Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-02-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-14

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A very light feeder cattle offering today due to cold temps and windchills, best test on heifers 650 to 699 lbs mostly steady with other weight classes not well compared. Good demand for packages and just a couple loads offered today. Quality varied, but mostly average to attractive and moderate to moderate plus for flesh condition. An active market for this light offering with most of the normal crowd of buyers in the seats as well as a few farmer feeders. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, February 21.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $351.46/cwt on 127 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −144.02 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$351.46

127 head · 574 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,017

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−9.30

vs SD average

+12.79 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	574	351.46	2,017	127

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 sale127 hd

351.46

—

SD average8 barns · 1,459 hd

360.76

−9.30

National average155 barns · 9,244 hd

338.67

+12.79

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−144.02

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

16 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
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	675	310.88/cwt	308.00–317.50	2,098	80
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	859	277.95/cwt	265.00–279.75	2,388	84
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	540	322.89/cwt	321.00–331.00	1,744	68
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	725	271.35/cwt	269.50–272.50	1,967	76
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	351.46/cwt	342.00–364.00	2,017	127
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	734	304.64/cwt	302.25–308.00	2,236	151
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	660	291.33/cwt	276.00–300.00	1,923	177
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	418	412.50/cwt	412.50–412.50	1,724	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	496	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	1,910	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	823	279.20/cwt	278.00–281.50	2,298	38
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	623	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	2,056	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	784	283.89/cwt	273.00–285.50	2,226	72
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	638	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,755	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	550	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	1,766	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	496	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,662	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	790	254.50/cwt	254.50–254.50	2,011	32

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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