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Stockmen's Livestock Exchange

Name: Stockmen's Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-01-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-09

Feeder Cattle · Dickinson, North Dakota · Thu, Jan 9

● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2099

← Dec 17Jan 9Jan 16 →

Receipts

4,332 head

▲ 4,332 vs last sale 0▲ 2,117 vs year ago 2,215 · +95.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

This was the first cattle sale of 2025 at Stockmen's no comparisons to make. The offering had a very small amount of feeder cattle under 400 lbs. The feeder cattle over 400 lbs. all sold with very good demand. The sale offering had a very small amount of yearling cattle. The market was active. The sale offering consisted of a large amount of weaned feeder cattle. The majority of feeder of cattle at this sale carried a attractive flesh condition, the offering consisted of a number of strings in a green flesh condition. The order buyers were aggressive from the start of the sale to finish. The Dickinson, ND area continues to stay on the dry side with no measurable moisture in many months. The next USDA reported cattle sale at Stockmen's will be 1/16/2025.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $352.30/cwt on 700 head. That ranks 1 of 13 comparable sales and sits −134.82 against this barn's trailing median of $487.12.

Average price

$352.30

700 head · 551 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,941

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$96

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

$37.79/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−1.06

vs ND average

+10.22 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	551	352.79	1,942	691
Medium and Large 1-2	586	315.00	1,846	9thin

One grade step is worth $37.79/cwt here — about $96 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale700 hd

352.30

—

ND average3 barns · 1,758 hd

353.37

−1.06

National average155 barns · 22,672 hd

342.08

+10.22

This barn, trailing median13 sales

487.12

−134.82

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

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

13 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $518.31, low $440.24, median $487.12 across 13 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot, as filed

31 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. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers19 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	377	441.23/cwt	415.00–460.00	1,663	35
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fancy	429	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	1,931	6
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	448	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,792	25
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	448	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,523	25
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	451	397.50/cwt	397.50–397.50	1,793	14
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	469	403.00/cwt	395.00–409.00	1,890	81
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	534	362.64/cwt	354.50–377.50	1,936	342
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fancy	551	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	1,973	75
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	571	339.07/cwt	325.00–357.00	1,936	274
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	586	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,846	9
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	605	313.50/cwt	313.50–313.50	1,897	37
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	632	327.97/cwt	320.00–333.75	2,073	397
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	674	318.02/cwt	302.00–326.50	2,143	250
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	704	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,936	12
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	709	301.15/cwt	297.00–302.75	2,135	136
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	790	279.78/cwt	273.75–286.00	2,210	93
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	818	275.69/cwt	272.25–277.75	2,255	161
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	888	271.25/cwt	271.25–271.25	2,409	67
Steers	950–1000	Large 1	978	251.75/cwt	251.75–251.75	2,462	60
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	308	404.00/cwt	404.00–404.00	1,244	11
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	363	381.45/cwt	377.50–384.00	1,385	26
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	357.71/cwt	348.00–365.00	1,502	37
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	438	343.50/cwt	343.50–343.50	1,505	15
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	473	353.80/cwt	333.00–363.00	1,673	136
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	337.56/cwt	334.00–340.00	1,762	102
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	566	321.02/cwt	311.50–324.00	1,817	175
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	619	299.17/cwt	290.00–306.50	1,852	74
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	669	281.62/cwt	277.50–287.00	1,884	47
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Replacement	673	268.50/cwt	268.50–268.50	1,807	20
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	716	271.79/cwt	268.00–273.50	1,946	26
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	855	282.54/cwt	269.50–327.00	2,416	66

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.

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

Stockmen's Livestock Exchange - Dickinson, ND

Thu Jan 9, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Bismarck, ND (LS-BM)

Receipts 4,332Last week 0Year ago 2,215

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	400–450	438	343.50	343.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	300–350	308	404.00	404.00
26	350–400	363	377.50–384.00	381.45
37	400–450	420	348.00–365.00	357.71
136	450–500	473	333.00–363.00	353.80
102	500–550	522	334.00–340.00	337.56
175	550–600	566	311.50–324.00	321.02
74	600–650	619	290.00–306.50	299.17
47	650–700	669	277.50–287.00	281.62
26	700–750	716	268.00–273.50	271.79
66	850–900	855	269.50–327.00	282.54

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
20	650–700	673	268.50	268.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
60	950–1000	978	251.75	251.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	429	450.00	450.00
75	550–600	551	358.00	358.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
25	400–450	448	340.00	340.00
14	450–500	451	397.50	397.50
9	550–600	586	315.00	315.00
37	600–650	605	313.50	313.50
12	700–750	704	275.00	275.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
35	350–400	377	415.00–460.00	441.23
25	400–450	448	400.00	400.00
81	450–500	469	395.00–409.00	403.00
342	500–550	534	354.50–377.50	362.64
274	550–600	571	325.00–357.00	339.07
397	600–650	632	320.00–333.75	327.97
250	650–700	674	302.00–326.50	318.02
136	700–750	709	297.00–302.75	301.15
93	750–800	790	273.75–286.00	279.78
161	800–850	818	272.25–277.75	275.69
67	850–900	888	271.25	271.25

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.