Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2024-01-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-01-19

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Cold weather brought a good crowd to the weaned heifer and steer calf sale. Prices higher on some calves while lower on others.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb steers averaged $288.34/cwt on 1,395 head.

Average price

$288.34

1,395 head · 636 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,833

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$218

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

$11.88/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+17.49

vs NE average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	640	289.37	1,853	1,275
Medium and Large 1-2	589	277.49	1,635	120

One grade step is worth $11.88/cwt here — about $218 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 sale1,395 hd

288.34

—

NE average7 barns · 11,127 hd

270.85

+17.49

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

33 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
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	624	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,529	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	350	336.00/cwt	336.00–336.00	1,176	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	732	220.11/cwt	218.00–228.00	1,611	33
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	479	311.56/cwt	305.00–318.00	1,492	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	471	275.38/cwt	269.00–285.00	1,297	45
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	639	236.71/cwt	236.00–237.00	1,513	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	662	246.74/cwt	245.50–253.00	1,633	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	519	298.47/cwt	290.00–303.00	1,549	31
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	953	198.00/cwt	198.00–198.00	1,887	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	484	327.01/cwt	310.00–331.00	1,583	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	672	277.48/cwt	267.50–287.00	1,865	112
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	618	263.00/cwt	263.00–263.00	1,625	25
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	794	237.60/cwt	235.00–247.00	1,887	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	573	307.24/cwt	303.50–312.50	1,760	96
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	627	294.61/cwt	288.00–298.00	1,847	243
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	539	263.58/cwt	258.00–269.00	1,421	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	425	282.50/cwt	282.50–282.50	1,201	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	—	616	267.50/cwt	267.50–267.50	1,648	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	429	382.00/cwt	382.00–382.00	1,639	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	361	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,354	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	726	258.15/cwt	254.00–260.50	1,874	392
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	425	329.64/cwt	312.50–332.00	1,401	73
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	662	248.61/cwt	237.00–252.00	1,646	85
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	577	248.93/cwt	243.00–257.00	1,436	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	520	333.20/cwt	313.00–339.00	1,733	212
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	745	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,788	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	443	335.45/cwt	317.50–343.00	1,486	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	573	280.37/cwt	275.00–286.50	1,607	144
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	631	254.00/cwt	242.00–260.00	1,603	204
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	524	304.38/cwt	284.00–312.00	1,595	134
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	—	713	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,925	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	658	255.50/cwt	255.50–255.50	1,681	13
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	831	236.00/cwt	236.00–236.00	1,961	24

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 Jan 19, 2024

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

Receipts 2,591Last week 0Year ago 4,137

Cold weather brought a good crowd to the weaned heifer and steer calf sale. Prices higher on some calves while lower on others.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	624	245.00	245.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	350	336.00	336.00
33	—	732	218.00–228.00	220.11
64	—	479	305.00–318.00	311.56
73	—	425	312.50–332.00	329.64
85	—	662	237.00–252.00	248.61
144	—	573	275.00–286.50	280.37
204	—	631	242.00–260.00	254.00
134	—	524	284.00–312.00	304.38
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	471	269.00–285.00	275.38
67	—	639	236.00–237.00	236.71
39	—	539	258.00–269.00	263.58
10	—	425	282.50	282.50
18	—	577	243.00–257.00	248.93
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	616	267.50	267.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	662	245.50–253.00	246.74
31	—	519	290.00–303.00	298.47
25	—	618	263.00	263.00
14	—	745	240.00	240.00
20	—	443	317.50–343.00	335.45
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	953	198.00	198.00
29	—	484	310.00–331.00	327.01
112	—	672	267.50–287.00	277.48
58	—	794	235.00–247.00	237.60
96	—	573	303.50–312.50	307.24
243	—	627	288.00–298.00	294.61
50	—	429	382.00	382.00
16	—	361	375.00	375.00
392	—	726	254.00–260.50	258.15
212	—	520	313.00–339.00	333.20
24	—	831	236.00	236.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	713	270.00	270.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	658	255.50	255.50

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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