Name: Oklahoma National Stockyards Market livestock auction prices — 2020-08-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-08-18

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Slaughter cows and bulls sold 1.00-4.00 lower. Demand moderate. A total of 320 cows and bulls sold with 66 percent going to packers. Please note, The estimated dressed cost will be suspended until further notice.*

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt

Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Bulls	—	Low	1,716	83.82	1,438	25
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,626	62.18	1,011	32
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,247	58.94	735	52
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,071	50.52	541	98

Every lot, as filed

29 lots · USDA AMS · Oklahoma National Stockyards Slaughter/Replacement Cattle - Oklahoma City, OK

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
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,235	68.00/cwt	68.00–68.00	840	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,231	61.91/cwt	58.00–65.00	762	21
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,255	55.87/cwt	54.50–57.00	701	21
Cows	Boner 80-85%Light Weight	—	985	52.00/cwt	52.00–52.00	512	1
Cows	Boner 80-85%Return to Feed	—	1,285	54.00/cwt	54.00–54.00	694	2
Cows	Boner 80-85%Return to Feed	—	1,310	60.55/cwt	59.00–64.00	793	6
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,830	56.00/cwt	56.00–56.00	1,025	1
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,437	69.46/cwt	68.50–70.00	998	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,639	61.62/cwt	58.00–65.50	1,010	28
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,258	63.86/cwt	63.50–64.00	803	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,160	58.78/cwt	56.00–63.00	682	16
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,095	41.17/cwt	40.00–49.00	451	19
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,117	52.20/cwt	50.00–55.50	583	32
Bulls	—	—	2,025	64.00/cwt	64.00–64.00	1,296	1
Bulls	—	—	2,050	93.91/cwt	90.00–96.00	1,925	4
Bulls	—	—	1,501	78.27/cwt	74.00–81.00	1,175	8
Bulls	—	—	1,722	85.80/cwt	83.00–88.50	1,477	12
Cow-Calf Pairs	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,150	1,125.00/cwt	1,125.00–1,125.00	12,938	1
Cow-Calf Pairs	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,300	1,300.00/cwt	1,300.00–1,300.00	16,900	1
Cow-Calf Pairs	Medium and Large 2	—	700	700.00/cwt	700.00–700.00	4,900	1
Cows	Lean 85-90%Light Weight	—	899	61.56/cwt	59.00–65.00	553	4
Cows	Lean 85-90%Light Weight	—	984	52.65/cwt	52.50–54.00	518	10
Cows	Lean 85-90%Light Weight	—	847	39.30/cwt	36.00–46.00	333	12
Cows	Lean 85-90%Return to Feed	—	1,250	58.00/cwt	58.00–58.00	725	1
Bred Cows	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,415	872.51/cwt	870.00–875.00	12,346	2
Bred Cows	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,325	875.00/cwt	875.00–875.00	11,594	1
Bred Cows	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,194	874.03/cwt	800.00–1,000.00	10,436	6
Bred Cows	Medium and Large 1-2	—	855	700.00/cwt	700.00–700.00	5,985	1
Bred Cows	Medium and Large 1-2	—	1,295	919.11/cwt	750.00–1,050.00	11,902	2

How this sale compares

Oklahoma weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Oklahoma auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

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Oklahoma National Stockyards Slaughter/Replacement Cattle - Oklahoma City, OK

Tue Aug 18, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Oklahoma City, OK (LS-KO)

Slaughter CattleReceipts 211Last week 166Year ago 257

Replacement CattleReceipts 109Last week 129Year ago 174

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,235	68.00	68.00
21	—	1,231	58.00–65.00	61.91
21	—	1,255	54.50–57.00	55.87
Cows — Boner 80-85% · Light Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	985	52.00	52.00
Cows — Boner 80-85% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,285	54.00	54.00
6	—	1,310	59.00–64.00	60.55
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,830	56.00	56.00
3	—	1,437	68.50–70.00	69.46
28	—	1,639	58.00–65.50	61.62
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,258	63.50–64.00	63.86
16	—	1,160	56.00–63.00	58.78
19	—	1,095	40.00–49.00	41.17
32	—	1,117	50.00–55.50	52.20
Cows — Lean 85-90% · Light Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	899	59.00–65.00	61.56
10	—	984	52.50–54.00	52.65
12	—	847	36.00–46.00	39.30
Cows — Lean 85-90% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,250	58.00	58.00
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	2,025	64.00	64.00
4	—	2,050	90.00–96.00	93.91
8	—	1,501	74.00–81.00	78.27
12	—	1,722	83.00–88.50	85.80

Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	1	—	1,150	1,125.00	1,125.00
Young (2-4 yrs)	1st Stage (1-3 mo)	1	—	1,300	1,300.00	1,300.00
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
Young (2-4 yrs)	Open	1	—	700	700.00	700.00
Bred Cows — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	1st Stage (1-3 mo)	2	—	1,415	870.00–875.00	872.51
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	1	—	1,325	875.00	875.00
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	6	—	1,194	800.00–1,000.00	874.03
Young (2-4 yrs)	1st Stage (1-3 mo)	1	—	855	700.00	700.00
Young (2-4 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	2	—	1,295	750.00–1,050.00	919.11

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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