Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-11-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-11-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 4.00 lower. Choice slaughter heifers mostly 1.00 to 4.00 lower with instances of 6.00 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	1,339	175.77	2,354	74
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,144	170.22	1,947	39
Heifers	Select	Average	1,140	157.15	1,792	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,485	176.24	2,618	101
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,232	172.15	2,120	25
Steers	Select	Average	1,083	153.75	1,665	2thin

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 ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,198	172.74/cwt	166.00–185.00	2,069	20
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,294	171.26/cwt	171.00–172.00	2,216	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,537	176.49/cwt	175.00–177.75	2,713	47
Steers	Choice	—	1,397	175.96/cwt	174.00–177.25	2,458	45
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,083	153.75/cwt	150.00–158.00	1,665	2
Steers	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,655	164.00/cwt	164.00–164.00	2,714	1
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,657	176.31/cwt	173.50–177.50	2,921	9
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	900	155.00/cwt	155.00–155.00	1,395	2
Heifers	ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,070	173.00/cwt	173.00–173.00	1,851	5
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,129	170.74/cwt	169.50–171.50	1,928	35
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,271	165.65/cwt	165.00–167.50	2,105	4
Heifers	Select	—	1,200	157.69/cwt	151.00–161.00	1,892	8
Heifers	Choice	—	1,359	175.97/cwt	172.00–178.00	2,391	69

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 Nov 14, 2023

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

Receipts 262Last week 322Year ago 180

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 4.00 lower. Choice slaughter heifers mostly 1.00 to 4.00 lower with instances of 6.00 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
20	—	1,198	166.00–185.00	172.74
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,294	171.00–172.00	171.26
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
47	—	1,537	175.00–177.75	176.49
45	—	1,397	174.00–177.25	175.96
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,083	150.00–158.00	153.75
Steers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,655	164.00	164.00
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,657	173.50–177.50	176.31
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	900	155.00	155.00
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,070	173.00	173.00
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,129	169.50–171.50	170.74
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,271	165.00–167.50	165.65
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,200	151.00–161.00	157.69
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
69	—	1,359	172.00–178.00	175.97

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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