Name: Lexington livestock auction prices — 2024-12-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-12-20

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Nice offering of long yearlings and weaned calves on offer with some bawling calves selling in the mix. Compared to last week steers 500-650 lbs sold steady to 10.00 higher and yearling steers sold steady. Heifers under 650 lbs sold uneven. Demand was moderate to good from the buyers in the seats.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $349.76/cwt on 212 head. That ranks 1 of 18 comparable sales and sits −129.80 against this barn's trailing median of $479.56.

Average price

$349.76

212 head · 549 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,919

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$241

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

$30.94/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−1.39

vs NE average

+23.13 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	550	351.94	1,936	197
Medium and Large 1-2	528	321.00	1,695	15thin

One grade step is worth $30.94/cwt here — about $241 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

18 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $525.53, low $429.68, median $479.56 across 18 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 sale212 hd

349.76

—

NE average8 barns · 2,966 hd

351.15

−1.39

National average173 barns · 17,754 hd

326.63

+23.13

This barn, trailing median18 sales

479.56

−129.80

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

40 lots · USDA AMS · Lexington Livestock Market - Lexington, 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	600–650	625	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,688	28
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	650–700	657	252.00/cwt	252.00–252.00	1,656	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	450–500	457	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,417	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Full	450–500	494	311.00/cwt	311.00–311.00	1,536	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	433	335.56/cwt	331.00–345.00	1,453	50
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	653	268.61/cwt	260.00–270.00	1,754	43
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	528	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	1,695	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed	400–450	437	374.00/cwt	374.00–374.00	1,634	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	953	262.75/cwt	262.75–262.75	2,504	261
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	370	384.00/cwt	384.00–384.00	1,421	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1Full	850–900	856	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	2,243	340
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	507	361.33/cwt	351.00–369.00	1,832	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	600–650	643	296.00/cwt	296.00–296.00	1,903	20
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Full	400–450	405	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,418	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	624	313.22/cwt	304.00–319.00	1,954	118
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	608	282.00/cwt	282.00–282.00	1,715	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	450–500	464	369.88/cwt	369.00–372.00	1,716	31
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	569	350.07/cwt	339.00–358.00	1,992	123
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	350–400	371	362.41/cwt	360.00–364.00	1,345	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	500–550	543	342.00/cwt	342.00–342.00	1,857	24
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	321	409.00/cwt	409.00–409.00	1,313	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	650–700	655	299.75/cwt	299.75–299.75	1,963	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	750–800	773	265.47/cwt	262.50–268.00	2,052	55
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	700–750	731	278.21/cwt	275.00–280.00	2,034	97
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	381	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,276	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	720	257.97/cwt	252.50–263.50	1,857	112
Steers	Medium and Large 1Full	800–850	844	262.88/cwt	262.00–263.50	2,219	84
Steers	Medium and Large 1Full	700–750	745	281.45/cwt	278.00–282.00	2,097	211
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	528	315.51/cwt	307.00–319.00	1,666	82
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	586	283.40/cwt	277.00–288.00	1,661	156
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	607	281.37/cwt	280.00–284.00	1,708	62
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	384	374.13/cwt	370.00–380.00	1,437	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	850–900	892	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	2,239	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	434	384.17/cwt	384.00–385.00	1,667	36
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	785	248.50/cwt	248.50–248.50	1,951	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	345	363.00/cwt	363.00–363.00	1,252	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	592	273.00/cwt	273.00–273.00	1,616	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	477	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,340	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	900	243.50/cwt	243.50–243.50	2,192	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	500–550	505	332.02/cwt	328.00–335.00	1,677	52

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 →

Lexington Livestock Market - Lexington, NE

Fri Dec 20, 2024

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

Receipts 2,545Last week 3,596Year ago 1,658

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
50	400–450	433	331.00–345.00	335.56
22	450–500	457	310.00	310.00
28	600–650	625	270.00	270.00
9	650–700	657	252.00	252.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
27	450–500	494	311.00	311.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	350–400	384	370.00–380.00	374.13
82	500–550	528	307.00–319.00	315.51
156	550–600	586	277.00–288.00	283.40
62	600–650	607	280.00–284.00	281.37
43	650–700	653	260.00–270.00	268.61
112	700–750	720	252.50–263.50	257.97
19	750–800	785	248.50	248.50
18	900–950	900	243.50	243.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	345	363.00	363.00
13	350–400	381	335.00	335.00
10	450–500	477	281.00	281.00
9	550–600	592	273.00	273.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
52	500–550	505	328.00–335.00	332.02
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	300–350	321	409.00	409.00
10	350–400	370	384.00	384.00
15	500–550	528	321.00	321.00
6	600–650	608	282.00	282.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	437	374.00	374.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
50	500–550	507	351.00–369.00	361.33
123	550–600	569	339.00–358.00	350.07
118	600–650	624	304.00–319.00	313.22
261	950–1000	953	262.75	262.75
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
211	700–750	745	278.00–282.00	281.45
84	800–850	844	262.00–263.50	262.88
340	850–900	856	262.00	262.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
36	400–450	434	384.00–385.00	384.17
31	450–500	464	369.00–372.00	369.88
24	500–550	543	342.00	342.00
20	600–650	643	296.00	296.00
22	650–700	655	299.75	299.75
97	700–750	731	275.00–280.00	278.21
55	750–800	773	262.50–268.00	265.47
29	850–900	892	251.00	251.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
8	400–450	405	350.00	350.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
12	350–400	371	360.00–364.00	362.41

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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