Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2020-03-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-03-09

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers near steady on a very light test. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 lower.

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	1,810	79.76	1,444	10
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,553	62.63	973	24
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,237	56.90	704	30
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	962	49.18	473	55
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,200	111.45	1,337	3thin
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,198	110.63	1,325	8thin

Every lot, as filed

14 lots · USDA AMS · F and T Livestock Market Slaughter Cattle - Palmyra, MO

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	Select and Choice	—	1,200	111.45/cwt	110.00–113.25	1,337	3
Bulls	—	—	1,918	84.81/cwt	82.50–87.50	1,627	6
Bulls	—	—	1,649	72.19/cwt	61.00–81.00	1,190	4
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,275	63.00/cwt	63.00–63.00	803	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,522	54.71/cwt	53.00–55.50	833	3
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,020	60.59/cwt	58.00–62.50	618	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	947	54.65/cwt	52.00–59.00	518	25
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,212	57.94/cwt	55.00–61.50	702	22
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,615	67.29/cwt	65.00–69.50	1,087	11
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,010	46.11/cwt	41.00–51.00	466	17
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,309	52.74/cwt	50.00–54.50	690	7
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,494	59.87/cwt	57.00–63.50	894	10
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	887	34.74/cwt	27.50–39.50	308	9
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,198	110.63/cwt	110.00–111.00	1,325	8

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.

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F and T Livestock Market Slaughter Cattle - Palmyra, MO

Mon Mar 9, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Jefferson City, MO (LS-JC)

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Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers near steady on a very light test. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 lower.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,200	110.00–113.25	111.45
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,918	82.50–87.50	84.81
4	—	1,649	61.00–81.00	72.19
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,275	63.00	63.00
22	—	1,212	55.00–61.50	57.94
7	—	1,309	50.00–54.50	52.74
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,522	53.00–55.50	54.71
11	—	1,615	65.00–69.50	67.29
10	—	1,494	57.00–63.50	59.87
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,020	58.00–62.50	60.59
25	—	947	52.00–59.00	54.65
17	—	1,010	41.00–51.00	46.11
9	—	887	27.50–39.50	34.74
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,198	110.00–111.00	110.63

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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