Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-05-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-05-20

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the slaughter cattle auction one week ago, choice steers and heifers were 1.00 to 3.50 higher. Demand for today's light offering was very good. Trade was active.

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	1,404	224.63	3,153	41
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,167	219.81	2,565	8thin
Steers	Choice and Prime	Average	1,583	230.00	3,641	29
Steers	Choice	Average	1,411	226.04	3,189	52
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,339	220.50	2,951	4thin

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	Choice and Prime	—	1,583	230.00/cwt	230.00–230.00	3,641	29
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,335	227.00/cwt	227.00–227.00	3,030	10
Steers	Choice	—	1,387	225.87/cwt	222.50–229.00	3,133	37
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,741	224.62/cwt	223.50–227.00	3,911	3
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,740	226.50/cwt	226.50–226.50	3,941	2
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,125	225.00/cwt	225.00–225.00	2,531	1
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,167	219.81/cwt	210.00–221.00	2,565	8
Heifers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,655	211.00/cwt	211.00–211.00	3,492	2
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,581	230.00/cwt	230.00–230.00	3,636	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,375	224.94/cwt	220.00–229.50	3,093	36
Steers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,155	226.00/cwt	226.00–226.00	2,610	1
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,537	215.50/cwt	215.50–215.50	3,312	2

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 May 20, 2025

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

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Compared to the slaughter cattle auction one week ago, choice steers and heifers were 1.00 to 3.50 higher. Demand for today's light offering was very good. Trade was active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice and Prime$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,583	230.00	230.00
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,335	227.00	227.00
2	—	1,740	226.50	226.50
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,387	222.50–229.00	225.87
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,741	223.50–227.00	224.62
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,125	225.00	225.00
1	—	1,155	226.00	226.00
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,537	215.50	215.50
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,167	210.00–221.00	219.81
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,655	211.00	211.00
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,581	230.00	230.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,375	220.00–229.50	224.94

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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