Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-10-22
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-22

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers and slaughter cows all steady on a light test. Farmers continue to be busy rapping up crop harvest with the fall run of slaughter cows still to come as producers start weaning calves and culling cows.

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	1,777	146.00	2,594	8thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,474	129.35	1,907	8thin
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Very Low	1,304	117.90	1,537	16
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Low	1,075	97.48	1,048	6thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,226	186.00	2,280	3thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,419	187.35	2,658	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	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,042	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,568	134.07/cwt	133.50–135.00	2,102	3
Steers	Choice	—	1,419	187.35/cwt	185.00–188.00	2,658	13
Heifers	Choice	—	1,226	186.00/cwt	186.00–186.00	2,280	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,418	126.52/cwt	125.00–128.00	1,794	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,385	99.00/cwt	99.00–99.00	1,371	1
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,022	110.13/cwt	106.00–113.00	1,126	3
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,133	80.73/cwt	79.00–82.00	915	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,325	113.00/cwt	113.00–113.00	1,497	3
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,265	126.00/cwt	126.00–126.00	1,594	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,294	120.22/cwt	117.00–124.00	1,556	11
Bulls	—	—	1,646	137.96/cwt	130.00–145.00	2,271	4
Bulls	—	—	2,185	163.00/cwt	163.00–163.00	3,562	1
Bulls	—	—	1,815	151.04/cwt	149.00–153.00	2,741	3

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

Tue Oct 22, 2024

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

Receipts 80Last week 49Year ago 220

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,120	93.00	93.00
3	—	1,022	106.00–113.00	110.13
2	—	1,133	79.00–82.00	80.73
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,568	133.50–135.00	134.07
5	—	1,418	125.00–128.00	126.52
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,385	99.00	99.00
3	—	1,325	113.00	113.00
1	—	1,265	126.00	126.00
11	—	1,294	117.00–124.00	120.22
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,419	185.00–188.00	187.35
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,226	186.00	186.00
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,646	130.00–145.00	137.96
1	—	2,185	163.00	163.00
3	—	1,815	149.00–153.00	151.04

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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