Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-02-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last weeks record high market, slaughter steers and heifers 2.00-3.00 lower. 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	1,500	170.22	2,553	45
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,602	145.70	2,334	8thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,504	136.86	2,059	35
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Very Low	1,284	135.17	1,736	32
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,054	119.11	1,256	17
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,443	206.00	2,973	11
Steers	Choice	Average	1,418	205.23	2,910	39
Steers	Select	Average	1,253	198.36	2,485	3thin

Every lot, as filed

17 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%	—	1,137	123.28/cwt	119.00–127.00	1,402	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,583	126.81/cwt	122.00–131.00	2,007	4
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,469	142.24/cwt	139.00–154.00	2,090	12
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,510	135.58/cwt	131.00–139.00	2,047	19
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	—	1,602	145.70/cwt	143.00–149.00	2,334	8
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	965	103.00/cwt	103.00–103.00	994	1
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,056	110.28/cwt	105.00–114.00	1,165	8
Steers	Choice	—	1,418	205.23/cwt	203.00–208.00	2,910	39
Steers	Select	—	1,253	198.36/cwt	198.00–199.00	2,485	3
Heifers	Choice	—	1,443	206.00/cwt	202.00–208.00	2,973	11
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,020	133.97/cwt	130.00–139.00	1,366	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,340	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	1,541	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,275	123.42/cwt	118.00–128.00	1,574	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,328	143.08/cwt	140.00–148.00	1,900	10
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,256	135.15/cwt	129.00–139.00	1,697	16
Bulls	—	—	1,422	153.94/cwt	143.00–160.00	2,189	7
Bulls	—	—	1,514	173.22/cwt	165.00–181.00	2,623	38

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 Feb 4, 2025

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

Receipts 289Last week 196Year ago 452

Compared to last weeks record high market, slaughter steers and heifers 2.00-3.00 lower. Slaughter cows steady.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,137	119.00–127.00	123.28
1	—	965	103.00	103.00
8	—	1,056	105.00–114.00	110.28
5	—	1,020	130.00–139.00	133.97
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,583	122.00–131.00	126.81
12	—	1,469	139.00–154.00	142.24
19	—	1,510	131.00–139.00	135.58
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,602	143.00–149.00	145.70
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,340	115.00	115.00
5	—	1,275	118.00–128.00	123.42
10	—	1,328	140.00–148.00	143.08
16	—	1,256	129.00–139.00	135.15
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
39	—	1,418	203.00–208.00	205.23
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,253	198.00–199.00	198.36
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,443	202.00–208.00	206.00
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,422	143.00–160.00	153.94
38	—	1,514	165.00–181.00	173.22

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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