.00–181.00	1,896	10
Heifers	ChoiceNatural	—	1,156	185.00/cwt	185.00–185.00	2,139	38
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,101	172.02/cwt	167.00–174.50	1,894	8
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,342	167.49/cwt	163.00–168.50	2,248	6
Heifers	Select	—	1,312	158.78/cwt	156.00–160.50	2,083	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,324	182.84/cwt	177.50–184.75	2,421	34

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 Jul 11, 2023

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

Receipts 310Last week 161Year ago 382

No comparison today, due to no sale last Tuesday on Independence Day. Upward trend. Demand good. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,459	165.00–175.00	169.48
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,403	152.00–160.00	157.40
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
139	—	1,418	177.00–185.25	182.08
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,123	150.00–160.00	153.79
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,194	176.00–184.50	177.50
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,130	168.00–175.00	170.65
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,092	153.00–165.50	160.93
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,075	175.00–181.00	176.35
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,156	185.00	185.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,101	167.00–174.50	172.02
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,342	163.00–168.50	167.49
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,312	156.00–160.50	158.78
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,324	177.50–184.75	182.84

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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