Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-03-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-03-18

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the slaughter auction one week ago, choice slaughter steers were 3.00 to 5.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers were steady to 3.00 higher. Today's light offering were mostly smaller groups of quality cattle. Demand was good.

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	1,378	204.07	2,812	23
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,108	193.18	2,140	9thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,524	207.52	3,162	37
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,050	204.93	2,151	8thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,094	190.00	2,079	11

Every lot, as filed

12 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	—	991	205.35/cwt	200.00–206.25	2,035	7
Steers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	1,094	190.00/cwt	190.00–190.00	2,079	11
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,790	204.35/cwt	202.00–205.50	3,658	3
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,606	205.50/cwt	205.50–205.50	3,300	7
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,597	211.50/cwt	211.50–211.50	3,378	4
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,460	202.00/cwt	202.00–202.00	2,949	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,451	207.85/cwt	204.00–211.00	3,016	23
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	973	187.58/cwt	178.00–196.00	1,825	2
Heifers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,099	195.25/cwt	195.25–195.25	2,146	6
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,480	209.50/cwt	209.50–209.50	3,101	2
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,430	192.00/cwt	192.00–192.00	2,746	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,368	203.55/cwt	199.00–209.00	2,785	21

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 Mar 18, 2025

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

Receipts 101Last week 106Year ago 140

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	991	200.00–206.25	205.35
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,094	190.00	190.00
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,790	202.00–205.50	204.35
7	—	1,606	205.50	205.50
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,597	211.50	211.50
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,460	202.00	202.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,451	204.00–211.00	207.85
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	973	178.00–196.00	187.58
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,099	195.25	195.25
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,480	209.50	209.50
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,430	192.00	192.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,368	199.00–209.00	203.55

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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