Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-11-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-11-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Too light a test on Choice slaughter steers, no comparison. Choice slaughter heifers 9.00 lower, with light numbers last week. No implant cattle bringing a premium. CME live cattle futures continuing to fall this week. The auction consisted of mostly smaller strings, including plenty of "two weight cattle". Good demand for this light sale.

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	Select and Choice	Average	1,112	210.87	2,344	29
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,358	205.90	2,796	37
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,191	213.29	2,540	28
Steers	Choice	Average	1,478	206.86	3,058	21

Every lot, as filed

11 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	—	1,146	213.84/cwt	200.00–224.00	2,451	5
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,601	207.75/cwt	207.75–207.75	3,326	3
Steers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,175	215.43/cwt	202.00–227.00	2,531	20
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,441	207.52/cwt	205.00–209.00	2,990	12
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,372	198.06/cwt	195.00–200.00	2,717	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,515	203.50/cwt	203.50–203.50	3,083	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,479	205.88/cwt	205.50–206.00	3,045	4
Heifers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,083	213.38/cwt	210.00–229.50	2,311	24
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,409	207.63/cwt	207.00–208.00	2,926	8
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,249	198.81/cwt	194.50–200.00	2,483	5
Heifers	Choice	—	1,344	205.42/cwt	202.00–207.00	2,761	29

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 25, 2025

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

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Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,146	200.00–224.00	213.84
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,601	207.75	207.75
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	1,175	202.00–227.00	215.43
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,441	205.00–209.00	207.52
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,372	195.00–200.00	198.06
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,515	203.50	203.50
4	—	1,479	205.50–206.00	205.88
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,083	210.00–229.50	213.38
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,409	207.00–208.00	207.63
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,249	194.50–200.00	198.81
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,344	202.00–207.00	205.42

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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