Name: Show-Me-Select (Fruitland, MO) livestock auction prices — 2025-12-05
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-05

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Coordinated were graded and sorted into uniform lots according to projected calving dates and body type similarity. Demand was higher than our May sale with a good attendance of cattle producers. Supply consisted of 37 bred heifers from 6 producers, in 26 lots selling to 14 different buyers, with a sale average of $4,441.00 per head, which was $954.00 higher than the sale in May. The highest heifer sold was a Register Hereford for $5,700.00.

Replacement cattle Per head

By class, stage and age

Bred stock and pairs are reported per head, not per hundredweight — these prices are never mixed with the $/cwt figures above.

Class	Stage	Age	Avg wt	$/head	Head
Bred Heifers	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	(<2 yrs)	1,321	$4,555	21
Bred Heifers	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	(<2 yrs)	1,270	$4,336	14

Every lot, as filed

8 lots · USDA AMS · Show-Me-Select Special - Fruitland, 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
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	1,364	4,585.71/head	4,200.00–5,000.00	4,586	7
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,322	4,325.00/head	4,000.00–4,600.00	4,325	8
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	1,300	4,500.00/head	4,400.00–4,600.00	4,500	2
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,294	4,212.50/head	4,000.00–4,400.00	4,213	8
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1Registered	—	1,250	4,875.00/head	4,800.00–4,950.00	4,875	2
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Registered	—	1,281	4,800.00/head	4,100.00–5,700.00	4,800	4
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1Registered	—	1,200	4,700.00/head	4,500.00–4,900.00	4,700	2
Bred Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Registered	—	1,213	4,300.00/head	4,250.00–4,350.00	4,300	2

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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Show-Me-Select Special - Fruitland, MO

Fri Dec 5, 2025

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

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Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bred Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per head · estimate wt
(<2 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	7	—	1,364	4,200.00–5,000.00	4,585.71
(<2 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	2	—	1,300	4,400.00–4,600.00	4,500.00
Bred Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per head · estimate wt
(<2 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	8	—	1,322	4,000.00–4,600.00	4,325.00
(<2 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	8	—	1,294	4,000.00–4,400.00	4,212.50
Bred Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Registered$ per head · estimate wt
(<2 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	2	—	1,250	4,800.00–4,950.00	4,875.00
(<2 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	2	—	1,200	4,500.00–4,900.00	4,700.00
Bred Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Registered$ per head · estimate wt
(<2 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	4	—	1,281	4,100.00–5,700.00	4,800.00
(<2 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	2	—	1,213	4,250.00–4,350.00	4,300.00

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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