Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2022-04-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-04-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the auction from last week, slaughter steers and heifers traded 1.00-2.00 higher on a very light 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	—	Average	1,875	104.17	1,953	5thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,531	84.00	1,286	26
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,256	81.69	1,026	25
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,087	68.96	750	33
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,255	145.00	1,820	2thin
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,087	134.50	1,462	3thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,309	146.66	1,920	6thin

Every lot, as filed

15 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	Boner 80-85%	—	1,229	81.14/cwt	78.50–86.50	997	13
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,272	88.81/cwt	86.00–90.50	1,130	7
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,309	74.72/cwt	72.50–76.00	978	4
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,275	67.00/cwt	67.00–67.00	854	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,523	88.98/cwt	88.00–90.00	1,355	6
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,088	83.24/cwt	82.50–84.00	906	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,097	66.57/cwt	59.50–69.50	730	18
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	998	54.63/cwt	49.00–57.50	545	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,113	75.13/cwt	71.50–77.50	836	7
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,425	76.40/cwt	74.50–78.50	1,089	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,552	83.58/cwt	81.00–86.50	1,297	17
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,087	134.50/cwt	134.50–134.50	1,462	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,255	145.00/cwt	145.00–145.00	1,820	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,309	146.66/cwt	146.50–147.00	1,920	6
Bulls	—	—	1,875	104.17/cwt	100.00–110.50	1,953	5

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 Apr 4, 2022

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 last week, slaughter steers and heifers traded 1.00-2.00 higher on a very light test. Slaughter cows steady.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,229	78.50–86.50	81.14
7	—	1,272	86.00–90.50	88.81
4	—	1,309	72.50–76.00	74.72
1	—	1,275	67.00	67.00
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,523	88.00–90.00	88.98
3	—	1,425	74.50–78.50	76.40
17	—	1,552	81.00–86.50	83.58
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,088	82.50–84.00	83.24
18	—	1,097	59.50–69.50	66.57
4	—	998	49.00–57.50	54.63
7	—	1,113	71.50–77.50	75.13
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,087	134.50	134.50
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,255	145.00	145.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,309	146.50–147.00	146.66
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,875	100.00–110.50	104.17

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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