Name: Huss Livestock livestock auction prices — 2025-02-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week steers over 500 lbs sold steady to 7.00 lower and heifers 550-750 lbs sold steady to 4.00 lower with heifers 750-800 lbs selling 10.00 higher. Demand was moderate to good from the buyers in the seats. The consignment sheet consisted of longtime weaned steers and heifers which was shorter than expected due to a winter storm that moved through much of the trade area.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $350.20/cwt on 170 head. That ranks 1 of 23 comparable sales and sits −133.06 against this barn's trailing median of $483.26.

Average price

$350.20

170 head · 554 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,941

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$162

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

$3.70/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−9.40

vs NE average

+11.53 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	560	350.70	1,963	147
Medium and Large 1-2	519	347.00	1,801	23

One grade step is worth $3.70/cwt here — about $162 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

23 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $519.86, low $448.60, median $483.26 across 23 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 sale170 hd

350.20

—

NE average10 barns · 2,542 hd

359.60

−9.40

National average155 barns · 9,244 hd

338.67

+11.53

This barn, trailing median23 sales

483.26

−133.06

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

24 lots · USDA AMS · Huss Livestock Market - Kearney, 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 1Fleshy	750–800	767	261.00/cwt	261.00–261.00	2,002	37
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	501	336.00/cwt	336.00–336.00	1,683	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	412	352.67/cwt	350.00–356.00	1,453	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	491	348.90/cwt	342.00–356.00	1,713	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	557	307.49/cwt	304.00–315.00	1,713	48
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	714	276.90/cwt	270.50–279.50	1,977	72
Steers	Medium and Large 1	1000–1050	1,021	240.50/cwt	240.50–240.50	2,456	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	524	361.52/cwt	357.00–365.00	1,894	44
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	729	297.72/cwt	289.00–301.50	2,170	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	415	379.00/cwt	379.00–379.00	1,573	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	492	355.55/cwt	355.00–356.00	1,749	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	519	347.00/cwt	347.00–347.00	1,801	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	817	277.96/cwt	272.00–280.00	2,271	87
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	624	327.46/cwt	323.00–339.50	2,043	100
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	575	346.08/cwt	341.50–356.00	1,990	103
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	777	283.93/cwt	280.50–294.50	2,206	204
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	678	310.65/cwt	305.00–318.50	2,106	325
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	860	266.75/cwt	266.75–266.75	2,294	30
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	661	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	1,719	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	679	284.71/cwt	280.00–290.00	1,933	122
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	623	296.22/cwt	291.50–299.50	1,845	154
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	521	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,641	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	585	295.50/cwt	293.50–297.00	1,729	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	753	277.37/cwt	273.50–280.00	2,089	121

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.

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Huss Livestock Market - Kearney, NE

Wed Feb 12, 2025

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

Receipts 1,797Last week 3,782Year ago 5,417

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
37	750–800	767	261.00	261.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	400–450	412	350.00–356.00	352.67
24	450–500	491	342.00–356.00	348.90
8	500–550	501	336.00	336.00
48	550–600	557	304.00–315.00	307.49
154	600–650	623	291.50–299.50	296.22
122	650–700	679	280.00–290.00	284.71
72	700–750	714	270.50–279.50	276.90
121	750–800	753	273.50–280.00	277.37
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	521	315.00	315.00
38	550–600	585	293.50–297.00	295.50
6	650–700	661	260.00	260.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
44	500–550	524	357.00–365.00	361.52
103	550–600	575	341.50–356.00	346.08
100	600–650	624	323.00–339.50	327.46
325	650–700	678	305.00–318.50	310.65
73	700–750	729	289.00–301.50	297.72
204	750–800	777	280.50–294.50	283.93
87	800–850	817	272.00–280.00	277.96
30	850–900	860	266.75	266.75
30	1000–1050	1,021	240.50	240.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	400–450	415	379.00	379.00
18	450–500	492	355.00–356.00	355.55
23	500–550	519	347.00	347.00

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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