Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2024-12-13
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-12-13

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 450 to 499 lbs 2.00 to 3.00 higher, 500 to 549 lbs and 600 to 649 lbs mostly steady, 550 to 599 lbs 6.00 to 8.00 higher. Best test on heifers 500 to 599 lbs mostly steady. Yearling steers and heifers not well compared. Good demand for a few yearlings today. Just a couple loads and a few packages offered, flesh and quality varied. Good to very good demand for calves today. A couple loads offered but most of the offering sold in packages. About a quarter of the calves were weaned, from a week to long time weaned, with the rest coming off the cow. Quite a variety in preconditioning but most calves had at least one full round. Quality varied, from plain to attractive. An active market with farmer feeders and buyers in the seats hoping to fill pens before the holiday break. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, December 20, this will be the last feeder cattle sale of 2024.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $340.16/cwt on 535 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −155.32 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$340.16

535 head · 565 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,922

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$137

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

$36.87/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.04

vs SD average

+15.81 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	564	341.81	1,927	511
Medium and Large 1-2	587	304.94	1,790	24

One grade step is worth $36.87/cwt here — about $137 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

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 sale535 hd

340.16

—

SD average7 barns · 4,573 hd

340.12

+0.04

National average185 barns · 29,268 hd

324.35

+15.81

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−155.32

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

34 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	Large 1	1000–1050	1,019	227.00/cwt	227.00–227.00	2,313	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	570	304.50/cwt	290.00–319.00	1,736	135
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	474	325.40/cwt	316.00–335.00	1,542	175
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	428	348.46/cwt	338.00–363.00	1,491	179
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	719	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,762	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	793	252.50/cwt	252.50–252.50	2,002	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	587	304.94/cwt	301.00–313.00	1,790	24
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	391	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	1,584	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	710	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,924	17
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	662	305.08/cwt	293.00–310.50	2,020	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	534	349.22/cwt	326.00–356.00	1,865	172
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	579	338.05/cwt	319.25–347.50	1,957	339
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	440	412.05/cwt	411.00–413.00	1,813	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	988	258.75/cwt	258.75–258.75	2,556	65
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	609	287.54/cwt	270.00–289.50	1,751	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	465	383.58/cwt	375.00–392.75	1,784	261
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	780	275.50/cwt	275.50–275.50	2,149	78
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	623	314.32/cwt	301.00–321.00	1,958	228
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	583	280.31/cwt	262.50–286.00	1,634	76
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	526	300.04/cwt	297.00–304.00	1,578	62
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	483	347.77/cwt	340.00–354.50	1,680	81
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	663	282.00/cwt	282.00–282.00	1,870	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	345	453.06/cwt	452.00–455.00	1,563	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	370	436.67/cwt	427.50–445.00	1,616	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	517	331.75/cwt	315.00–336.50	1,715	188
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	662	259.29/cwt	259.00–260.00	1,716	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	912	258.00/cwt	258.00–258.00	2,353	21
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	866	271.25/cwt	271.25–271.25	2,349	68
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	330	398.06/cwt	385.00–405.00	1,314	26
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	498	303.00/cwt	303.00–303.00	1,509	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	377	371.95/cwt	360.00–385.00	1,402	41
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	442	322.74/cwt	320.00–331.00	1,427	35
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	632	281.57/cwt	269.50–290.00	1,780	56
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,040	230.00/cwt	230.00–230.00	2,392	42

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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