Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-02-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday; Too light a test on choice slaughter steers, no comparison. Choice slaughter heifers mostly steady. No implant cattle bringing a premium. Mostly smaller groups in the offering today. Demand good, although not as strong as last week.

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	1,387	208.45	2,891	56
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,260	197.65	2,490	67
Steers	Choice	Average	1,560	209.21	3,263	34
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,267	205.14	2,600	26

Every lot, as filed

14 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 Choice	—	1,412	198.06/cwt	196.00–200.50	2,797	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,588	202.00/cwt	202.00–202.00	3,208	4
Steers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,517	205.50/cwt	205.50–205.50	3,117	4
Steers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,335	202.03/cwt	200.50–202.50	2,697	4
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,601	211.25/cwt	211.25–211.25	3,382	19
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,154	207.29/cwt	200.50–213.00	2,392	15
Steers	ChoiceNatural	—	1,531	208.00/cwt	208.00–208.00	3,184	3
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,492	211.00/cwt	211.00–211.00	3,148	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,423	205.87/cwt	202.50–208.25	2,930	4
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,350	209.66/cwt	205.00–210.25	2,830	28
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,174	197.20/cwt	186.00–203.50	2,315	38
Heifers	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,680	183.77/cwt	182.50–185.00	3,087	2
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,349	199.32/cwt	194.00–201.50	2,689	27
Heifers	Choice	—	1,424	207.24/cwt	205.50–209.50	2,951	28

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 Feb 4, 2025

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

Receipts 203Last week 269Year ago 206

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,412	196.00–200.50	198.06
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,588	202.00	202.00
4	—	1,423	202.50–208.25	205.87
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,517	205.50	205.50
4	—	1,335	200.50–202.50	202.03
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,601	211.25	211.25
4	—	1,492	211.00	211.00
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,154	200.50–213.00	207.29
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,531	208.00	208.00
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,350	205.00–210.25	209.66
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,174	186.00–203.50	197.20
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,680	182.50–185.00	183.77
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,349	194.00–201.50	199.32
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,424	205.50–209.50	207.24

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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