Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-04-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-04-19

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 700 to 749 lbs mostly steady with other weight classes of steers and heifers not well compared. Good to very good demand for today's offering featuring quite a few strings of backgrounded cattle as well as packages of home raised cattle. More backgrounding type cattle this week and less flesh overall than last week. Quality similar to last week with most cattle average to attractive in quality. An active market with quite a few opportunities to buy multiple loads to fill pens which buyers took advantage of quite often this week. The area saw a little rain this week but cattle remained clean. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, April 26.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $319.37/cwt on 97 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −176.10 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$319.37

97 head · 585 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,867

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−8.07

vs SD average

+14.98 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	585	319.37	1,867	97

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 sale97 hd

319.37

—

SD average7 barns · 745 hd

327.45

−8.07

National average171 barns · 11,979 hd

304.39

+14.98

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−176.10

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

22 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	750–800	770	238.20/cwt	235.00–245.50	1,834	59
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	598	258.00/cwt	258.00–258.00	1,543	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	429	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,330	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	868	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	2,005	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	626	269.00/cwt	269.00–269.00	1,684	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	545	297.50/cwt	297.50–297.50	1,621	45
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,096	216.50/cwt	216.50–216.50	2,373	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	829	264.02/cwt	262.00–268.50	2,189	360
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	731	255.90/cwt	251.50–256.75	1,871	185
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	488	364.00/cwt	364.00–364.00	1,776	19
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,034	228.25/cwt	228.25–228.25	2,360	124
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	533	329.00/cwt	329.00–329.00	1,754	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	971	229.74/cwt	229.00–230.00	2,231	250
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	590	318.39/cwt	314.00–319.00	1,879	88
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	878	251.25/cwt	251.25–251.25	2,206	70
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	743	286.54/cwt	283.50–287.50	2,129	330
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	685	293.17/cwt	284.50–299.50	2,008	273
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	491	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	1,532	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	683	254.40/cwt	252.50–258.00	1,738	71
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	837	239.49/cwt	230.50–246.00	2,005	115
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	944	236.00/cwt	236.00–236.00	2,228	62
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	771	274.88/cwt	266.00–287.50	2,119	232

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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