Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-03-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-03-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison stated today as the previous week's auction was a Western Iowa Preconditioned Sale. Available today were load lots of quality reputation replacement heifers. Many loads of high quality yearlings, both steers and heifers, green and open-haired were in today's offering. Demand was very good for this moderate supply. Trade was active.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $356.00/cwt on 50 head. That ranks 1 of 21 comparable sales and sits −115.30 against this barn's trailing median of $471.30.

Average price

$356.00

50 head · 552 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,965

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−5.19

vs IA average

−2.67 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	552	356.00	1,965	50

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

21 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $519.43, low $441.63, median $471.30 across 21 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale50 hd

356.00

—

IA average5 barns · 692 hd

361.19

−5.19

National average173 barns · 15,162 hd

358.67

−2.67

This barn, trailing median21 sales

471.30

−115.30

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot, as filed

33 lots · USDA AMS · Dunlap Livestock Feeder 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
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	685	269.50/cwt	269.50–269.50	1,846	3
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	558	328.00/cwt	328.00–328.00	1,830	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	568	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,789	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	396	385.43/cwt	382.00–387.50	1,526	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	780	261.19/cwt	259.00–265.00	2,037	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	603	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	1,773	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	509	375.35/cwt	367.50–377.00	1,911	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	617	333.62/cwt	320.00–347.50	2,058	61
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	783	284.00/cwt	284.00–284.00	2,224	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	450–500	484	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	1,733	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	600–650	628	323.00/cwt	323.00–323.00	2,028	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	800–850	800	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	2,352	113
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	689	325.22/cwt	317.00–329.50	2,241	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	818	260.63/cwt	255.00–264.00	2,132	21
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	576	345.12/cwt	320.50–358.00	1,988	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	870	253.00/cwt	253.00–253.00	2,201	60
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	713	268.49/cwt	259.00–271.00	1,914	129
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	531	314.00/cwt	314.00–314.00	1,667	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	973	253.25/cwt	253.25–253.25	2,464	13
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	484	401.63/cwt	385.00–417.00	1,944	26
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	463	362.00/cwt	362.00–362.00	1,676	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	411	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,562	14
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	480	343.00/cwt	330.00–356.00	1,646	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	1000–1050	1,027	230.50/cwt	230.50–230.50	2,367	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	700–750	740	312.33/cwt	311.75–316.00	2,311	120
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	746	308.86/cwt	294.50–311.75	2,304	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	867	267.85/cwt	260.25–271.00	2,322	91
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	484	310.15/cwt	291.00–317.00	1,501	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	936	235.00/cwt	235.00–235.00	2,200	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	500–550	545	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,690	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	800–850	817	273.73/cwt	271.00–277.50	2,236	142
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	524	325.77/cwt	321.00–330.00	1,707	40
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	812	255.20/cwt	250.50–256.50	2,072	48

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 Feeder Cattle - Dunlap, IA

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

Receipts 1,314Last week 1,428Year ago 1,918

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	558	328.00	328.00
3	650–700	685	269.50	269.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	350–400	396	382.00–387.50	385.43
14	400–450	411	380.00	380.00
15	450–500	480	330.00–356.00	343.00
40	500–550	524	321.00–330.00	325.77
4	550–600	568	315.00	315.00
9	600–650	603	294.00	294.00
129	700–750	713	259.00–271.00	268.49
8	750–800	780	259.00–265.00	261.19
48	800–850	812	250.50–256.50	255.20
60	850–900	870	253.00	253.00
10	900–950	936	235.00	235.00
16	1000–1050	1,027	230.50	230.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
16	450–500	484	358.00	358.00
19	500–550	545	310.00	310.00
142	800–850	817	271.00–277.50	273.73
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	484	291.00–317.00	310.15
4	500–550	531	314.00	314.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
26	450–500	484	385.00–417.00	401.63
18	500–550	509	367.50–377.00	375.35
32	550–600	576	320.50–358.00	345.12
61	600–650	617	320.00–347.50	333.62
73	650–700	689	317.00–329.50	325.22
41	700–750	746	294.50–311.75	308.86
6	750–800	783	284.00	284.00
21	800–850	818	255.00–264.00	260.63
91	850–900	867	260.25–271.00	267.85
13	950–1000	973	253.25	253.25
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
15	600–650	628	323.00	323.00
120	700–750	740	311.75–316.00	312.33
113	800–850	800	294.00	294.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	450–500	463	362.00	362.00

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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