Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2023-11-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-11-21

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, too few slaughter steers and heifers for a test. Slaughter cows 4.00-6.00 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	1,976	115.50	2,283	8thin
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,732	90.20	1,562	7thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,474	81.73	1,204	26
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,262	78.39	989	30
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,048	70.07	734	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,296	177.50	2,300	4thin

Every lot, as filed

14 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%	—	1,018	83.02/cwt	82.50–83.50	845	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,108	77.90/cwt	75.00–81.50	863	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,296	177.50/cwt	177.50–177.50	2,300	4
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,458	76.33/cwt	71.50–78.00	1,113	4
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,563	85.49/cwt	85.00–86.00	1,336	5
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,732	90.20/cwt	88.00–91.50	1,562	7
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	973	55.04/cwt	52.00–60.00	536	3
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,098	67.92/cwt	66.00–70.00	746	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,451	81.90/cwt	79.00–84.50	1,188	17
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,255	79.91/cwt	77.00–83.50	1,003	21
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,282	73.44/cwt	68.00–76.50	942	8
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,240	86.00/cwt	86.00–86.00	1,066	1
Bulls	—	—	1,800	99.23/cwt	88.50–109.00	1,786	2
Bulls	—	—	2,035	120.92/cwt	114.00–126.00	2,461	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

Tue Nov 21, 2023

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

Receipts 130Last week 279Year ago 18

Compared to last week, too few slaughter steers and heifers for a test. Slaughter cows 4.00-6.00 lower.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,018	82.50–83.50	83.02
3	—	1,108	75.00–81.50	77.90
3	—	973	52.00–60.00	55.04
2	—	1,098	66.00–70.00	67.92
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,458	71.50–78.00	76.33
5	—	1,563	85.00–86.00	85.49
17	—	1,451	79.00–84.50	81.90
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,732	88.00–91.50	90.20
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,255	77.00–83.50	79.91
8	—	1,282	68.00–76.50	73.44
1	—	1,240	86.00	86.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,296	177.50	177.50
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,800	88.50–109.00	99.23
6	—	2,035	114.00–126.00	120.92

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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