Sale reports / South Dakota / Herreid Livestock Market / 2019-10-12

Herreid Livestock Market

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Sat, Oct 12
● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024
Receipts
1,515 head
325 vs last sale 1,190 1,515 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

This week's sale held on Saturday due to the winter weather this week. Different weight classes of yearlings today than last week, an accurate trend could not be established. Moderate to good demand for today's yearling offering consisting of mostly strings off grass. Flesh mostly light to moderate. A moderate market seen for today's offering with the winter weather and travel conditions putting some pressure on the market. Much of North and South Dakota received snow and wind creating blizzard conditions and icy roads the past few days. These difficult conditions have pushed harvest and fall work further behind and caused much stress to producers. Big Anniversary sale next Friday, October 18, expecting 2000 head of yearlings and 2000 calves.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $142.96/cwt on 1,061 head.
Average price
$142.96
1,061 head · 947 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,353
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$57
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1
$8.23/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+0.13
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1914145.771,332699
Large 11,010137.541,389362
One grade step is worth $8.23/cwt here — about −$57 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale1,061 hd
142.96
SD average8 barns · 13,000 hd
142.83
+0.13
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

10 lots · USDA AMS · Herreid Livestock Market - Herreid, SD
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2667116.00/cwt116.00–116.0077428
HeifersMedium and Large 1679142.50/cwt142.50–142.5096832
SteersMedium and Large 1877144.74/cwt142.25–146.751,269196
SteersLarge 11,010137.54/cwt137.50–137.751,389362
HeifersMedium and Large 1913125.66/cwt125.25–126.001,14755
SteersMedium and Large 1940146.50/cwt146.50–146.501,377313
SteersMedium and Large 1786152.25/cwt152.25–152.251,19767
HeifersMedium and Large 1986125.75/cwt125.75–125.751,240106
HeifersLarge 11,017124.87/cwt124.75–125.001,270130
SteersMedium and Large 1975142.00/cwt137.50–146.501,385123

How this sale compares

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