Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2020-09-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-09-21

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, no test on slaughter steers and heifers. Slaughter cows steady. One consignment consisting of cows fed hard for 120 days.

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	—	Low	1,686	84.37	1,422	12
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,640	77.83	1,276	22
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,471	65.63	966	39
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,229	60.10	738	32
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	1,018	53.70	547	34

Every lot, as filed

13 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
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,640	77.83/cwt	75.00–80.25	1,276	22
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,453	71.89/cwt	67.00–74.50	1,045	12
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,468	64.82/cwt	61.00–68.00	952	19
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	998	39.02/cwt	37.00–43.00	389	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,300	65.87/cwt	65.50–66.25	856	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,055	68.02/cwt	67.00–69.50	718	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,221	55.82/cwt	52.00–57.50	682	8
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,021	58.35/cwt	56.00–61.00	596	13
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,225	61.13/cwt	58.00–63.75	749	22
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,012	49.74/cwt	45.00–54.50	503	15
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,507	58.17/cwt	55.00–61.00	877	8
Bulls	—	—	1,484	78.66/cwt	76.00–82.00	1,167	5
Bulls	—	—	1,830	88.45/cwt	83.50–92.50	1,619	7

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 Sep 21, 2020

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

Receipts 245Last week 228Year ago 80

Compared to last week, no test on slaughter steers and heifers. Slaughter cows steady. One consignment consisting of cows fed hard for 120 days.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
22	—	1,640	75.00–80.25	77.83
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,453	67.00–74.50	71.89
19	—	1,468	61.00–68.00	64.82
8	—	1,507	55.00–61.00	58.17
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	998	37.00–43.00	39.02
3	—	1,055	67.00–69.50	68.02
13	—	1,021	56.00–61.00	58.35
15	—	1,012	45.00–54.50	49.74
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,300	65.50–66.25	65.87
8	—	1,221	52.00–57.50	55.82
22	—	1,225	58.00–63.75	61.13
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,484	76.00–82.00	78.66
7	—	1,830	83.50–92.50	88.45

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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