Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2025-10-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-24

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Loads made up of packages of bawling heifers and steers plus a few weaned. Shots consisted of preconditioned, spring only, and a few with no shots. Prices on the lower side 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 $473.33/cwt on 1,066 head. That ranks 3 of 8 comparable sales and sits −13.97 against this barn's trailing median of $487.30.

Average price

$473.33

1,066 head · 553 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,616

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$222

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

$26.23/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−5.10

vs NE average

+15.19 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	554	475.64	2,636	972
Medium and Large 1-2	537	449.41	2,413	94

One grade step is worth $26.23/cwt here — about $222 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 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 sale1,066 hd

473.33

—

NE average11 barns · 6,504 hd

478.43

−5.10

National average182 barns · 38,495 hd

458.14

+15.19

This barn, trailing median8 sales

487.30

−13.97

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

27 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 1Fancy	450–500	467	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	2,522	43
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	500–550	503	531.00/cwt	531.00–531.00	2,671	81
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	550–600	557	485.47/cwt	480.00–490.50	2,704	187
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	707	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	2,333	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	331	532.27/cwt	517.50–555.00	1,762	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	389	516.00/cwt	516.00–516.00	2,007	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	473	457.23/cwt	430.00–472.50	2,163	152
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	564	412.42/cwt	390.00–427.50	2,326	274
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	709	358.33/cwt	357.50–360.00	2,541	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	439	447.09/cwt	425.00–467.00	1,963	28
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	439	504.47/cwt	500.00–510.00	2,215	32
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	483	457.75/cwt	452.50–472.50	2,211	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	675	412.00/cwt	385.00–425.00	2,781	208
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	529	484.58/cwt	465.00–510.00	2,563	270
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	615	434.27/cwt	410.00–452.00	2,671	338
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	669	357.95/cwt	352.50–382.50	2,395	51
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	623	384.61/cwt	380.00–405.00	2,396	60
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	537	449.41/cwt	435.00–460.00	2,413	94
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	432	548.52/cwt	533.00–577.50	2,370	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	484	501.87/cwt	480.00–524.00	2,429	91
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	578	455.52/cwt	440.00–469.00	2,633	434
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	530	385.29/cwt	383.00–388.00	2,042	33
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	487	417.63/cwt	402.50–432.50	2,034	37
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	579	360.39/cwt	352.50–385.00	2,087	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	422	495.92/cwt	485.00–516.00	2,093	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	622	402.53/cwt	400.00–403.00	2,504	53
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	530	425.76/cwt	412.50–440.00	2,257	148

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 24, 2025

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

Receipts 3,284Last week 5,257Year ago 4,218

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
43	450–500	467	540.00	540.00
81	500–550	503	531.00	531.00
187	550–600	557	480.00–490.50	485.47
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
58	400–450	432	533.00–577.50	548.52
91	450–500	484	480.00–524.00	501.87
270	500–550	529	465.00–510.00	484.58
434	550–600	578	440.00–469.00	455.52
338	600–650	615	410.00–452.00	434.27
208	650–700	675	385.00–425.00	412.00
15	700–750	709	357.50–360.00	358.33
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
32	400–450	439	500.00–510.00	504.47
42	450–500	483	452.50–472.50	457.75
94	500–550	537	435.00–460.00	449.41
60	600–650	623	380.00–405.00	384.61
51	650–700	669	352.50–382.50	357.95
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
12	300–350	331	517.50–555.00	532.27
18	350–400	389	516.00	516.00
32	400–450	422	485.00–516.00	495.92
152	450–500	473	430.00–472.50	457.23
148	500–550	530	412.50–440.00	425.76
274	550–600	564	390.00–427.50	412.42
53	600–650	622	400.00–403.00	402.53
5	700–750	707	330.00	330.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
28	400–450	439	425.00–467.00	447.09
37	450–500	487	402.50–432.50	417.63
33	500–550	530	383.00–388.00	385.29
39	550–600	579	352.50–385.00	360.39

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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