Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-01-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-01-09

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First sale of the new year, with no recent sales for good comparisons. Slaughter steers and heifers did trade with a sharply higher undertone when looking back to mid December.

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	1,880	117.09	2,201	2thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,550	88.20	1,367	20
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Low	1,275	86.38	1,102	35
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	978	77.37	757	28
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,302	176.86	2,303	15
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,351	166.62	2,251	5thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,418	175.39	2,487	21
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,457	167.48	2,440	5thin

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
Steers	Select and Choice	—	1,457	167.48/cwt	164.00–172.00	2,440	5
Steers	Choice	—	1,418	175.39/cwt	173.50–178.00	2,487	21
Heifers	Select and Choice	—	1,351	166.62/cwt	166.00–168.00	2,251	5
Heifers	Choice	—	1,302	176.86/cwt	174.00–178.50	2,303	15
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	860	61.99/cwt	61.00–64.00	533	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,039	68.34/cwt	66.00–73.00	710	7
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,004	87.46/cwt	86.00–89.00	878	8
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	961	82.26/cwt	77.00–85.00	791	9
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,680	92.80/cwt	92.00–94.00	1,559	6
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,467	88.23/cwt	85.00–91.00	1,294	9
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,543	82.63/cwt	81.50–83.00	1,275	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,317	74.91/cwt	72.50–79.00	987	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,224	89.79/cwt	89.00–91.00	1,099	9
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,290	86.54/cwt	82.00–89.50	1,116	23
Bulls	—	—	1,880	117.09/cwt	116.00–118.00	2,201	2

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 Jan 9, 2024

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

Receipts 215Last week 174Year ago 346

First sale of the new year, with no recent sales for good comparisons. Slaughter steers and heifers did trade with a sharply higher undertone when looking back to mid December.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,457	164.00–172.00	167.48
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,418	173.50–178.00	175.39
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,351	166.00–168.00	166.62
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,302	174.00–178.50	176.86
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	860	61.00–64.00	61.99
7	—	1,039	66.00–73.00	68.34
8	—	1,004	86.00–89.00	87.46
9	—	961	77.00–85.00	82.26
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,680	92.00–94.00	92.80
9	—	1,467	85.00–91.00	88.23
5	—	1,543	81.50–83.00	82.63
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,317	72.50–79.00	74.91
9	—	1,224	89.00–91.00	89.79
23	—	1,290	82.00–89.50	86.54
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,880	116.00–118.00	117.09

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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