Name: Gordon livestock auction prices — 2023-02-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-02-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Quality sale of feeder heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable since it has been over a month from last reported sale. Demand moderate to good. Little snow falling in the area.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb steers averaged $199.14/cwt on 534 head.

Average price

$199.14

534 head · 675 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,344

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+4.53

vs NE average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	675	199.14	1,344	534

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

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale534 hd

199.14

—

NE average7 barns · 10,024 hd

194.61

+4.53

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

18 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	—	401	192.50/cwt	192.50–192.50	772	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	501	194.00/cwt	194.00–194.00	972	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	479	191.47/cwt	191.00–192.00	917	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	709	181.75/cwt	181.75–181.75	1,289	34
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	395	200.19/cwt	194.00–201.50	791	44
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	580	183.41/cwt	176.50–186.75	1,064	54
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	644	201.55/cwt	191.00–206.50	1,298	72
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	720	199.80/cwt	189.50–200.75	1,439	85
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	760	187.93/cwt	185.00–190.00	1,428	180
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	567	219.00/cwt	219.00–219.00	1,242	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	530	229.57/cwt	229.00–230.00	1,217	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	850	177.50/cwt	177.50–177.50	1,509	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	752	176.10/cwt	165.00–178.60	1,324	104
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	613	185.14/cwt	174.50–189.50	1,135	113
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	684	175.55/cwt	172.25–179.75	1,201	116
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	416	229.98/cwt	229.00–236.00	957	36
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	489	215.76/cwt	214.00–230.00	1,055	51
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	673	197.04/cwt	194.50–202.00	1,326	63

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 Feb 14, 2023

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

Receipts 1,166Last week 2,455Year ago 1,759

Quality sale of feeder heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable since it has been over a month from last reported sale. Demand moderate to good. Little snow falling 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
7	—	401	192.50	192.50
7	—	501	194.00	194.00
11	—	479	191.00–192.00	191.47
34	—	709	181.75	181.75
44	—	395	194.00–201.50	200.19
54	—	580	176.50–186.75	183.41
104	—	752	165.00–178.60	176.10
113	—	613	174.50–189.50	185.14
116	—	684	172.25–179.75	175.55
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
72	—	644	191.00–206.50	201.55
85	—	720	189.50–200.75	199.80
180	—	760	185.00–190.00	187.93
6	—	567	219.00	219.00
14	—	530	229.00–230.00	229.57
27	—	850	177.50	177.50
36	—	416	229.00–236.00	229.98
51	—	489	214.00–230.00	215.76
63	—	673	194.50–202.00	197.04

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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