Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2025-11-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-11-21

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Packages of bawling and long weaned calves. Shots consisted of preconditioned and just spring shots. Prices on the mix side on the steers and heifers. Demand moderate to good.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $422.88/cwt on 230 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −64.42 against this barn's trailing median of $487.30.

Average price

$422.88

230 head · 557 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,356

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$92

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

$40.24/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−5.52

vs NE average

+12.80 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	553	427.60	2,365	203
Medium and Large 1-2	587	387.36	2,274	27

One grade step is worth $40.24/cwt here — about $92 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale230 hd

422.88

—

NE average9 barns · 2,105 hd

428.40

−5.52

National average185 barns · 23,076 hd

410.08

+12.80

This barn, trailing median8 sales

487.30

−64.42

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

23 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	350–400	360	460.00/cwt	460.00–460.00	1,656	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	629	332.75/cwt	325.00–350.00	2,093	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	457	455.83/cwt	435.00–462.50	2,083	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	428	456.36/cwt	454.00–470.00	1,953	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	581	378.50/cwt	378.50–378.50	2,199	58
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	659	341.00/cwt	341.00–341.00	2,247	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	339	485.00/cwt	485.00–485.00	1,644	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	427	425.00/cwt	425.00–425.00	1,815	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	587	387.36/cwt	385.00–388.00	2,274	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	715	303.00/cwt	303.00–303.00	2,166	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	373	505.00/cwt	505.00–505.00	1,884	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	474	478.12/cwt	472.50–483.00	2,266	28
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	757	323.00/cwt	323.00–323.00	2,445	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	431	513.56/cwt	510.00–514.00	2,213	44
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	515	470.00/cwt	470.00–470.00	2,421	54
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	517	397.76/cwt	375.00–411.00	2,056	118
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	567	412.24/cwt	396.00–429.00	2,337	149
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	380	447.50/cwt	447.50–447.50	1,701	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	425	426.05/cwt	422.50–430.00	1,811	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	475	407.12/cwt	396.00–417.50	1,934	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	674	375.93/cwt	375.00–376.00	2,534	89
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	496	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	1,996	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	611	398.00/cwt	398.00–398.00	2,432	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 Nov 21, 2025

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

Receipts 948Last week 0Year ago 1,041

Packages of bawling and long weaned calves. Shots consisted of preconditioned and just spring shots. Prices on the mix side on the steers and heifers. Demand moderate to good.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	350–400	360	460.00	460.00
57	400–450	428	454.00–470.00	456.36
25	450–500	457	435.00–462.50	455.83
118	500–550	517	375.00–411.00	397.76
58	550–600	581	378.50	378.50
20	600–650	629	325.00–350.00	332.75
58	650–700	659	341.00	341.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	350–400	380	447.50	447.50
12	400–450	425	422.50–430.00	426.05
15	450–500	475	396.00–417.50	407.12
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	339	485.00	485.00
16	400–450	427	425.00	425.00
6	450–500	496	402.50	402.50
27	550–600	587	385.00–388.00	387.36
5	700–750	715	303.00	303.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	373	505.00	505.00
44	400–450	431	510.00–514.00	513.56
28	450–500	474	472.50–483.00	478.12
54	500–550	515	470.00	470.00
149	550–600	567	396.00–429.00	412.24
15	600–650	611	398.00	398.00
89	650–700	674	375.00–376.00	375.93
16	750–800	757	323.00	323.00

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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