Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2021-10-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-10-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Good crowd with a good crowd of buyers. Trend steady to a few dollars higher on most weights. Good run of quality feeder calves. Demand was good to moderate. Next feeder calf sale Oct. 15.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb steers averaged $180.52/cwt on 4,164 head.

Average price

$180.52

4,164 head · 542 lb average

Value per head Derived

$979

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$54

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

$16.38/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+8.80

vs NE average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	541	182.04	984	3,777
Medium and Large 1-2	561	165.67	930	387

One grade step is worth $16.38/cwt here — about $54 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 sale4,164 hd

180.52

—

NE average10 barns · 13,609 hd

171.72

+8.80

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

32 lots · USDA AMS · Crawford Livestock Market - Crawford, NE

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
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	530	169.52/cwt	167.50–170.50	898	34
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	476	175.72/cwt	171.00–178.00	836	69
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	518	184.76/cwt	184.00–186.00	957	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	451	184.00/cwt	184.00–184.00	830	105
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	671	134.50/cwt	134.50–134.50	902	35
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	465	154.75/cwt	148.00–161.00	720	112
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	573	156.00/cwt	156.00–156.00	894	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	372	174.60/cwt	167.00–178.00	650	91
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	664	170.84/cwt	164.00–176.00	1,134	250
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	628	172.07/cwt	163.00–178.00	1,081	381
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	534	182.00/cwt	171.00–187.50	972	1,038
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	580	161.66/cwt	160.00–162.50	938	119
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	626	158.82/cwt	158.00–159.50	994	68
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	388	201.07/cwt	194.00–211.00	780	107
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	513	191.74/cwt	188.00–195.00	984	371
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	560	182.90/cwt	179.00–186.25	1,024	271
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	479	191.30/cwt	183.00–198.50	916	439
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	427	195.84/cwt	189.00–203.00	836	264
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	329	214.00/cwt	214.00–214.00	704	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	579	168.93/cwt	163.00–178.00	978	550
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	513	143.51/cwt	142.00–146.00	736	66
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	429	154.00/cwt	154.00–154.00	661	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	377	186.66/cwt	185.00–189.00	704	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	676	155.04/cwt	152.00–160.00	1,048	56
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	483	168.14/cwt	162.50–178.00	812	453
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	459	203.02/cwt	202.50–203.50	932	51
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	519	160.42/cwt	151.50–166.50	833	695
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	573	164.28/cwt	159.00–175.00	941	187
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	708	152.00/cwt	152.00–152.00	1,076	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	426	181.54/cwt	180.00–184.00	773	29
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	613	155.20/cwt	145.00–159.00	951	127
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	429	165.03/cwt	159.00–173.50	708	185

How this sale compares

Nebraska weighted averages

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

Nebraska feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Crawford Livestock Market - Crawford, NE

Fri Oct 8, 2021

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Kearney, NE (LS-WH)

Receipts 6,667Last week 5,291Year ago 6,800

Good crowd with a good crowd of buyers. Trend steady to a few dollars higher on most weights. Good run of quality feeder calves. Demand was good to moderate. Next feeder calf sale Oct. 15.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	530	167.50–170.50	169.52
69	—	476	171.00–178.00	175.72
119	—	580	160.00–162.50	161.66
68	—	626	158.00–159.50	158.82
12	—	377	185.00–189.00	186.66
56	—	676	152.00–160.00	155.04
29	—	426	180.00–184.00	181.54
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
250	—	664	164.00–176.00	170.84
381	—	628	163.00–178.00	172.07
1,038	—	534	171.00–187.50	182.00
107	—	388	194.00–211.00	201.07
439	—	479	183.00–198.50	191.30
264	—	427	189.00–203.00	195.84
14	—	329	214.00	214.00
550	—	579	163.00–178.00	168.93
41	—	708	152.00	152.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
371	—	513	188.00–195.00	191.74
271	—	560	179.00–186.25	182.90
51	—	459	202.50–203.50	203.02
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	518	184.00–186.00	184.76
105	—	451	184.00	184.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	671	134.50	134.50
91	—	372	167.00–178.00	174.60
453	—	483	162.50–178.00	168.14
695	—	519	151.50–166.50	160.42
187	—	573	159.00–175.00	164.28
127	—	613	145.00–159.00	155.20
185	—	429	159.00–173.50	165.03
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
112	—	465	148.00–161.00	154.75
17	—	573	156.00	156.00
66	—	513	142.00–146.00	143.51
6	—	429	154.00	154.00

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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