Name: Ericson livestock auction prices — 2025-02-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week steers over 600 lbs sold steady to 7.00 higher and heifer over 600 lbs sold sharply lower except for 750-800 lbs heifers that sold steady to 9.00 higher. Demand was moderate to good from the buyers in the crowd with internet bidding and buying noticed. The consignment sheet consisted of long time weaned and vaccinated steers and heifers.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $365.65/cwt on 150 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −137.84 against this barn's trailing median of $503.49.

Average price

$365.65

150 head · 534 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,954

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$204

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

$38.62/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.18

vs NE average

+23.27 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	534	371.58	1,985	127
Medium and Large 1-2	535	332.96	1,781	23

One grade step is worth $38.62/cwt here — about $204 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

16 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $521.41, low $484.92, median $503.49 across 16 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 sale150 hd

365.65

—

NE average10 barns · 3,094 hd

365.83

−0.18

National average187 barns · 18,766 hd

342.38

+23.27

This barn, trailing median16 sales

503.49

−137.84

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

31 lots · USDA AMS · Ericson Livestock Market - Ericson, 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	850–900	879	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	2,110	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	354	390.00/cwt	390.00–390.00	1,381	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	734	273.00/cwt	273.00–273.00	2,004	55
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	800	257.50/cwt	257.50–257.50	2,060	63
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	494	339.83/cwt	335.00–342.00	1,679	99
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	671	277.35/cwt	271.50–281.50	1,861	185
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	603	322.50/cwt	322.50–322.50	1,945	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	961	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	2,403	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	592	322.00/cwt	322.00–322.00	1,906	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	609	346.25/cwt	346.25–346.25	2,109	64
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	740	284.71/cwt	284.00–286.00	2,107	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	692	291.68/cwt	289.00–298.00	2,018	57
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	466	381.60/cwt	375.00–387.00	1,778	39
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	528	375.76/cwt	370.00–379.00	1,984	91
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	467	362.89/cwt	360.00–365.00	1,695	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	402	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	1,668	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	550	361.00/cwt	361.00–361.00	1,986	36
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	519	336.00/cwt	336.00–336.00	1,744	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	711	303.76/cwt	297.50–311.75	2,160	166
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	650–700	693	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	2,037	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	663	328.93/cwt	315.00–337.75	2,181	205
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	403	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	1,443	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	463	331.26/cwt	329.00–333.00	1,534	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	823	287.48/cwt	277.00–289.25	2,366	135
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	384	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,536	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	619	294.71/cwt	287.00–303.00	1,824	262
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	768	299.59/cwt	288.50–305.25	2,301	274
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	773	272.06/cwt	264.00–273.75	2,103	218
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	387	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	1,413	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	519	319.91/cwt	317.00–321.00	1,660	61
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	700–750	703	299.84/cwt	295.00–301.50	2,108	67

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.

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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
10	350–400	354	390.00	390.00
99	450–500	494	335.00–342.00	339.83
262	600–650	619	287.00–303.00	294.71
185	650–700	671	271.50–281.50	277.35
55	700–750	734	273.00	273.00
218	750–800	773	264.00–273.75	272.06
63	800–850	800	257.50	257.50
6	850–900	879	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
22	650–700	693	294.00	294.00
67	700–750	703	295.00–301.50	299.84
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	350–400	387	365.00	365.00
6	400–450	403	358.00	358.00
40	450–500	463	329.00–333.00	331.26
61	500–550	519	317.00–321.00	319.91
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	384	400.00	400.00
30	450–500	467	360.00–365.00	362.89
18	500–550	519	336.00	336.00
5	550–600	592	322.00	322.00
5	600–650	603	322.50	322.50
57	650–700	692	289.00–298.00	291.68
42	700–750	740	284.00–286.00	284.71
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	400–450	402	415.00	415.00
39	450–500	466	375.00–387.00	381.60
91	500–550	528	370.00–379.00	375.76
36	550–600	550	361.00	361.00
64	600–650	609	346.25	346.25
205	650–700	663	315.00–337.75	328.93
166	700–750	711	297.50–311.75	303.76
274	750–800	768	288.50–305.25	299.59
135	800–850	823	277.00–289.25	287.48
5	950–1000	961	250.00	250.00

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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