Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-07-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-07-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 1.00 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	1,221	181.69	2,219	96
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,086	172.15	1,870	4thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,468	150.34	2,207	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,325	183.58	2,432	154
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,392	173.81	2,419	20
Steers	Select	Average	1,362	160.89	2,192	17

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	—	1,120	172.48/cwt	169.00–175.00	1,932	3
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,170	164.53/cwt	163.00–166.00	1,925	2
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,167	183.53/cwt	179.00–190.00	2,142	12
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,440	174.05/cwt	169.50–177.75	2,506	17
Steers	Select	—	1,388	160.41/cwt	155.00–165.00	2,226	15
Steers	Choice	—	1,338	183.58/cwt	178.00–186.50	2,456	142
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,086	172.15/cwt	164.00–175.50	1,870	4
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,095	180.50/cwt	178.00–184.50	1,976	26
Heifers	SelectHeavy Weight	—	1,795	140.00/cwt	140.00–140.00	2,513	1
Heifers	Select	—	1,386	152.93/cwt	150.00–156.00	2,120	4
Heifers	Choice	—	1,268	182.13/cwt	176.50–186.75	2,309	70

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.

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jul 25, 2023

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

Receipts 313Last week 187Year ago 170

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 1.00 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
3	—	1,120	169.00–175.00	172.48
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,170	163.00–166.00	164.53
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,167	179.00–190.00	183.53
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,440	169.50–177.75	174.05
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,388	155.00–165.00	160.41
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
142	—	1,338	178.00–186.50	183.58
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,086	164.00–175.50	172.15
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,095	178.00–184.50	180.50
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,795	140.00	140.00
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,386	150.00–156.00	152.93
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
70	—	1,268	176.50–186.75	182.13

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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