Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2021-03-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-03-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter steers and heifers traded 2.00-3.00 lower compared with the last tested auction from two weeks ago. Slaughter cows steady with last week.

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	1,847	85.02	1,571	17
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,475	58.92	869	14
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,253	57.61	722	25
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,086	45.50	494	19
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,296	112.20	1,454	29
Steers	Choice	Average	1,265	113.07	1,430	32

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	—	—	1,724	74.85/cwt	71.00–78.00	1,290	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,120	58.50/cwt	58.50–58.50	655	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,158	62.56/cwt	62.00–63.50	724	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,475	62.71/cwt	62.00–63.50	925	2
Bulls	—	—	1,990	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,851	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,242	58.85/cwt	56.50–61.00	731	15
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	953	19.30/cwt	10.00–30.00	184	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,173	47.43/cwt	45.00–50.00	556	4
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,325	55.00/cwt	55.00–55.00	729	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,318	52.82/cwt	50.00–55.75	696	7
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,489	58.59/cwt	57.00–60.50	872	11
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,101	53.90/cwt	50.00–57.00	593	10
Steers	Choice	—	1,568	110.00/cwt	110.00–110.00	1,725	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,245	113.27/cwt	112.00–114.25	1,410	30
Heifers	Choice	—	1,296	112.20/cwt	110.00–114.00	1,454	29
Bulls	—	—	1,866	87.27/cwt	80.50–89.50	1,628	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 8, 2021

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

Receipts 276Last week 163Year ago 247

Slaughter steers and heifers traded 2.00-3.00 lower compared with the last tested auction from two weeks ago. Slaughter cows steady with last week.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,724	71.00–78.00	74.85
2	—	1,990	93.00	93.00
11	—	1,866	80.50–89.50	87.27
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,120	58.50	58.50
4	—	953	10.00–30.00	19.30
4	—	1,173	45.00–50.00	47.43
10	—	1,101	50.00–57.00	53.90
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,158	62.00–63.50	62.56
15	—	1,242	56.50–61.00	58.85
7	—	1,318	50.00–55.75	52.82
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,475	62.00–63.50	62.71
1	—	1,325	55.00	55.00
11	—	1,489	57.00–60.50	58.59
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,568	110.00	110.00
30	—	1,245	112.00–114.25	113.27
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,296	110.00–114.00	112.20

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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