Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2020-12-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-12-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers and cows traded steady to 1.00 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	—	Low	1,810	75.03	1,358	13
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,525	53.99	823	40
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,262	49.42	624	34
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	1,162	41.47	482	18
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,263	102.23	1,291	6thin
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,146	98.79	1,132	12
Steers	Choice	Average	1,339	101.17	1,355	6thin
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,271	99.61	1,266	16
Steers	Select	Average	1,135	93.00	1,056	2thin
Steers	Standard	Average	1,221	82.87	1,012	7thin

Every lot, as filed

16 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	—	—	1,478	64.93/cwt	56.50–69.00	960	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,616	63.09/cwt	60.00–66.00	1,020	8
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,527	53.67/cwt	49.50–57.50	820	22
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,238	51.49/cwt	49.50–53.50	637	19
Heifers	Choice	—	1,263	102.23/cwt	101.50–102.50	1,291	6
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,271	99.61/cwt	98.00–101.00	1,266	16
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,152	27.98/cwt	21.00–37.00	322	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,292	46.79/cwt	45.00–50.00	605	15
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,449	47.41/cwt	45.00–49.00	687	10
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,184	39.87/cwt	37.50–42.00	472	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,156	45.73/cwt	43.50–50.50	529	11
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,146	98.79/cwt	98.50–100.00	1,132	12
Steers	Choice	—	1,339	101.17/cwt	101.00–101.50	1,355	6
Steers	Standard	—	1,221	82.87/cwt	82.00–84.00	1,012	7
Steers	Select	—	1,135	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,056	2
Bulls	—	—	1,910	78.06/cwt	75.00–81.00	1,491	10

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 Dec 14, 2020

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

Receipts 257Last week 183Year ago 221

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers and cows traded steady to 1.00 lower.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,478	56.50–69.00	64.93
10	—	1,910	75.00–81.00	78.06
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,616	60.00–66.00	63.09
22	—	1,527	49.50–57.50	53.67
10	—	1,449	45.00–49.00	47.41
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,238	49.50–53.50	51.49
15	—	1,292	45.00–50.00	46.79
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,152	21.00–37.00	27.98
4	—	1,184	37.50–42.00	39.87
11	—	1,156	43.50–50.50	45.73
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,263	101.50–102.50	102.23
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,146	98.50–100.00	98.79
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,271	98.00–101.00	99.61
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,339	101.00–101.50	101.17
Steers — Standard$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,221	82.00–84.00	82.87
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,135	93.00	93.00

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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