Sale reports / Missouri / Callaway Livestock Center / 2022-08-22

Callaway Livestock Center

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Kingdom City, Missouri · Mon, Aug 22
● Final50 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1819
Feeder Cattle receipts
1,301 head
▲ 680 vs last sale 621▼ 100 vs year ago 1,401 · −7.1%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
147 head
▲ 27 vs last sale 120▲ 42 vs year ago 105 · +40.0%
Also sold hereReplacement Cattle SpecialThu Oct 1, 2026
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week's light offering steer calves sold fully steady to firm with feeder heifers under 600 lbs selling with a sharply higher undertone on last week's light test and heifers over 600 lbs sold with a firm to higher undertone. Mostly calves this week weighing 400-700 lbs selling with very good demand especially the heifers weighing 400-550 lbs and steers 400-650 lbs all sold on and active market. Slaughter cows sold steady to firm.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $185.77/cwt on 576 head. That ranks 1 of 9 comparable sales and sits −66.14 against this barn's trailing median of $251.91.
Average price
$185.77
576 head · 581 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,079
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$122
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$30.67/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+9.13
vs MO average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1593187.861,114426
Medium and Large 1-2536182.55978134
Medium and Large 2631157.1999216thin
One grade step is worth $30.67/cwt here — about $122 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 0–100 lb

9 sales
271254237220median 251.9102/0903/3005/1806/0806/29
Heifers 0–100 lb: high $257.10, low $233.50, median $251.91 across 9 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale576 hd
185.77
—
MO average15 barns · 6,875 hd
176.64
+9.13
This barn, trailing median9 sales
251.91
−66.14
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Low1,754112.091,96611
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,46992.431,35821
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,23990.601,12339
CowsPremium White 65-75%Average1,71587.001,4921thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,04481.5385146

Every lot, as filed

50 lots · USDA AMS · Callaway Livestock Center - Kingdom City, MO
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
SteersMedium and Large 1—670203.54/cwt198.00–205.001,36448
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Unweaned—532191.00/cwt189.00–194.001,01612
SteersMedium and Large 1—527215.67/cwt209.00–222.001,13745
BullsMedium and Large 1—385230.00/cwt230.00–230.008864
HeifersMedium and Large 1—587186.67/cwt178.00–190.001,096106
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—577176.02/cwt173.00–180.001,01638
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—626173.24/cwt170.00–177.001,08412
HeifersMedium and Large 2—721145.00/cwt145.00–145.001,0454
HeifersMedium and Large 1—624180.49/cwt175.00–182.001,12667
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—610201.51/cwt199.50–202.001,22915
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—776172.24/cwt170.00–176.001,33713
SteersMedium and Large 1—377225.14/cwt217.50–231.0084915
SteersMedium and Large 1—480219.97/cwt216.00–227.001,05627
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—513204.00/cwt200.00–207.001,04714
SteersMedium and Large 1—426227.48/cwt218.50–235.0096928
SteersMedium and Large 1—733188.44/cwt182.00–189.001,38138
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—485204.87/cwt195.00–211.0099421
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—574197.06/cwt193.00–199.501,13110
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—444207.98/cwt200.00–211.0092311
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—729175.40/cwt175.00–176.001,27912
HeifersMedium and Large 1—324220.48/cwt213.00–227.0071414
HeifersMedium and Large 1—418208.56/cwt204.00–213.0087220
HeifersMedium and Large 1—478204.06/cwt200.00–208.0097531
HeifersMedium and Large 1—523195.04/cwt188.00–200.001,02055
SteersMedium and Large 1—564214.28/cwt207.00–217.501,20952
CowsLean 85-90%—1,04881.99/cwt76.00–85.0085913
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,54580.51/cwt76.00–84.501,2442
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,47496.64/cwt94.00–101.501,42412
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,44088.63/cwt86.00–91.001,2767
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,21387.90/cwt85.00–90.001,06619
CowsLean 85-90%—99656.89/cwt48.00–60.005676
CowsPremium White 65-75%—1,71587.00/cwt87.00–87.001,4921
CowsLean 85-90%—1,02369.17/cwt66.00–73.007084
CowsLean 85-90%—1,05889.85/cwt84.50–95.0095123
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,26280.32/cwt78.00–83.001,0143
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,26495.43/cwt91.00–103.001,20617
Bulls——1,59596.53/cwt96.00–97.001,5402
Bulls——1,789120.12/cwt116.00–126.002,1495
Bulls——1,790109.83/cwt105.00–113.001,9664
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—708169.50/cwt169.50–169.501,2008
HeifersMedium and Large 2—642157.50/cwt157.50–157.501,0116
HeifersMedium and Large 2—561165.00/cwt165.00–165.009266
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—473189.80/cwt181.00–197.0089814
HeifersMedium and Large 1Thin Fleshed—474219.74/cwt219.00–220.001,04212
HeifersMedium and Large 1—385209.52/cwt209.00–210.008076
HeifersMedium and Large 1—732173.41/cwt172.75–174.501,269115
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—392199.40/cwt199.00–200.007825
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—531183.25/cwt178.00–188.0097339
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—411196.54/cwt195.00–198.0080818
SteersMedium and Large 1—633209.56/cwt200.50–214.001,32759

How this sale compares

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