Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-11-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-26

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	1,684	151.06	2,543	4thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Very Low	1,508	121.91	1,838	29
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Very Low	1,251	112.14	1,403	20
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,050	92.14	967	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,347	184.50	2,485	6thin

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	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,615	95.00/cwt	95.00–95.00	1,534	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,535	107.52/cwt	106.00–109.00	1,650	2
Steers	Choice	—	1,347	184.50/cwt	184.50–184.50	2,485	6
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,484	126.97/cwt	123.00–132.50	1,884	17
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,535	118.53/cwt	113.00–122.00	1,819	9
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	998	102.90/cwt	100.00–105.00	1,027	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,103	73.88/cwt	70.00–78.00	815	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,075	90.52/cwt	87.00–94.00	973	4
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,205	97.00/cwt	97.00–97.00	1,169	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,278	104.21/cwt	98.00–109.00	1,332	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,306	121.41/cwt	119.00–124.00	1,586	4
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,221	113.91/cwt	109.00–119.00	1,391	10
Bulls	—	—	1,550	146.00/cwt	146.00–146.00	2,263	1
Bulls	—	—	1,728	152.75/cwt	149.00–155.00	2,640	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.

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F and T Livestock Market Slaughter Cattle - Palmyra, MO

Tue Nov 26, 2024

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

Receipts 107Last week 132Year ago 130

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 — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,615	95.00	95.00
2	—	1,535	106.00–109.00	107.52
17	—	1,484	123.00–132.50	126.97
9	—	1,535	113.00–122.00	118.53
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	998	100.00–105.00	102.90
2	—	1,103	70.00–78.00	73.88
4	—	1,075	87.00–94.00	90.52
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,205	97.00	97.00
5	—	1,278	98.00–109.00	104.21
4	—	1,306	119.00–124.00	121.41
10	—	1,221	109.00–119.00	113.91
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,347	184.50	184.50
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,550	146.00	146.00
3	—	1,728	149.00–155.00	152.75

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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