Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-09-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-09-26

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last week, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 3.00 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	1,265	179.91	2,276	84
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,157	171.46	1,984	18
Heifers	Select	Average	1,155	162.75	1,880	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,358	179.78	2,442	116
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,296	170.95	2,215	8thin

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	—	1,215	170.00/cwt	170.00–170.00	2,066	1
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,195	177.66/cwt	173.00–179.50	2,123	12
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,307	171.08/cwt	168.00–173.00	2,236	7
Steers	Choice	—	1,377	180.03/cwt	175.00–184.00	2,479	104
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,068	172.37/cwt	169.00–173.50	1,841	10
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	910	165.50/cwt	165.50–165.50	1,506	1
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,128	180.62/cwt	176.75–182.10	2,037	19
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,269	170.33/cwt	169.50–173.00	2,161	8
Heifers	Select	—	1,400	160.00/cwt	160.00–160.00	2,240	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,305	179.70/cwt	175.00–182.25	2,345	65

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 Sep 26, 2023

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

Receipts 241Last week 416Year ago 440

Compared to the sale last week, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 3.00 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
1	—	1,215	170.00	170.00
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,195	173.00–179.50	177.66
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,307	168.00–173.00	171.08
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
104	—	1,377	175.00–184.00	180.03
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,068	169.00–173.50	172.37
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	910	165.50	165.50
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,128	176.75–182.10	180.62
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,269	169.50–173.00	170.33
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,400	160.00	160.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
65	—	1,305	175.00–182.25	179.70

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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