Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-03-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-03-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the auction from last week, not enough slaughter steers or heifers for a good market test. Slaughter cows traded steady to 3.00 higher.

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	1,818	140.18	2,548	15
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,472	116.18	1,710	21
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Low	1,266	112.95	1,430	29
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Very Low	1,014	99.15	1,005	22
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,350	182.50	2,464	1thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,404	184.15	2,585	7thin

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%	—	1,080	80.00/cwt	80.00–80.00	864	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,358	98.68/cwt	91.00–104.00	1,340	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	953	93.27/cwt	90.00–96.00	889	6
Bulls	—	—	1,405	124.54/cwt	121.00–128.00	1,750	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,262	119.39/cwt	116.00–123.00	1,507	13
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,463	121.75/cwt	120.00–124.50	1,781	6
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,081	112.18/cwt	110.50–114.00	1,213	4
Bulls	—	—	1,989	147.96/cwt	145.00–152.00	2,943	6
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,475	113.95/cwt	109.00–117.00	1,681	15
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,010	101.30/cwt	97.00–107.00	1,023	10
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,240	110.72/cwt	105.00–114.50	1,373	12
Steers	Choice	—	1,404	184.15/cwt	184.00–184.50	2,585	7
Heifers	Choice	—	1,350	182.50/cwt	182.50–182.50	2,464	1
Bulls	—	—	1,789	137.98/cwt	135.00–140.00	2,468	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.

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F and T Livestock Market Slaughter Cattle - Palmyra, MO

Tue Mar 12, 2024

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

Receipts 177Last week 176Year ago 232

Compared to the auction from last week, not enough slaughter steers or heifers for a good market test. Slaughter cows traded steady to 3.00 higher.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,080	80.00	80.00
6	—	953	90.00–96.00	93.27
4	—	1,081	110.50–114.00	112.18
10	—	1,010	97.00–107.00	101.30
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,358	91.00–104.00	98.68
13	—	1,262	116.00–123.00	119.39
12	—	1,240	105.00–114.50	110.72
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,463	120.00–124.50	121.75
15	—	1,475	109.00–117.00	113.95
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,405	121.00–128.00	124.54
6	—	1,989	145.00–152.00	147.96
7	—	1,789	135.00–140.00	137.98
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,404	184.00–184.50	184.15
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,350	182.50	182.50

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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