Sale reports / South Dakota / Herreid Livestock Market / 2025-01-03

Herreid Livestock Market

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Jan 3
● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024
Receipts
2,112 head
417 vs last sale 1,695 290 vs year ago 2,402 · 12.1%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Different weight classes of both yearlings and calves compared to two weeks ago so an accurate price trend can not be developed. Good demand for both yearlings and calves today. A handful of loads and a few packages of yearlings, mostly heifers, in mostly moderate to moderate plus flesh condition. Quality varied, from plain to attractive. A nice offering of calves, most of these weaned and vaccinated, including a couple loads of backgrounded steers. Calves open haired and in moderate to moderate plus flesh. An active market seen for this first offering of the year. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, January 10.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $343.17/cwt on 63 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits 152.30 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.
Average price
$343.17
63 head · 541 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,856
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
5.01
vs SD average
+10.30 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1541343.171,85663
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
533504475446median 495.4812/1902/0603/0604/1706/12
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 sale63 hd
343.17
SD average4 barns · 1,283 hd
348.19
−5.01
National average40 barns · 9,035 hd
332.87
+10.30
This barn, trailing median16 sales
495.48
−152.30
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

31 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 1900–950941237.75/cwt237.75–237.752,23792
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700675266.26/cwt259.50–271.001,797121
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650611277.00/cwt277.00–277.001,69222
HeifersMedium and Large 1350–400371369.00/cwt369.00–369.001,3695
HeifersMedium and Large 1500–550528305.69/cwt299.00–313.001,61428
HeifersMedium and Large 1300–350330403.00/cwt403.00–403.001,33012
SteersMedium and Large 1450–500466387.50/cwt387.50–387.501,8069
SteersMedium and Large 1350–400398405.06/cwt402.00–409.501,61222
SteersMedium and Large 1500–550532346.20/cwt333.50–353.001,84250
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650620255.00/cwt255.00–255.001,5814
SteersMedium and Large 1-2800–850831240.00/cwt240.00–240.001,99429
SteersMedium and Large 1550–600566345.00/cwt345.00–345.001,9538
SteersMedium and Large 1300–350336460.00/cwt460.00–460.001,54610
SteersMedium and Large 1900–950912260.45/cwt249.00–265.002,375113
SteersMedium and Large 1-2450–500495315.00/cwt315.00–315.001,55910
SteersMedium and Large 1600–650633304.68/cwt299.00–311.001,929140
SteersMedium and Large 1750–800773276.82/cwt266.00–284.252,140245
SteersMedium and Large 1850–900868272.02/cwt271.25–272.752,361283
SteersMedium and Large 1400–450403392.50/cwt392.50–392.501,5829
HeifersMedium and Large 1550–600567290.00/cwt290.00–290.001,64411
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700672285.48/cwt275.00–298.501,91836
HeifersMedium and Large 1750–800750233.00/cwt233.00–233.001,74813
HeifersMedium and Large 1450–500493294.00/cwt294.00–294.001,4496
HeifersMedium and Large 1800–850816256.50/cwt256.50–256.502,09327
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy550–600590310.00/cwt310.00–310.001,8295
HeifersMedium and Large 1700–750724245.00/cwt245.00–245.001,7744
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750720283.41/cwt265.00–291.002,041135
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2900–950918220.00/cwt220.00–220.002,02021
HeifersMedium and Large 1850–900881247.00/cwt247.00–247.002,176164
HeifersMedium and Large 1950–1000978237.50/cwt237.50–237.502,323259
HeifersMedium and Large 1400–450414347.50/cwt347.50–347.501,4398

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.