Name: Lexington livestock auction prices — 2025-12-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-19

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week steers and heifers sold steady to 20.00 higher. Demand was good from the buyers in the crowd. Most consignments were long time weaned and fall vaccinated with a few fall vaccinated bawling consignments mixed in the offering.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $474.23/cwt on 80 head. That ranks 8 of 18 comparable sales and sits −5.33 against this barn's trailing median of $479.56.

Average price

$474.23

80 head · 536 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,540

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$50

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

$22.87/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−1.94

vs NE average

+30.13 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	529	484.52	2,561	44
Medium and Large 1-2	544	461.65	2,511	36

One grade step is worth $22.87/cwt here — about $50 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 sale80 hd

474.23

—

NE average6 barns · 1,567 hd

476.17

−1.94

National average163 barns · 16,063 hd

444.10

+30.13

This barn, trailing median18 sales

479.56

−5.33

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

25 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 1	400–450	400	488.00/cwt	488.00–488.00	1,952	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	563	419.54/cwt	408.00–429.00	2,362	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	727	348.55/cwt	347.00–349.50	2,534	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	492	463.34/cwt	450.00–468.50	2,280	46
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	530	450.67/cwt	448.00–451.00	2,389	61
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	687	362.25/cwt	357.00–366.00	2,489	69
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	721	376.14/cwt	368.00–385.00	2,712	95
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	840	354.30/cwt	352.50–362.50	2,976	145
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	545	470.00/cwt	470.00–470.00	2,562	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	544	461.65/cwt	460.00–469.00	2,511	36
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	664	395.75/cwt	395.75–395.75	2,628	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	854	348.50/cwt	348.50–348.50	2,976	46
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	600–650	646	392.00/cwt	392.00–392.00	2,532	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	750–800	774	357.50/cwt	357.50–357.50	2,767	24
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	665	394.61/cwt	387.00–399.00	2,624	25
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	376	532.50/cwt	532.50–532.50	2,002	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	616	431.56/cwt	410.00–438.00	2,658	99
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	787	379.94/cwt	371.00–386.00	2,990	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	493	508.27/cwt	501.00–511.00	2,506	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	525	487.75/cwt	487.50–488.00	2,561	36
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	380	555.00/cwt	555.00–555.00	2,109	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	600–650	620	373.37/cwt	372.50–376.00	2,315	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	614	391.34/cwt	376.00–393.50	2,403	138
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	600–650	626	402.36/cwt	401.50–404.00	2,519	129
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	450–500	492	449.00/cwt	449.00–449.00	2,209	10

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 19, 2025

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

Receipts 1,321Last week 1,019Year ago 2,545

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	400	488.00	488.00
46	450–500	492	450.00–468.50	463.34
61	500–550	530	448.00–451.00	450.67
25	550–600	563	408.00–429.00	419.54
138	600–650	614	376.00–393.50	391.34
69	650–700	687	357.00–366.00	362.25
39	700–750	727	347.00–349.50	348.55
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
10	450–500	492	449.00	449.00
32	600–650	620	372.50–376.00	373.37
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
129	600–650	626	401.50–404.00	402.36
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	380	555.00	555.00
18	450–500	493	501.00–511.00	508.27
36	500–550	525	487.50–488.00	487.75
99	600–650	616	410.00–438.00	431.56
22	650–700	664	395.75	395.75
95	700–750	721	368.00–385.00	376.14
59	750–800	787	371.00–386.00	379.94
145	800–850	840	352.50–362.50	354.30
46	850–900	854	348.50	348.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
8	500–550	545	470.00	470.00
9	600–650	646	392.00	392.00
25	650–700	665	387.00–399.00	394.61
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	376	532.50	532.50
36	500–550	544	460.00–469.00	461.65
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
24	750–800	774	357.50	357.50

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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