Name: Gordon livestock auction prices — 2025-01-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-07

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Nice packages of weaned heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable been awhile since last sale. Demand moderate to good.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $374.67/cwt on 154 head. That ranks 1 of 4 comparable sales and sits −101.57 against this barn's trailing median of $476.24.

Average price

$374.67

154 head · 528 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,980

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$143

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

$67.72/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+18.85

vs NE average

+32.59 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	517	386.54	1,998	127
Medium and Large 1-2	582	318.82	1,856	27

One grade step is worth $67.72/cwt here — about $143 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

4 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $481.43, low $459.82, median $476.24 across 4 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 sale154 hd

374.67

—

NE average5 barns · 1,430 hd

355.81

+18.85

National average155 barns · 22,672 hd

342.08

+32.59

This barn, trailing median4 sales

476.24

−101.57

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

19 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
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	681	303.94/cwt	301.00–305.00	2,070	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	623	337.00/cwt	315.00–338.50	2,100	95
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	441	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	1,610	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	779	286.75/cwt	286.75–286.75	2,234	34
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	471	351.20/cwt	341.00–355.00	1,654	85
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	370	374.62/cwt	370.00–385.00	1,386	62
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	306.87/cwt	291.00–312.00	1,761	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	442	396.64/cwt	396.00–401.00	1,753	134
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	444	363.65/cwt	357.00–364.00	1,615	113
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	612	292.26/cwt	289.50–296.25	1,789	92
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	503	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	1,534	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	376	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,542	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	582	318.82/cwt	308.00–322.50	1,856	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	517	386.54/cwt	382.00–388.00	1,998	127
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	495	359.76/cwt	351.00–366.00	1,781	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	712	308.87/cwt	295.00–310.25	2,199	101
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	723	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,894	48
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	504	339.91/cwt	321.00–344.00	1,713	28
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	886	231.74/cwt	230.00–233.00	2,053	12

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 Jan 7, 2025

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

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Nice packages of weaned heifers and steers. No trend will be applicable been awhile since last sale. 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
29	350–400	376	410.00	410.00
134	400–450	442	396.00–401.00	396.64
19	450–500	495	351.00–366.00	359.76
127	500–550	517	382.00–388.00	386.54
95	600–650	623	315.00–338.50	337.00
42	650–700	681	301.00–305.00	303.94
101	700–750	712	295.00–310.25	308.87
34	750–800	779	286.75	286.75
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	400–450	441	365.00	365.00
27	550–600	582	308.00–322.50	318.82
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
62	350–400	370	370.00–385.00	374.62
113	400–450	444	357.00–364.00	363.65
85	450–500	471	341.00–355.00	351.20
28	500–550	504	321.00–344.00	339.91
59	550–600	574	291.00–312.00	306.87
92	600–650	612	289.50–296.25	292.26
48	700–750	723	262.00	262.00
12	850–900	886	230.00–233.00	231.74
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	500–550	503	305.00	305.00

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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