Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2020-03-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-03-30

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the auction from two weeks ago, slaughter cows traded steady. Slaughter steer and heifer trend not established due to too few head at recent sales for a comparison.

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	1,702	80.48	1,369	18
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,508	61.44	927	18
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,261	58.22	734	29
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,065	47.81	509	34
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,302	112.43	1,463	28
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,350	110.69	1,494	4thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,406	113.68	1,598	31
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,284	111.45	1,431	7thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,182	107.78	1,274	11

Every lot, as filed

19 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
Bulls	—	—	1,667	83.73/cwt	78.00–91.50	1,396	14
Bulls	—	—	1,823	69.09/cwt	62.00–76.50	1,260	4
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,350	110.69/cwt	110.50–110.75	1,494	4
Heifers	Choice	—	1,288	113.18/cwt	112.00–114.25	1,458	16
Heifers	Choice	—	1,320	111.42/cwt	111.25–111.50	1,471	12
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,360	66.00/cwt	66.00–66.00	898	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,848	71.38/cwt	68.25–74.00	1,319	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,163	62.03/cwt	61.50–63.75	721	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,046	46.28/cwt	42.00–51.50	484	13
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,260	61.50/cwt	58.50–64.25	775	16
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,453	62.27/cwt	57.50–65.50	905	12
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,038	36.97/cwt	25.00–42.75	384	9
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,255	53.21/cwt	50.00–56.50	668	12
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,505	53.96/cwt	53.00–55.00	812	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,077	55.37/cwt	53.00–58.00	596	8
Steers	Choice	—	1,445	111.75/cwt	111.75–111.75	1,615	7
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,284	111.45/cwt	111.25–112.00	1,431	7
Steers	Choice	—	1,394	114.24/cwt	112.50–114.75	1,593	24
Steers	Select	—	1,182	107.78/cwt	105.50–111.50	1,274	11

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 30, 2020

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

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Compared to the auction from two weeks ago, slaughter cows traded steady. Slaughter steer and heifer trend not established due to too few head at recent sales for a comparison.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,667	78.00–91.50	83.73
4	—	1,823	62.00–76.50	69.09
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,350	110.50–110.75	110.69
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,288	112.00–114.25	113.18
12	—	1,320	111.25–111.50	111.42
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,360	66.00	66.00
16	—	1,260	58.50–64.25	61.50
12	—	1,255	50.00–56.50	53.21
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,848	68.25–74.00	71.38
12	—	1,453	57.50–65.50	62.27
4	—	1,505	53.00–55.00	53.96
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,163	61.50–63.75	62.03
13	—	1,046	42.00–51.50	46.28
9	—	1,038	25.00–42.75	36.97
8	—	1,077	53.00–58.00	55.37
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,445	111.75	111.75
24	—	1,394	112.50–114.75	114.24
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,284	111.25–112.00	111.45
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,182	105.50–111.50	107.78

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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