Name: Southeastern Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-27
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-27

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

To few receipts to trend.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb bulls averaged $232.50/cwt on 2 head.

Average price

$232.50

2 head · 560 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,302

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$312

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

$35.00/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−38.01

vs NC average

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	585	250.00	1,463	1thin
Medium and Large 2	535	215.00	1,150	1thin

One grade step is worth $35.00/cwt here — about $312 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 200–300 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale2 hd

232.50

—

NC average8 barns · 177 hd

270.51

−38.01

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

15 lots · USDA AMS · Southeastern Auction Co Inc – Chadbourn, NC

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	Medium and Large 1	550–600	585	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,463	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	650–700	695	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	1,251	1
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	300	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	810	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 2	650–700	695	170.00/cwt	170.00–170.00	1,182	1
Heifers	Medium and Large 2	550–600	570	185.00/cwt	185.00–185.00	1,055	1
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	465	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,465	1
Steers	Medium and Large 2	550–600	580	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,392	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	250–300	275	312.50/cwt	312.50–312.50	859	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	300–350	340	322.50/cwt	322.50–322.50	1,097	1
Bulls	Medium 2	400–450	435	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,044	1
Bulls	Medium 2	250–300	290	250.39/cwt	227.50–272.50	726	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 2	350–400	385	257.50/cwt	257.50–257.50	991	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 2	300–350	345	302.50/cwt	302.50–302.50	1,044	1
Heifers	Medium and Large 3	150–200	185	175.00/cwt	175.00–175.00	324	1
Bulls	Medium and Large 2	500–550	535	215.00/cwt	215.00–215.00	1,150	1

How this sale compares

North Carolina weighted averages

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

North Carolina feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Southeastern Auction Co Inc – Chadbourn, NC

Mon Jan 27, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Raleigh, NC (RA-LS)

Receipts 18Last week 45Year ago 0

To few receipts to trend.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
1	250–300	275	312.50	312.50
1	300–350	340	322.50	322.50
1	550–600	585	250.00	250.00
1	650–700	695	180.00	180.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
1	300–350	345	302.50	302.50
1	500–550	535	215.00	215.00
1	650–700	695	170.00	170.00
Bulls — Medium 2$ per cwt · actual wt
2	250–300	290	227.50–272.50	250.39
1	400–450	435	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
1	300–350	300	270.00	270.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
1	350–400	385	257.50	257.50
1	550–600	570	185.00	185.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
1	150–200	185	175.00	175.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
1	450–500	465	315.00	315.00
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
1	550–600	580	240.00	240.00

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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