Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-10-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-10-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 2.00 higher. 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
Bulls	—	Average	1,399	150.00	2,099	11
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,238	181.89	2,253	71
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,107	169.71	1,879	8thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,354	182.07	2,465	83
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,267	168.16	2,130	9thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,278	154.61	1,976	2thin

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
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	999	170.58/cwt	170.00–172.00	1,704	5
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,190	171.66/cwt	170.00–173.00	2,043	3
Steers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,101	185.23/cwt	175.00–210.00	2,039	14
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,305	166.41/cwt	165.00–170.00	2,172	6
Steers	Select	—	1,278	154.61/cwt	154.00–155.00	1,976	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,405	181.43/cwt	176.00–185.00	2,549	69
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,099	181.59/cwt	175.50–206.00	1,996	21
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,288	168.27/cwt	165.00–170.00	2,167	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,297	182.01/cwt	176.00–186.10	2,361	50
Bulls	—	—	1,399	150.00/cwt	150.00–150.00	2,099	11

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 Oct 3, 2023

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

Receipts 185Last week 241Year ago 217

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 2.00 higher. Demand good. Active trade.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	999	170.00–172.00	170.58
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,099	175.50–206.00	181.59
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,288	165.00–170.00	168.27
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	1,297	176.00–186.10	182.01
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,190	170.00–173.00	171.66
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,101	175.00–210.00	185.23
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,305	165.00–170.00	166.41
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,278	154.00–155.00	154.61
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
69	—	1,405	176.00–185.00	181.43
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,399	150.00	150.00

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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