Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2025-09-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-09-26

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A few lot loads of yearling steers, rest of sale made up of packages. Sale made up of open heifers, few spayed heifers, fall calves, and a few unweaned spring calves. Prices on the mixed side compared to two weeks ago. Demand moderate to good.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $450.62/cwt on 28 head. That ranks 2 of 8 comparable sales and sits −36.68 against this barn's trailing median of $487.30.

Average price

$450.62

28 head · 555 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,500

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$193

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

$43.36/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−18.36

vs NE average

+33.53 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	553	458.36	2,534	23
Medium and Large 1-2	564	415.00	2,341	5thin

One grade step is worth $43.36/cwt here — about $193 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

8 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $511.56, low $427.00, median $487.30 across 8 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale28 hd

450.62

—

NE average7 barns · 881 hd

468.98

−18.36

National average168 barns · 11,658 hd

417.09

+33.53

This barn, trailing median8 sales

487.30

−36.68

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

24 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 1	750–800	780	341.78/cwt	335.00–344.00	2,666	81
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	870	331.68/cwt	327.00–333.00	2,886	98
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	538	460.94/cwt	455.00–468.00	2,480	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	520	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	2,132	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	714	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,392	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	1050–1100	1,055	304.00/cwt	304.00–304.00	3,207	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	911	326.50/cwt	326.50–326.50	2,974	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	834	327.13/cwt	319.50–334.50	2,728	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	1000–1050	1,024	317.13/cwt	308.00–326.00	3,247	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	803	359.00/cwt	359.00–359.00	2,883	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	728	385.57/cwt	377.00–393.00	2,807	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	883	345.41/cwt	343.00–347.50	3,050	52
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	642	379.03/cwt	373.00–385.00	2,433	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	972	322.29/cwt	320.00–323.00	3,133	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	632	422.82/cwt	397.50–429.00	2,672	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	687	411.78/cwt	409.00–412.50	2,829	97
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	763	383.81/cwt	364.00–388.50	2,928	178
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Spayed	750–800	755	342.50/cwt	342.50–342.50	2,586	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	458	501.00/cwt	501.00–501.00	2,295	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	572	455.00/cwt	455.00–455.00	2,603	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	564	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	2,341	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	604	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	2,325	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	653	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	1,992	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	488	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	1,928	15

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 Sep 26, 2025

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

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Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	500–550	520	410.00	410.00
32	600–650	642	373.00–385.00	379.03
5	700–750	714	335.00	335.00
81	750–800	780	335.00–344.00	341.78
12	800–850	834	319.50–334.50	327.13
98	850–900	870	327.00–333.00	331.68
11	900–950	911	326.50	326.50
40	950–1000	972	320.00–323.00	322.29
29	1000–1050	1,024	308.00–326.00	317.13
9	1050–1100	1,055	304.00	304.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	750–800	755	342.50	342.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	488	395.00	395.00
5	650–700	653	305.00	305.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	458	501.00	501.00
13	500–550	538	455.00–468.00	460.94
10	550–600	572	455.00	455.00
63	600–650	632	397.50–429.00	422.82
97	650–700	687	409.00–412.50	411.78
41	700–750	728	377.00–393.00	385.57
178	750–800	763	364.00–388.50	383.81
14	800–850	803	359.00	359.00
52	850–900	883	343.00–347.50	345.41
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	564	415.00	415.00
8	600–650	604	385.00	385.00

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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