Sale reports / Montana / Public Auction Yards / 2022-10-24

Public Auction Yards

Replacement Cattle · Billings, Montana · Mon, Oct 24
● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2257
Receipts
3,501 head
2,665 vs last sale 836 161 vs year ago 3,340 · +4.8%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Demand was good to very good for the 19th annual Montana Angus Female Bonanza. Supply consisted of high quality, uniform, commercial Angus bred heifers and young cows as well as a dispersion of registered Angus young cows. Market activity was active to very active with many buyers on hand from all over the country as well as on the internet and phone actively bidding on offerings. Heifer offerings were A.I. bred to Angus herd sires or natural serviced to high quality sons of popular Angus herd sires. Most AI bred heifers were set to calve in tight windows of 3-5 days and all pasture bred heifers and cows calve in 30 days or less. Cows and heifers were in light to moderate flesh condition. All AI heifer offerings were sorted for the sex of the calf, with all purchases tagged for sex. All cows were sold with mixed sexes.

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 $/cwt figures above.
ClassStageAgeAvg wt$/headHead
Bred Cows2nd Stage (4-6 mo)Young (2-4 yrs)1,138$2,3681,392
Bred Cows2nd Stage (4-6 mo)Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)1,291$2,35029
Bred Cows2nd Stage (4-6 mo)Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)1,378$2,27419
Bred Cows1st Stage (1-3 mo)Young (2-4 yrs)1,112$2,273145
Bred Cows2nd Stage (4-6 mo)Middle Aged/Aged (>5 yrs)1,577$2,06320
Bred Heifers2nd Stage (4-6 mo)(<2 yrs)1,068$1,9681,918

Every lot, as filed

10 lots · USDA AMS · Public Auction Yards Replacement Cattle Special - Billings, MT (Seasonal)
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Bred CowsMedium and Large 11,1122,272.82/head2,175.00–2,400.002,273145
Bred CowsMedium and Large 11,4022,100.00/head2,100.00–2,100.002,1009
Bred CowsMedium and Large 11,1322,358.74/head2,050.00–2,500.002,3591,347
Bred CowsMedium and Large 11,2912,350.00/head2,350.00–2,350.002,35029
Bred CowsMedium and Large 11,5481,850.00/head1,850.00–1,850.001,85011
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1Non-Legible BANGS1,3512,100.00/head2,100.00–2,100.002,1007
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1Registered1,3572,430.58/head2,350.00–2,500.002,43110
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1Registered1,3182,733.53/head2,300.00–4,250.002,73438
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1Registered1,6132,322.62/head2,100.00–2,500.002,3239
Bred HeifersMedium and Large 11,0681,968.43/head1,700.00–2,300.001,9681,918

How this sale compares

Montana weighted averages
One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Montana auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.