Name: Woodward Livestock Inc livestock auction prices — 2024-10-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers unevenly steady with several strings of calves from 600 to 800 lbs. Steer and heifer calves steady with mostly unweaned calves in the offering. Demand was moderate. Quality average.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $243.72/cwt on 288 head. That ranks 1 of 32 comparable sales and sits −150.01 against this barn's trailing median of $393.73.

Average price

$243.72

288 head · 560 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,366

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$4

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

$9.13/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.20

vs OK average

−8.96 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	558	244.42	1,365	266
Medium and Large 1-2	582	235.29	1,369	22

One grade step is worth $9.13/cwt here — about −$4 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

32 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $443.73, low $344.75, median $393.73 across 32 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 sale288 hd

243.72

—

OK average6 barns · 1,526 hd

243.53

+0.20

National average183 barns · 16,319 hd

252.68

−8.96

This barn, trailing median32 sales

393.73

−150.01

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

65 lots · USDA AMS · Woodward Livestock Auction Feeder Cattle - Woodward, 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
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	800–850	834	219.95/cwt	214.00–226.00	1,834	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	670	238.10/cwt	222.00–249.00	1,595	44
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	530	244.26/cwt	231.00–251.00	1,295	27
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	750–800	779	212.90/cwt	204.00–217.00	1,658	13
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	650–700	661	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	1,527	11
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	700–750	745	217.50/cwt	217.50–217.50	1,620	7
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	450–500	495	260.17/cwt	251.00–267.00	1,288	7
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	550–600	572	246.00/cwt	246.00–246.00	1,407	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	373	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,026	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	877	233.00/cwt	233.00–233.00	2,043	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	522	244.25/cwt	236.00–250.00	1,275	29
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	566	229.37/cwt	223.00–232.00	1,298	65
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	350–400	390	272.23/cwt	257.00–285.00	1,062	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	400–450	430	250.56/cwt	241.00–270.00	1,077	35
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	582	257.26/cwt	256.00–263.00	1,497	116
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	450–500	483	243.72/cwt	235.00–255.00	1,177	30
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	715	229.80/cwt	227.00–231.00	1,643	47
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	815	229.00/cwt	229.00–229.00	1,866	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	1000–1050	1,029	195.08/cwt	191.00–201.00	2,007	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	342	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	1,043	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	300–350	332	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	896	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	766	226.67/cwt	215.00–231.00	1,736	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	674	239.63/cwt	225.00–245.00	1,615	62
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	622	253.05/cwt	249.00–258.00	1,574	99
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	750–800	785	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	1,758	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	850–900	877	211.45/cwt	209.00–214.00	1,854	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	350–400	357	267.00/cwt	267.00–267.00	953	2
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	700–750	713	237.16/cwt	229.00–240.00	1,691	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	531	256.97/cwt	244.00–262.00	1,365	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	400–450	431	281.70/cwt	261.00–290.00	1,214	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	450–500	482	274.57/cwt	267.00–287.00	1,323	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	431	327.00/cwt	327.00–327.00	1,409	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	589	244.61/cwt	226.00–251.00	1,441	31
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	481	263.43/cwt	262.00–267.00	1,267	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	574	243.55/cwt	242.00–245.00	1,398	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	605	246.54/cwt	222.00–249.00	1,492	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	600–650	634	244.58/cwt	221.00–255.00	1,551	43
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	775	248.23/cwt	235.50–251.50	1,924	57
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	500–550	526	242.00/cwt	242.00–242.00	1,273	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	530	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,389	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	573	264.73/cwt	251.00–274.00	1,517	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	900	230.00/cwt	230.00–230.00	2,070	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	670	252.00/cwt	252.00–252.00	1,688	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	700–750	721	212.82/cwt	210.00–215.00	1,534	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	444	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,110	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	500–550	520	235.37/cwt	222.00–242.00	1,224	56
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	616	259.47/cwt	252.00–268.00	1,598	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	740	249.92/cwt	236.00–253.00	1,849	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	815	228.65/cwt	223.00–235.00	1,863	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	457	292.00/cwt	292.00–292.00	1,334	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	892	212.00/cwt	212.00–212.00	1,891	16
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	450–500	483	264.39/cwt	252.00–290.00	1,277	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	707	240.46/cwt	238.00–241.00	1,700	37
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	411	281.44/cwt	267.00–293.00	1,157	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	582	235.29/cwt	226.00–242.00	1,369	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	800–850	835	206.00/cwt	206.00–206.00	1,720	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	600–650	622	222.58/cwt	220.00–227.00	1,384	53
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	350–400	387	316.57/cwt	301.00–330.00	1,225	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	676	216.44/cwt	208.00–221.00	1,463	45
Bulls	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	611	214.83/cwt	205.00–222.00	1,313	7
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	400–450	433	272.77/cwt	257.00–287.00	1,181	41
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	600–650	636	226.41/cwt	221.00–230.50	1,440	29
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	700–750	704	222.67/cwt	220.00–227.00	1,568	34
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	550–600	581	243.84/cwt	236.00–249.00	1,417	37
Bulls	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	650–700	657	225.49/cwt	224.00–227.00	1,481	10

