Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-08-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the last tested auction, slaughter steers and heifers steady on a very light test. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 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	—	Average	1,663	202.11	3,360	9thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,509	173.51	2,618	12
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,231	169.67	2,088	29
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,079	163.52	1,765	18
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,241	233.49	2,898	4thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,357	234.67	3,184	9thin

Every lot, as filed

13 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
Bulls	—	—	1,653	200.50/cwt	194.00–210.00	3,314	8
Heifers	Choice	—	1,241	233.49/cwt	232.00–235.00	2,898	4
Steers	Choice	—	1,357	234.67/cwt	233.00–235.50	3,184	9
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,210	169.03/cwt	167.00–173.00	2,045	12
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,521	173.76/cwt	170.00–177.00	2,643	8
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,065	163.85/cwt	160.00–168.00	1,745	8
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,251	161.21/cwt	159.00–166.00	2,017	9
Bulls	—	—	1,740	215.00/cwt	215.00–215.00	3,741	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,239	180.15/cwt	178.00–187.00	2,232	8
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,093	172.95/cwt	171.00–175.00	1,890	5
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,395	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	2,511	2
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,575	166.00/cwt	166.00–166.00	2,615	2
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,089	153.56/cwt	149.00–159.00	1,672	5

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 Aug 12, 2025

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

Receipts 147Last week 40Year ago 149

Compared to the last tested auction, slaughter steers and heifers steady on a very light test. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 higher.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,653	194.00–210.00	200.50
1	—	1,740	215.00	215.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,241	232.00–235.00	233.49
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,357	233.00–235.50	234.67
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,210	167.00–173.00	169.03
9	—	1,251	159.00–166.00	161.21
8	—	1,239	178.00–187.00	180.15
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,521	170.00–177.00	173.76
2	—	1,395	180.00	180.00
2	—	1,575	166.00	166.00
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,065	160.00–168.00	163.85
5	—	1,093	171.00–175.00	172.95
5	—	1,089	149.00–159.00	153.56

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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