Name: F&T Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-04-29
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-29

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the feeder market from two weeks ago, most weights only lightly tested due to limited receipts, with calves under 550 lbs selling with a firm to higher undertone and feeders over 550 trading with a sharply higher undertone. New record high prices seem to be set every week. Demand phenomenal and supply light.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $377.33/cwt on 55 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −92.62 against this barn's trailing median of $469.95.

Average price

$377.33

55 head · 564 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,128

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$141

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$5.64/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−4.95

vs MO average

+2.90 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	565	377.64	2,135	52
Medium and Large 1-2	536	372.00	1,994	3thin

One grade step is worth $5.64/cwt here — about $141 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

16 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $515.25, low $432.68, median $469.95 across 16 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale55 hd

377.33

—

MO average16 barns · 4,519 hd

382.28

−4.95

National average176 barns · 11,859 hd

374.43

+2.90

This barn, trailing median16 sales

469.95

−92.62

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot, as filed

34 lots · USDA AMS · F and T Livestock Market Feeder/Replacement 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
Heifers	Medium 1-2	250–300	291	422.50/cwt	422.50–422.50	1,229	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	600–650	645	277.50/cwt	277.50–277.50	1,790	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	500–550	500	358.63/cwt	352.50–360.00	1,793	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	428	399.03/cwt	395.00–405.00	1,708	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	550–600	576	352.01/cwt	332.50–366.00	2,028	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	450–500	481	395.88/cwt	390.00–405.00	1,904	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	420	405.17/cwt	390.00–410.00	1,702	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	500–550	542	381.00/cwt	381.00–381.00	2,065	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	602	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,866	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	479	399.47/cwt	391.00–406.00	1,913	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	702	335.77/cwt	322.50–338.00	2,357	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	776	298.00/cwt	298.00–298.00	2,312	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	550–600	593	339.17/cwt	332.50–342.50	2,011	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	500–550	528	375.90/cwt	370.00–385.00	1,985	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	472	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,770	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	522	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	1,931	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	526	387.85/cwt	382.50–395.00	2,040	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	629	367.62/cwt	363.00–371.50	2,312	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	536	372.00/cwt	372.00–372.00	1,994	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	614	307.73/cwt	297.00–317.00	1,889	17
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	580	373.81/cwt	371.00–377.50	2,168	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	650–700	682	343.00/cwt	343.00–343.00	2,339	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	550–600	563	397.00/cwt	397.00–397.00	2,235	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	500–550	532	337.00/cwt	337.00–337.00	1,793	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	550–600	598	292.00/cwt	292.00–292.00	1,746	4
Bulls	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	570	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,938	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	672	338.05/cwt	334.00–355.00	2,272	68
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	800–850	808	247.50/cwt	247.50–247.50	2,000	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	350–400	358	435.00/cwt	435.00–435.00	1,557	3
Bulls	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	483	366.99/cwt	362.50–372.50	1,773	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	482	363.00/cwt	363.00–363.00	1,750	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	710	283.66/cwt	276.00–287.50	2,014	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	591	316.76/cwt	314.00–319.50	1,872	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	615	369.07/cwt	367.00–370.00	2,270	13

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 Feeder/Replacement Cattle - Palmyra, MO

Tue Apr 29, 2025

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

Receipts 612Last week 643Year ago 1,094

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	250–300	291	422.50	422.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	500	352.50–360.00	358.63
2	600–650	645	277.50	277.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
14	400–450	420	390.00–410.00	405.17
5	450–500	472	375.00	375.00
7	500–550	522	370.00	370.00
10	600–650	602	310.00	310.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
18	500–550	528	370.00–385.00	375.90
12	550–600	593	332.50–342.50	339.17
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	450–500	482	363.00	363.00
14	550–600	591	314.00–319.50	316.76
17	600–650	614	297.00–317.00	307.73
12	700–750	710	276.00–287.50	283.66
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	532	337.00	337.00
4	550–600	598	292.00	292.00
6	800–850	808	247.50	247.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	428	395.00–405.00	399.03
18	450–500	481	390.00–405.00	395.88
12	550–600	576	332.50–366.00	352.01
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
3	350–400	358	435.00	435.00
2	500–550	542	381.00	381.00
15	550–600	563	397.00	397.00
13	600–650	615	367.00–370.00	369.07
9	650–700	682	343.00	343.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	450–500	479	391.00–406.00	399.47
7	500–550	526	382.50–395.00	387.85
16	550–600	580	371.00–377.50	373.81
22	600–650	629	363.00–371.50	367.62
68	650–700	672	334.00–355.00	338.05
7	700–750	702	322.50–338.00	335.77
8	750–800	776	298.00	298.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	500–550	536	372.00	372.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	483	362.50–372.50	366.99
6	550–600	570	340.00	340.00

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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