Name: Walnut Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-07-01
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-07-01

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and slaughter heifers sold .75 to 1.25 higher. No test to last week for slaughter dairy steers. Slaughter cows sold 5.50 higher in a light test. 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
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,100	85.00	935	1thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,487	67.83	1,009	14
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,345	64.93	873	4thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	Low	1,539	106.43	1,638	13
Heifers	Choice	Low	1,199	126.72	1,519	93
Steers	Choice	Average	1,364	126.60	1,726	126
Steers	Select	Average	1,093	76.41	835	2thin

Every lot, as filed

13 lots · USDA AMS · Walnut Auction Sales Slaughter Cattle - Walnut, 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
Heifers	Choice	—	1,470	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	1,691	1
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,630	95.00/cwt	95.00–95.00	1,549	1
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,563	110.85/cwt	110.00–111.00	1,733	6
Steers	Choice	—	1,359	127.03/cwt	122.00–128.75	1,726	123
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,100	85.00/cwt	85.00–85.00	935	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,360	61.79/cwt	61.00–62.50	840	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,460	109.33/cwt	103.00–115.00	1,596	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,508	68.84/cwt	65.00–75.00	1,038	12
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,345	64.93/cwt	62.00–68.00	873	4
Steers	ChoiceHeavy Weight	—	1,735	108.00/cwt	108.00–108.00	1,874	1
Heifers	Choice	—	1,196	126.85/cwt	122.00–128.00	1,517	92
Dairy Steers	Choice	—	1,500	103.92/cwt	100.00–107.00	1,559	6
Steers	Select	—	1,093	76.41/cwt	72.50–80.00	835	2

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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Walnut Auction Sales Slaughter Cattle - Walnut, IL

Thu Jul 1, 2021

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

Receipts 290Last week 220Year ago 100

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,470	115.00	115.00
92	—	1,196	122.00–128.00	126.85
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,630	95.00	95.00
6	—	1,563	110.00–111.00	110.85
6	—	1,500	100.00–107.00	103.92
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
123	—	1,359	122.00–128.75	127.03
2	—	1,460	103.00–115.00	109.33
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,735	108.00	108.00
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,093	72.50–80.00	76.41
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,100	85.00	85.00
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,360	61.00–62.50	61.79
12	—	1,508	65.00–75.00	68.84
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,345	62.00–68.00	64.93

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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