Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-11-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last week: Choice slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady. No implant steers bringing a premium this week. Mostly smaller strings in the offering today. Good demand.

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	1,360	185.37	2,520	66
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,128	184.70	2,083	25
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,160	186.37	2,162	26
Steers	Choice	Average	1,446	185.10	2,676	71

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	—	1,167	187.20/cwt	181.50–190.50	2,185	17
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,420	185.38/cwt	183.75–186.35	2,632	18
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,410	180.50/cwt	180.00–181.00	2,545	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,522	184.92/cwt	184.75–185.00	2,814	10
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,610	185.00/cwt	185.00–185.00	2,979	3
Steers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,072	186.02/cwt	185.00–186.50	1,994	7
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,595	186.35/cwt	186.35–186.35	2,972	9
Steers	Choice	—	1,377	184.65/cwt	183.50–185.85	2,543	31
Heifers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,112	185.35/cwt	183.50–190.50	2,061	18
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,343	185.28/cwt	185.00–186.25	2,488	24
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,010	187.24/cwt	181.00–193.00	1,891	3
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,288	179.85/cwt	178.00–181.00	2,316	4
Heifers	Choice	—	1,369	185.42/cwt	182.50–186.60	2,538	42

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 12, 2024

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

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Compared to the sale last week: Choice slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady. No implant steers bringing a premium this week. Mostly smaller strings in the offering today. Good demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,167	181.50–190.50	187.20
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,420	183.75–186.35	185.38
9	—	1,595	186.35	186.35
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,410	180.00–181.00	180.50
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,522	184.75–185.00	184.92
31	—	1,377	183.50–185.85	184.65
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,610	185.00	185.00
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,072	185.00–186.50	186.02
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,112	183.50–190.50	185.35
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,343	185.00–186.25	185.28
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,010	181.00–193.00	187.24
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,288	178.00–181.00	179.85
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
42	—	1,369	182.50–186.60	185.42

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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