Name: Gordon livestock auction prices — 2025-11-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-11-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Loads mostly made up of packages of bawling heifers and steers plus a few fall calves. A few spring shots most had preconditioned shots. Prices on the mix side, some higher while some where lower compared to a week ago. Demand moderate to good.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $435.34/cwt on 287 head. That ranks 1 of 4 comparable sales and sits −40.90 against this barn's trailing median of $476.24.

Average price

$435.34

287 head · 558 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,430

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$43

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

$37.02/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−15.61

vs NE average

+16.24 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	556	437.02	2,431	274
Medium and Large 1-2	597	400.00	2,388	13thin

One grade step is worth $37.02/cwt here — about $43 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale287 hd

435.34

—

NE average12 barns · 6,837 hd

450.95

−15.61

National average195 barns · 36,957 hd

419.10

+16.24

This barn, trailing median4 sales

476.24

−40.90

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

21 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	300–350	309	455.00/cwt	455.00–455.00	1,406	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	643	361.00/cwt	361.00–361.00	2,321	28
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	539	378.53/cwt	365.00–381.00	2,040	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	359	457.45/cwt	445.00–460.00	1,642	41
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	575	359.89/cwt	350.00–385.00	2,069	63
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	438	406.82/cwt	405.00–415.00	1,782	65
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	485	430.00/cwt	430.00–430.00	2,086	26
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	490	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,666	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	597	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	2,388	13
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	633	359.00/cwt	359.00–359.00	2,272	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	519	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,765	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	592	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,865	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	339	525.00/cwt	525.00–525.00	1,780	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	741	326.00/cwt	326.00–326.00	2,416	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	679	340.16/cwt	332.00–352.00	2,310	31
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	520	461.63/cwt	457.00–475.00	2,400	48
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	609	400.87/cwt	399.00–405.50	2,441	64
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	421	521.27/cwt	491.00–531.00	2,195	69
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	471	502.74/cwt	487.50–518.00	2,368	118
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	564	431.79/cwt	405.00–444.50	2,435	226
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	475	379.10/cwt	365.00–396.00	1,801	155

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 Nov 4, 2025

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

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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
9	300–350	309	455.00	455.00
41	350–400	359	445.00–460.00	457.45
65	400–450	438	405.00–415.00	406.82
155	450–500	475	365.00–396.00	379.10
39	500–550	539	365.00–381.00	378.53
63	550–600	575	350.00–385.00	359.89
28	600–650	643	361.00	361.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	490	340.00	340.00
10	500–550	519	340.00	340.00
7	550–600	592	315.00	315.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
26	450–500	485	430.00	430.00
13	550–600	597	400.00	400.00
15	600–650	633	359.00	359.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	300–350	339	525.00	525.00
69	400–450	421	491.00–531.00	521.27
118	450–500	471	487.50–518.00	502.74
48	500–550	520	457.00–475.00	461.63
226	550–600	564	405.00–444.50	431.79
64	600–650	609	399.00–405.50	400.87
31	650–700	679	332.00–352.00	340.16
11	700–750	741	326.00	326.00

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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