Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-03-22
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-03-22

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Different weight classes than last week so an accurate price trend can not be developed. Very good demand for today's light offering featuring many loads and a few packages of mostly finishing type cattle. Cattle were both back grounded and home raised, many colored cattle on offer. Cattle were clean hided and attractive in quality, flesh condition mostly moderate to moderate plus. An active market with mostly order buyers in attendance today. This sale ended before the release of the cattle on feed report but the board was lower at the time of this writing. This area saw a few inches of snow last night and a larger system is forecasted for the weekend into early next week with snowfall expected to be over a foot. No sale next week due to Good Friday, next feeder cattle sale is Friday, April 5. Happy Easter!!

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $348.00/cwt on 93 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −147.48 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$348.00

93 head · 546 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,900

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+6.78

vs SD average

+29.71 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	546	348.00	1,900	93

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

Steers 500–600 lb: high $519.08, low $460.37, median $495.48 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 sale93 hd

348.00

—

SD average6 barns · 782 hd

341.22

+6.78

National average173 barns · 12,551 hd

318.29

+29.71

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−147.48

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

17 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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	539	290.00/cwt	290.00–290.00	1,563	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	487	318.67/cwt	317.50–321.00	1,552	43
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	847	239.75/cwt	239.75–239.75	2,031	44
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	597	290.00/cwt	290.00–290.00	1,731	61
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	696	265.15/cwt	255.00–267.00	1,845	104
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	759	253.63/cwt	240.00–255.50	1,925	150
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	828	257.00/cwt	254.00–259.50	2,128	314
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,032	232.00/cwt	232.00–232.00	2,394	123
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	789	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	2,067	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	692	277.00/cwt	275.50–285.00	1,917	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	929	242.75/cwt	242.75–242.75	2,255	74
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	546	348.00/cwt	348.00–348.00	1,900	93
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	622	308.77/cwt	298.00–319.00	1,921	102
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	892	246.87/cwt	246.50–247.25	2,202	121
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	476	325.00/cwt	325.00–325.00	1,547	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	728	276.91/cwt	275.50–278.25	2,016	153
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	985	235.75/cwt	235.75–235.75	2,322	180

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.

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