Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-16

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday: Choice slaughter steers 2.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 1.00 higher. No implant and drug free cattle bringing a premium. 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	1,393	225.82	3,146	70
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,309	217.08	2,841	19
Steers	Choice	Average	1,494	225.80	3,374	85
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,286	221.17	2,845	13

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	—	1,186	223.22/cwt	216.00–234.00	2,647	5
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,377	226.49/cwt	225.50–226.85	3,119	8
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,349	219.89/cwt	216.00–221.00	2,966	8
Steers	Choice	—	1,545	225.58/cwt	224.25–226.00	3,485	13
Steers	ChoiceNatural	—	1,431	227.10/cwt	227.10–227.10	3,250	6
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,683	225.07/cwt	220.50–226.00	3,788	6
Steers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,548	225.85/cwt	223.50–227.00	3,496	12
Steers	Choice	—	1,466	225.63/cwt	224.00–226.35	3,308	40
Heifers	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,455	215.53/cwt	213.50–218.50	3,136	5
Heifers	ChoiceCertified Prgms	—	1,376	226.16/cwt	224.25–227.00	3,112	25
Heifers	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	—	1,078	220.37/cwt	211.00–231.00	2,376	2
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,286	217.17/cwt	214.00–219.00	2,793	12
Heifers	Choice	—	1,403	225.63/cwt	222.25–226.35	3,166	45

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.

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Dec 16, 2025

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

Receipts 198Last week 110Year ago 190

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	—	1,186	216.00–234.00	223.22
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,377	225.50–226.85	226.49
12	—	1,548	223.50–227.00	225.85
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,349	216.00–221.00	219.89
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,545	224.25–226.00	225.58
40	—	1,466	224.00–226.35	225.63
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,431	227.10	227.10
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,683	220.50–226.00	225.07
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,455	213.50–218.50	215.53
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
25	—	1,376	224.25–227.00	226.16
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,078	211.00–231.00	220.37
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,286	214.00–219.00	217.17
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,403	222.25–226.35	225.63

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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