Name: Fairview Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-02-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-02-09

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Cold weather and bad roads kept the numbers down today. Slaughter steers and slaughter heifers sold 3.00 to 3.50 higher. Slaughter cows sold 3.50 to 5.00 higher with a high percentage of fed cows. Slaughter bulls sold 10.00 higher. Trade was active with 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
Bulls	—	Average	1,518	82.09	1,246	11
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	High	1,592	76.00	1,210	35
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,262	65.17	822	37
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,542	64.70	998	17
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,128	56.30	635	5thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,326	116.21	1,541	23
Heifers	Select	Average	1,015	72.50	736	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,397	116.90	1,633	21

Every lot, as filed

21 lots · USDA AMS · Fairview Sale Barn Slaughter Cattle - Fairview, IL

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	—	—	1,848	94.90/cwt	93.50–96.50	1,754	4
Bulls	—	—	1,405	101.50/cwt	101.50–101.50	1,426	1
Bulls	—	—	1,316	70.31/cwt	58.50–81.50	925	6
Heifers	Select	—	1,110	58.00/cwt	58.00–58.00	644	1
Heifers	SelectReturn to Feed	—	920	87.00/cwt	87.00–87.00	800	1
Steers	Choice	—	1,397	116.90/cwt	114.50–118.00	1,633	21
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,423	91.62/cwt	87.50–98.00	1,304	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%Return to Feed	—	1,163	69.18/cwt	58.50–82.00	805	9
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,573	54.96/cwt	52.00–57.50	865	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,575	63.96/cwt	59.00–68.00	1,007	10
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,749	65.41/cwt	63.50–69.00	1,144	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,128	50.74/cwt	47.00–55.00	572	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,238	55.92/cwt	55.50–56.50	692	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,438	73.84/cwt	70.50–77.50	1,062	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%Return to Feed	—	1,090	62.50/cwt	62.50–62.50	681	1
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,600	74.62/cwt	67.00–83.50	1,194	26
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,130	58.50/cwt	58.50–58.50	661	1
Cows	Lean 85-90%Return to Feed	—	1,165	59.00/cwt	59.00–59.00	687	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,326	116.21/cwt	113.50–118.50	1,541	23
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,294	62.02/cwt	57.50–67.50	803	20
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,309	72.76/cwt	67.00–76.00	952	6

How this sale compares

Illinois weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Illinois auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

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Fairview Sale Barn Slaughter Cattle - Fairview, IL

Tue Feb 9, 2021

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Springfield, IL (LS-GX)

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Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,848	93.50–96.50	94.90
1	—	1,405	101.50	101.50
6	—	1,316	58.50–81.50	70.31
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,110	58.00	58.00
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	920	87.00	87.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,326	113.50–118.50	116.21
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,397	114.50–118.00	116.90
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,423	87.50–98.00	91.62
4	—	1,749	63.50–69.00	65.41
26	—	1,600	67.00–83.50	74.62
Cows — Boner 80-85% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,163	58.50–82.00	69.18
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,573	52.00–57.50	54.96
10	—	1,575	59.00–68.00	63.96
4	—	1,438	70.50–77.50	73.84
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,128	47.00–55.00	50.74
1	—	1,130	58.50	58.50
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,238	55.50–56.50	55.92
20	—	1,294	57.50–67.50	62.02
6	—	1,309	67.00–76.00	72.76
Cows — Lean 85-90% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,090	62.50	62.50
1	—	1,165	59.00	59.00

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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