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.

Oklahoma feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

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Receipts 1,792Last week 1,795Year ago 2,738

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
15	400–450	431	261.00–290.00	281.70
16	450–500	482	267.00–287.00	274.57
22	500–550	531	244.00–262.00	256.97
31	550–600	589	226.00–251.00	244.61
43	600–650	634	221.00–255.00	244.58
44	650–700	670	222.00–249.00	238.10
8	700–750	713	229.00–240.00	237.16
3	750–800	785	224.00	224.00
8	800–850	834	214.00–226.00	219.95
10	850–900	877	209.00–214.00	211.45
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	400–450	431	327.00	327.00
14	450–500	481	262.00–267.00	263.43
3	500–550	530	262.00	262.00
5	550–600	573	251.00–274.00	264.73
11	600–650	616	252.00–268.00	259.47
2	650–700	670	252.00	252.00
16	700–750	740	236.00–253.00	249.92
57	750–800	775	235.50–251.50	248.23
32	800–850	815	223.00–235.00	228.65
31	850–900	877	233.00	233.00
6	900–950	900	230.00	230.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
2	350–400	357	267.00	267.00
5	500–550	526	242.00	242.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	444	250.00	250.00
6	550–600	574	242.00–245.00	243.55
40	600–650	605	222.00–249.00	246.54
Bulls — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	387	301.00–330.00	316.57
41	400–450	433	257.00–287.00	272.77
24	450–500	483	252.00–290.00	264.39
27	500–550	530	231.00–251.00	244.26
37	550–600	581	236.00–249.00	243.84
29	600–650	636	221.00–230.50	226.41
10	650–700	657	224.00–227.00	225.49
34	700–750	704	220.00–227.00	222.67
13	750–800	779	204.00–217.00	212.90
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	450–500	495	251.00–267.00	260.17
4	550–600	572	246.00	246.00
11	650–700	661	231.00	231.00
7	700–750	745	217.50	217.50
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	600–650	611	205.00–222.00	214.83
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
2	300–350	342	305.00	305.00
3	350–400	373	275.00	275.00
6	400–450	411	267.00–293.00	281.44
6	450–500	457	292.00	292.00
29	500–550	522	236.00–250.00	244.25
116	550–600	582	256.00–263.00	257.26
99	600–650	622	249.00–258.00	253.05
62	650–700	674	225.00–245.00	239.63
37	700–750	707	238.00–241.00	240.46
25	750–800	766	215.00–231.00	226.67
31	800–850	815	229.00	229.00
16	850–900	892	212.00	212.00
17	1000–1050	1,029	191.00–201.00	195.08
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
5	300–350	332	270.00	270.00
20	350–400	390	257.00–285.00	272.23
35	400–450	430	241.00–270.00	250.56
30	450–500	483	235.00–255.00	243.72
56	500–550	520	222.00–242.00	235.37
65	550–600	566	223.00–232.00	229.37
53	600–650	622	220.00–227.00	222.58
45	650–700	676	208.00–221.00	216.44
14	700–750	721	210.00–215.00	212.82
7	800–850	835	206.00	206.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
22	550–600	582	226.00–242.00	235.29
47	700–750	715	227.00–231.00	229.80

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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