Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2023-12-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-12-19

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, 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	1,828	108.36	1,980	6thin
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	High	1,808	93.48	1,690	6thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,507	83.93	1,265	30
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Low	1,254	78.19	981	43
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,043	65.40	682	13

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%	—	1,120	80.11/cwt	78.00–82.00	897	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,032	72.25/cwt	68.00–74.00	746	6
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,504	77.44/cwt	73.50–79.00	1,165	4
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,530	88.38/cwt	86.00–90.00	1,352	11
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	2,195	100.00/cwt	100.00–100.00	2,195	1
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,730	92.17/cwt	86.50–96.00	1,595	5
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	920	42.61/cwt	34.00–54.00	392	3
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,183	64.34/cwt	63.00–66.00	761	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,491	82.40/cwt	79.00–86.00	1,229	15
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,238	70.96/cwt	66.00–76.50	878	8
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,235	85.05/cwt	84.00–86.50	1,050	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,260	79.36/cwt	76.00–83.50	1,000	32
Bulls	—	—	1,645	99.00/cwt	99.00–99.00	1,629	1
Bulls	—	—	1,864	110.23/cwt	104.00–118.00	2,055	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

Tue Dec 19, 2023

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

Receipts 174Last week 308Year ago 237

Compared to last week, 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
2	—	1,120	78.00–82.00	80.11
6	—	1,032	68.00–74.00	72.25
3	—	920	34.00–54.00	42.61
2	—	1,183	63.00–66.00	64.34
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,504	73.50–79.00	77.44
11	—	1,530	86.00–90.00	88.38
15	—	1,491	79.00–86.00	82.40
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	2,195	100.00	100.00
5	—	1,730	86.50–96.00	92.17
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,238	66.00–76.50	70.96
3	—	1,235	84.00–86.50	85.05
32	—	1,260	76.00–83.50	79.36
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,645	99.00	99.00
5	—	1,864	104.00–118.00	110.23

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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