Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2022-04-11
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-04-11

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the auction from last week, slaughter steers and heifers traded 2.00-3.00 lower on a light test. Slaughter cows 1.00-3.00 lower. A heavy run of slaughter cows offered as this weeks replacement cow special brought in cows of all types.

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	1,788	107.10	1,915	16
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,531	81.05	1,241	38
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,255	78.41	984	50
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	1,058	70.15	742	57
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,215	141.29	1,717	6thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,364	141.99	1,937	6thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,349	125.62	1,695	5thin

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
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,749	86.21/cwt	84.50–88.00	1,508	5
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,491	81.30/cwt	78.00–84.00	1,212	28
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,020	47.99/cwt	44.00–54.50	489	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,065	64.68/cwt	58.00–69.00	689	23
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,051	83.19/cwt	79.50–86.00	874	10
Heifers	Choice	—	1,215	141.29/cwt	140.50–142.00	1,717	6
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,057	71.96/cwt	68.00–77.00	761	22
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,538	74.48/cwt	74.00–75.50	1,146	5
Steers	Select	—	1,349	125.62/cwt	121.00–132.00	1,695	5
Steers	Choice	—	1,364	141.99/cwt	141.50–143.00	1,937	6
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,285	86.16/cwt	84.50–89.50	1,107	9
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,241	78.84/cwt	76.50–83.50	978	28
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,263	72.13/cwt	70.00–75.50	911	13
Bulls	—	—	1,528	93.02/cwt	85.00–98.00	1,421	4
Bulls	—	—	1,947	117.53/cwt	113.00–120.50	2,288	5
Bulls	—	—	1,824	107.70/cwt	101.00–111.00	1,964	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.

Missouri feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

F and T Livestock Market Slaughter Cattle - Palmyra, MO

Mon Apr 11, 2022

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

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Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,749	84.50–88.00	86.21
28	—	1,491	78.00–84.00	81.30
5	—	1,538	74.00–75.50	74.48
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,020	44.00–54.50	47.99
23	—	1,065	58.00–69.00	64.68
10	—	1,051	79.50–86.00	83.19
22	—	1,057	68.00–77.00	71.96
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,285	84.50–89.50	86.16
28	—	1,241	76.50–83.50	78.84
13	—	1,263	70.00–75.50	72.13
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,215	140.50–142.00	141.29
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,349	121.00–132.00	125.62
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,364	141.50–143.00	141.99
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,528	85.00–98.00	93.02
5	—	1,947	113.00–120.50	117.53
7	—	1,824	101.00–111.00	107.70

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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