Name: West Point Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-09-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-09-16

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in nearly a month a market trend is not applicable. Supply included bawling spring calves, few weaned spring calves and yearlings with the bulk of the yearlings out of backgrounding lots. Some of the calves had fall vaccinations including a respiratory shot. Demand mostly good for the calves with moderate to instances good demand for yearling cattle. Light crowd of buyers on the seats as farmer/feeders are chopping silage or starting to pack high moisture corn.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $285.98/cwt on 48 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −156.44 against this barn's trailing median of $442.42.

Average price

$285.98

48 head · 524 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,498

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+8.96

vs NE average

+48.97 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	524	285.98	1,498	48

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

16 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $458.98, low $400.66, median $442.42 across 16 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 sale48 hd

285.98

—

NE average7 barns · 488 hd

277.02

+8.96

National average181 barns · 11,482 hd

237.01

+48.97

This barn, trailing median16 sales

442.42

−156.44

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

31 lots · USDA AMS · West Point Livestock Feeder Cattle - West Point, 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	Large 1	800–850	843	235.00/cwt	235.00–235.00	1,981	9
Steers	Large 1	900–950	943	226.00/cwt	226.00–226.00	2,131	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	931	211.69/cwt	194.50–213.50	1,971	72
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	430	301.00/cwt	301.00–301.00	1,294	5
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	550–600	586	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,588	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	513	289.05/cwt	287.00–291.00	1,483	39
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	455	309.00/cwt	309.00–309.00	1,406	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	400–450	402	338.00/cwt	338.00–338.00	1,359	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	380	325.77/cwt	313.00–345.00	1,238	14
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	460	307.49/cwt	284.00–313.00	1,414	24
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	800–850	846	235.50/cwt	235.50–235.50	1,992	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	328	875.00/head	875.00–875.00	875	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	448	316.00/cwt	316.00–316.00	1,416	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	566	278.56/cwt	271.00–285.00	1,577	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	886	231.50/cwt	231.50–231.50	2,051	165
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	910	238.75/cwt	238.75–238.75	2,173	53
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	536	312.49/cwt	290.00–320.00	1,675	50
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	795	238.50/cwt	238.50–238.50	1,896	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	886	242.76/cwt	241.00–244.50	2,151	212
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	762	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,829	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	460	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,564	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	659	269.24/cwt	268.00–270.50	1,774	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	815	243.19/cwt	243.00–243.50	1,982	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	842	234.19/cwt	234.00–234.50	1,972	176
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	632	278.17/cwt	273.00–284.25	1,758	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	601	276.00/cwt	276.00–276.00	1,659	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	439	316.07/cwt	309.00–320.00	1,388	21
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	424	338.00/cwt	322.50–351.00	1,433	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	395	327.47/cwt	321.00–335.00	1,294	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	372	363.66/cwt	358.00–374.00	1,353	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	571	272.69/cwt	271.00–274.00	1,557	9

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 →

West Point Livestock Feeder Cattle - West Point, NE

Mon Sep 16, 2024

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

Receipts 1,352Last week 2,032Year ago 1,375

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	800–850	843	235.00	235.00
19	900–950	943	226.00	226.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	430	301.00	301.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	350–400	380	313.00–345.00	325.77
9	400–450	448	316.00	316.00
7	450–500	455	309.00	309.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
16	800–850	846	235.50	235.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	350–400	372	358.00–374.00	363.66
16	400–450	424	322.50–351.00	338.00
7	450–500	460	340.00	340.00
50	500–550	536	290.00–320.00	312.49
11	550–600	566	271.00–285.00	278.56
38	600–650	632	273.00–284.25	278.17
12	650–700	659	268.00–270.50	269.24
11	750–800	762	240.00	240.00
13	800–850	815	243.00–243.50	243.19
212	850–900	886	241.00–244.50	242.76
53	900–950	910	238.75	238.75
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
72	900–950	931	194.50–213.50	211.69
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
15	350–400	395	321.00–335.00	327.47
21	400–450	439	309.00–320.00	316.07
24	450–500	460	284.00–313.00	307.49
39	500–550	513	287.00–291.00	289.05
9	550–600	571	271.00–274.00	272.69
10	600–650	601	276.00	276.00
73	750–800	795	238.50	238.50
176	800–850	842	234.00–234.50	234.19
165	850–900	886	231.50	231.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	402	338.00	338.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per head · actual wt
5	300–350	328	875.00	875.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	550–600	586	271.00	271.00

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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