Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2025-10-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Sale consisted of a few lot loads, mostly loads made up of packages. A few yearlings steers, mostly made up of bawling heifers and steers. Precondition shots with some with just spring shots. Prices on the mixed side, with some weights on the higher side while lower on others compared to a week ago. Demand moderate to good.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $486.94/cwt on 1,485 head. That ranks 5 of 8 comparable sales and sits −0.36 against this barn's trailing median of $487.30.

Average price

$486.94

1,485 head · 560 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,727

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$258

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

$23.68/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+7.11

vs NE average

+41.09 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	561	487.86	2,737	1,427
Medium and Large 1-2	534	464.18	2,479	58

One grade step is worth $23.68/cwt here — about $258 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 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 sale1,485 hd

486.94

—

NE average9 barns · 3,988 hd

479.83

+7.11

National average181 barns · 23,254 hd

445.85

+41.09

This barn, trailing median8 sales

487.30

−0.36

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 · 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	300–350	332	570.00/cwt	570.00–570.00	1,892	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	656	391.14/cwt	390.00–392.50	2,566	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	369	538.51/cwt	525.00–570.00	1,987	55
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	414	527.57/cwt	515.00–560.00	2,184	56
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	620	412.33/cwt	382.50–418.00	2,556	78
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	557	450.21/cwt	420.00–465.00	2,508	158
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	413	587.29/cwt	570.00–615.00	2,426	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	710	394.40/cwt	384.00–399.00	2,800	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	886	381.25/cwt	381.25–381.25	3,378	68
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	757	391.27/cwt	375.00–394.00	2,962	70
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	518	470.78/cwt	443.00–490.00	2,439	258
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	474	476.42/cwt	460.00–495.00	2,258	350
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	675	435.59/cwt	425.00–449.00	2,940	88
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	616	450.56/cwt	429.00–468.00	2,775	483
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	484	545.03/cwt	522.50–570.00	2,638	563
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	531	517.74/cwt	482.50–530.00	2,749	570
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	581	467.99/cwt	451.00–488.00	2,719	857
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	365	639.21/cwt	620.00–655.00	2,333	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	394	580.57/cwt	550.00–585.00	2,287	38
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	681	398.59/cwt	385.00–403.00	2,714	39
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	534	464.18/cwt	450.00–471.00	2,479	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	411	552.73/cwt	550.00–565.00	2,272	72
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	477	495.33/cwt	490.00–510.00	2,363	75
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	630	419.89/cwt	415.00–422.50	2,645	190
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	800–850	845	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	2,915	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	538	418.00/cwt	390.00–429.00	2,249	144
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	588	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	2,264	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	456	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	2,006	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	384	500.00/cwt	500.00–500.00	1,920	50
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	435	496.08/cwt	480.00–505.00	2,158	65

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 10, 2025

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

Receipts 4,959Last week 4,708Year ago 5,252

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	332	570.00	570.00
55	350–400	369	525.00–570.00	538.51
56	400–450	414	515.00–560.00	527.57
350	450–500	474	460.00–495.00	476.42
258	500–550	518	443.00–490.00	470.78
158	550–600	557	420.00–465.00	450.21
78	600–650	620	382.50–418.00	412.33
11	650–700	656	390.00–392.50	391.14
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
50	350–400	384	500.00	500.00
65	400–450	435	480.00–505.00	496.08
11	450–500	456	440.00	440.00
144	500–550	538	390.00–429.00	418.00
8	550–600	588	385.00	385.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	350–400	365	620.00–655.00	639.21
67	400–450	413	570.00–615.00	587.29
563	450–500	484	522.50–570.00	545.03
570	500–550	531	482.50–530.00	517.74
857	550–600	581	451.00–488.00	467.99
483	600–650	616	429.00–468.00	450.56
88	650–700	675	425.00–449.00	435.59
67	700–750	710	384.00–399.00	394.40
70	750–800	757	375.00–394.00	391.27
68	850–900	886	381.25	381.25
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
38	350–400	394	550.00–585.00	580.57
72	400–450	411	550.00–565.00	552.73
75	450–500	477	490.00–510.00	495.33
58	500–550	534	450.00–471.00	464.18
190	600–650	630	415.00–422.50	419.89
39	650–700	681	385.00–403.00	398.59
18	800–850	845	345.00	345.00

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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