Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2021-05-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-05-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the auction from two weeks ago, too few slaughter steers and heifers for a test. Slaughter cows steady.

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	1,974	85.03	1,678	8thin
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,682	71.29	1,199	5thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,511	64.80	979	23
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Low	1,248	63.72	795	25
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	1,070	56.71	607	26

Every lot, as filed

12 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	Lean 85-90%	—	930	35.62/cwt	31.00–42.50	331	3
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,031	50.67/cwt	48.00–54.50	522	5
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,439	60.95/cwt	57.50–62.50	877	6
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,209	60.25/cwt	58.50–63.50	728	9
Bulls	—	—	1,540	69.26/cwt	65.00–73.50	1,067	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,685	70.50/cwt	70.50–70.50	1,188	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,265	69.50/cwt	69.50–69.50	879	1
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,682	71.29/cwt	69.50–72.50	1,199	5
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,104	61.90/cwt	57.00–65.50	683	18
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,527	65.89/cwt	63.50–69.50	1,006	16
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,270	65.41/cwt	62.50–68.50	831	15
Bulls	—	—	2,118	90.29/cwt	85.00–96.50	1,912	6

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 May 3, 2021

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

Receipts 126Last week 99Year ago 140

Compared to the auction from two weeks ago, too few slaughter steers and heifers for a test. Slaughter cows steady.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	930	31.00–42.50	35.62
5	—	1,031	48.00–54.50	50.67
18	—	1,104	57.00–65.50	61.90
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,439	57.50–62.50	60.95
1	—	1,685	70.50	70.50
16	—	1,527	63.50–69.50	65.89
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,209	58.50–63.50	60.25
1	—	1,265	69.50	69.50
15	—	1,270	62.50–68.50	65.41
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,682	69.50–72.50	71.29
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,540	65.00–73.50	69.26
6	—	2,118	85.00–96.50	90.29

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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