Sale reports / North Dakota / Stockmen's Livestock Exchange / 2024-02-08

Stockmen's Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Dickinson, North Dakota · Thu, Feb 8
● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2099
Receipts
2,200 head
1,591 vs last sale 3,791 50 vs year ago 2,150 · +2.3%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers steady to 5.00 lower. Good demand for this nice offering of home raised, long time weaned steers and heifers. Many long strings again this week offered in full loads and multiple load lots. Flesh condition ranged from light to moderate. The market was very active as the cattle futures contracts continue to rise, however there was a little pressure on the market due to the wet, muddy conditions in feedyards. A very large feeder cattle sale expected for next week, expecting 4,000 feeder cattle.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $283.48/cwt on 1,591 head.
Average price
$283.48
1,591 head · 669 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,896
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$117
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$4.51/cwt at this weight
vs the market
11.82
vs ND average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1670283.601,8991,547
Medium and Large 1-2639279.091,78244
One grade step is worth $4.51/cwt here — about $117 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale1,591 hd
283.48
ND average3 barns · 5,475 hd
295.30
−11.82
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

30 lots · USDA AMS · Stockmen's Livestock Exchange - Dickinson, ND
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersMedium and Large 1363350.00/cwt350.00–350.001,2713
HeifersMedium and Large 1433310.98/cwt306.00–318.001,34718
HeifersMedium and Large 1688246.63/cwt244.50–248.751,69722
HeifersMedium and Large 1724241.07/cwt238.50–243.001,74530
HeifersMedium and Large 1512300.31/cwt300.00–300.501,53832
HeifersMedium and Large 1474297.90/cwt291.00–308.001,41236
SteersMedium and Large 1-2543300.00/cwt300.00–300.001,6293
SteersMedium and Large 1-2655267.00/cwt267.00–267.001,7497
SteersMedium and Large 1-2385351.00/cwt351.00–351.001,3518
SteersMedium and Large 1-2643274.62/cwt274.00–275.001,76618
SteersMedium and Large 1826245.25/cwt245.25–245.252,02632
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed904220.00/cwt220.00–220.001,9898
SteersMedium and Large 1537318.58/cwt305.00–334.001,711129
SteersMedium and Large 1579318.41/cwt307.00–333.001,844136
SteersMedium and Large 1689271.70/cwt266.60–278.501,872184
SteersMedium and Large 1628296.62/cwt285.75–310.501,863242
SteersMedium and Large 1717265.21/cwt259.75–269.251,902262
SteersMedium and Large 1423375.87/cwt374.00–381.001,59019
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed375319.00/cwt319.00–319.001,19614
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed728225.00/cwt225.00–225.001,63814
HeifersMedium and Large 1Thin Fleshed448326.00/cwt326.00–326.001,4609
HeifersMedium and Large 1Thin Fleshed505305.50/cwt305.50–305.501,54341
SteersMedium and Large 1767256.58/cwt245.00–258.751,968442
SteersMedium and Large 1475343.32/cwt340.00–348.001,631101
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2479280.75/cwt272.00–289.001,34515
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2423311.23/cwt306.00–315.001,31722
HeifersMedium and Large 1572285.83/cwt268.00–293.001,635114
HeifersMedium and Large 1630261.47/cwt253.50–266.001,647114
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2522272.25/cwt271.00–276.001,42112
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed877214.00/cwt214.00–214.001,87717

How this sale compares

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