Name: Gordon livestock auction prices — 2022-08-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-08-16

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Quality run of a few fall calves and yearlings. Prices a little on the higher side. Had some welcomed moisture in the area.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb heifers averaged $177.40/cwt on 266 head.

Average price

$177.40

266 head · 820 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,455

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$434

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

$11.91/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−7.67

vs NE average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1-2	546	189.00	1,032	7thin
Medium and Large 1	828	177.09	1,466	259

One grade step is worth $11.91/cwt here — about −$434 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale266 hd

177.40

—

NE average7 barns · 5,321 hd

185.07

−7.67

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

11 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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	640	190.00/cwt	190.00–190.00	1,216	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	1,005	164.50/cwt	164.50–164.50	1,653	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	931	174.50/cwt	174.50–174.50	1,625	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	828	174.00/cwt	174.00–174.00	1,441	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	786	185.50/cwt	185.50–185.50	1,458	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Spayed	—	926	153.00/cwt	153.00–153.00	1,417	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	546	189.00/cwt	189.00–189.00	1,032	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	872	177.10/cwt	174.00–177.75	1,544	100
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	785	178.25/cwt	175.00–180.75	1,399	84
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	919	174.98/cwt	170.50–176.50	1,608	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	711	178.78/cwt	175.00–180.25	1,271	18

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 Aug 16, 2022

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

Receipts 381Last week 1,058Year ago 1,746

Quality run of a few fall calves and yearlings. Prices a little on the higher side. Had some welcomed moisture in the area.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	640	190.00	190.00
12	—	1,005	164.50	164.50
100	—	872	174.00–177.75	177.10
84	—	785	175.00–180.75	178.25
20	—	919	170.50–176.50	174.98
18	—	711	175.00–180.25	178.78
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	926	153.00	153.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	546	189.00	189.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	931	174.50	174.50
5	—	828	174.00	174.00
5	—	786	185.50	185.50

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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