Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-01-31
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-31

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 650 to 749 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 6.00 higher on 650 to 699 lbs. Heifers not well compared. Very good demand for this very attractive offering of many packages, loads and several multiple loads of both home raised and backgrounded cattle. Cattle were clean hided and open haired and in mostly moderate to moderate plus flesh. An active market with buyers and farmer feeders competing for cattle. Quite a few multiple load offerings went to the same buyer to fill pens. Dry and mild conditions again this week with no snow. Next week looks colder but still nice for February, this has been an easy winter for feeders and producers. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, February 7.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $363.76/cwt on 177 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −131.72 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$363.76

177 head · 559 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,034

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$229

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

$33.48/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.53

vs SD average

+15.10 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	561	369.44	2,074	147
Medium and Large 1-2	549	335.96	1,845	30

One grade step is worth $33.48/cwt here — about $229 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 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 sale177 hd

363.76

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SD average6 barns · 2,091 hd

364.29

−0.53

National average177 barns · 23,098 hd

348.66

+15.10

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−131.72

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

30 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
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	350–400	359	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	1,705	11
Bulls	Medium and Large 1	400–450	449	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	1,818	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	909	237.00/cwt	237.00–237.00	2,154	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	468	364.11/cwt	357.00–370.00	1,704	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	859	241.52/cwt	240.00–244.00	2,075	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	475	335.97/cwt	334.00–337.50	1,596	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	480	376.70/cwt	367.50–382.00	1,808	37
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	369.19/cwt	355.00–380.50	2,119	109
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	865	284.72/cwt	283.75–285.75	2,463	136
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	532	331.01/cwt	325.00–339.00	1,761	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	336	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,478	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	427	413.15/cwt	410.00–420.00	1,764	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	564	340.29/cwt	321.00–349.00	1,919	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	808	300.24/cwt	291.50–302.50	2,426	144
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	782	300.11/cwt	296.25–310.00	2,347	212
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	725	308.47/cwt	292.00–312.25	2,236	284
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	685	315.11/cwt	306.00–328.50	2,159	452
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	525	370.14/cwt	359.00–380.00	1,943	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	636	281.82/cwt	273.00–288.00	1,792	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	750–800	758	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	2,229	36
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	700–750	732	297.74/cwt	296.00–298.00	2,179	90
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	417	397.32/cwt	379.00–408.00	1,657	35
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	746	285.50/cwt	285.50–285.50	2,130	77
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	623	344.12/cwt	323.00–350.00	2,144	621
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	667	302.35/cwt	289.50–305.75	2,017	275
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	755	274.00/cwt	274.00–274.00	2,069	28
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	592	295.12/cwt	292.00–307.00	1,747	78
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	537	334.72/cwt	321.00–343.00	1,797	100
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	614	309.40/cwt	297.00–314.50	1,900	220
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	527	316.00/cwt	316.00–316.00	1,665	14

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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