Sale reports / Nebraska / Gordon / 2024-03-12

Gordon

Name: Gordon livestock auction prices — 2024-03-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-03-12

Feeder Cattle · Gordon, Nebraska · Tue, Mar 12

● Final16 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1858

← Feb 13Mar 12Apr 23 →

Receipts

573 head

▼ 1,071 vs last sale 1,644▼ 428 vs year ago 1,001 · −42.8%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Quality sale of feeder heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable. Nice warm day with demand moderate to good.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $286.00/cwt on 49 head. That ranks 1 of 4 comparable sales and sits −137.55 against this barn's trailing median of $423.55.

Average price

$286.00

49 head · 557 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,592

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−3.88

vs NE average

+9.83 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	557	286.00	1,592	49

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale49 hd

286.00

—

NE average8 barns · 1,039 hd

289.88

−3.88

National average176 barns · 16,729 hd

276.17

+9.83

This barn, trailing median4 sales

423.55

−137.55

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

4 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $450.45, low $379.34, median $423.55 across 4 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot, as filed

16 lots · USDA AMS · Gordon Livestock Market - Gordon, NE

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	347	348.00/cwt	348.00–348.00	1,208	9
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	362	360.45/cwt	344.00–375.00	1,305	15
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	366	324.00/cwt	324.00–324.00	1,186	5
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	455	339.00/cwt	339.00–339.00	1,542	5
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	500	318.00/cwt	318.00–318.00	1,590	5
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	514	290.00/cwt	290.00–290.00	1,491	5
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	555	323.00/cwt	323.00–323.00	1,793	47
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	742	276.00/cwt	276.00–276.00	2,048	72
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	844	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	2,026	17
Feeder Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	366	315.79/cwt	302.50–325.00	1,156	23
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	438	298.00/cwt	298.00–298.00	1,305	41
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	457	304.98/cwt	291.00–317.50	1,394	40
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	517	302.59/cwt	300.00–304.50	1,564	23
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	592	271.32/cwt	265.00–274.00	1,606	26
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	612	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,652	15
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	756	256.75/cwt	256.75–256.75	1,941	75

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 →

Gordon Livestock Market - Gordon, NE

Tue Mar 12, 2024

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

Receipts 573Last week 1,644Year ago 1,001

Quality sale of feeder heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable. Nice warm day with demand moderate to good.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	300–350	347	348.00	348.00
15	350–400	362	344.00–375.00	360.45
5	450–500	455	339.00	339.00
5	500–550	500	318.00	318.00
47	550–600	555	323.00	323.00
72	700–750	742	276.00	276.00
17	800–850	844	240.00	240.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	350–400	366	324.00	324.00
5	500–550	514	290.00	290.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
23	350–400	366	302.50–325.00	315.79
41	400–450	438	298.00	298.00
40	450–500	457	291.00–317.50	304.98
23	500–550	517	300.00–304.50	302.59
26	550–600	592	265.00–274.00	271.32
15	600–650	612	270.00	270.00
75	750–800	756	256.75	256.75

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.