Sale reports / South Dakota / Herreid Livestock Market / 2025-05-30

Herreid Livestock Market

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, May 30
● Final19 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024
Receipts
1,374 head
7,415 vs last sale 8,789 1,376 vs year ago 2,750 · 50.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No sale last week due to Memorial Day and too few cattle today to compare to the large offering two weeks ago and develop an accurate price trend. Good to very good demand for this light offering. Quite a few loads available plus packages to fill loads, many of these light and green enough for grass. Recent moisture has relieved much of the concern over grass conditions and producers are back to wanting cattle to fill pastures. Flesh condition mostly light to moderate plus today with some tag on the cattle at times due to the recent rains. An active market with a full house of buyers, farmer feeder and producers interested in filling pens and pastures with feeder cattle, replacement heifers, and pairs. Watch local listings for the next feeder cattle sale.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $380.00/cwt on 6 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits 115.48 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.
Average price
$380.00
6 head · 569 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,162
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
2.28
vs SD average
+5.86 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1569380.002,1626thin
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 sale6 hd
380.00
SD average2 barns · 25 hd
382.28
−2.28
National average120 barns · 5,578 hd
374.14
+5.86
This barn, trailing median16 sales
495.48
−115.48
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

19 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 1550–600575347.00/cwt344.00–349.001,99518
HeifersMedium and Large 1800–850823286.50/cwt286.50–286.502,35819
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700694317.00/cwt317.00–317.002,20034
HeifersMedium and Large 1750–800786304.00/cwt304.00–304.002,38934
HeifersMedium and Large 1900–950912285.16/cwt281.00–287.002,60137
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750741334.84/cwt334.50–340.002,48164
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700671356.00/cwt356.00–356.002,3899
SteersMedium and Large 1900–950937289.00/cwt289.00–289.002,70864
SteersMedium and Large 1950–1000961288.75/cwt288.75–288.752,77544
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2500–550540335.00/cwt335.00–335.001,8094
HeifersMedium and Large 1700–750739306.94/cwt303.00–308.002,26851
SteersMedium and Large 1850–900890299.84/cwt297.50–303.002,669184
SteersMedium and Large 1550–600569380.00/cwt380.00–380.002,1626
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement800–850819300.35/cwt300.00–300.502,46096
SteersMedium and Large 1600–650616371.22/cwt367.00–374.002,28733
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650617340.00/cwt340.00–340.002,0989
SteersMedium and Large 1800–850842307.79/cwt306.50–314.002,592102
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650617323.70/cwt318.00–335.001,997106
SteersMedium and Large 1750–800766330.82/cwt320.00–339.002,534229

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.