Name: Greenville Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2019-08-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-08-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and slaughter heifers sold 8.50 to 9.00 lower. Slaughter dairy steers sold 1.75 lower. Trade was active with soft 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
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,340	85.09	1,140	2thin
Dairy Heifers	Choice	Average	1,227	77.69	953	3thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	High	1,426	86.17	1,228	39
Dairy Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,360	78.46	1,067	3thin
Heifers	Choice	Low	1,157	106.87	1,236	59
Heifers	Select and Choice	Low	1,076	100.18	1,078	8thin
Steers	Choice	High	1,322	107.12	1,416	96
Steers	Select and Choice	Low	1,227	100.01	1,227	19
Steers	Select	Average	1,000	83.06	831	2thin

Every lot, as filed

16 lots · USDA AMS · Greenville Livestock Cattle Auction - Greenville, 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
Dairy Heifers	Choice	—	1,227	77.69/cwt	74.00–84.00	953	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,309	112.28/cwt	112.00–113.00	1,470	7
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,340	85.09/cwt	80.00–90.00	1,140	2
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,364	90.76/cwt	90.00–93.00	1,238	7
Steers	Choice	—	1,285	101.80/cwt	100.00–104.00	1,308	12
Heifers	Choice	—	1,119	100.82/cwt	96.00–103.00	1,128	5
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,439	85.17/cwt	82.00–89.00	1,226	32
Steers	Choice	—	1,329	107.48/cwt	105.00–111.00	1,428	77
Heifers	Choice	—	1,202	111.55/cwt	111.00–113.00	1,341	6
Dairy Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,360	78.46/cwt	75.00–80.00	1,067	3
Steers	Select	—	1,000	83.06/cwt	80.00–86.00	831	2
Heifers	Choice	—	1,155	106.92/cwt	104.00–110.00	1,235	48
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,152	89.31/cwt	86.00–91.00	1,029	3
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,085	91.00/cwt	91.00–91.00	987	1
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,241	102.02/cwt	100.00–104.00	1,266	16
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,075	101.49/cwt	100.00–103.00	1,091	7

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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Greenville Livestock Cattle Auction - Greenville, IL

Wed Aug 14, 2019

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

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Compared to last week, slaughter steers and slaughter heifers sold 8.50 to 9.00 lower. Slaughter dairy steers sold 1.75 lower. Trade was active with soft demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,227	74.00–84.00	77.69
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,309	112.00–113.00	112.28
12	—	1,285	100.00–104.00	101.80
77	—	1,329	105.00–111.00	107.48
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,000	80.00–86.00	83.06
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,152	86.00–91.00	89.31
16	—	1,241	100.00–104.00	102.02
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,340	80.00–90.00	85.09
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,364	90.00–93.00	90.76
32	—	1,439	82.00–89.00	85.17
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,360	75.00–80.00	78.46
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,119	96.00–103.00	100.82
6	—	1,202	111.00–113.00	111.55
48	—	1,155	104.00–110.00	106.92
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,085	91.00	91.00
7	—	1,075	100.00–103.00	101.49

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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