Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-08-01
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-01

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 950 to 999 lbs mostly steady. Heifers not well compared. Very good demand for today's offering of strings and loads. Flesh varied, from light to heavy, with about two thirds of the cattle coming off grass. Plenty of attractive cattle offered with multiple loads of the same weight class to fill pens. An active market, especially on grass cattle. Cooler weather than last week but still plenty of humidity making it more difficult to get hay put up, grass and crop conditions look good after rains last week. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, August 8.

Weight class

Steers · summary 700–800 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

700–800 lb steers averaged $362.00/cwt on 26 head. That ranks 1 of 18 comparable sales and sits −38.29 against this barn's trailing median of $400.29.

Average price

$362.00

26 head · 777 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,813

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+7.43

vs SD average

+17.18 vs national

What quality paid 700–800 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	777	362.00	2,813	26

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 700–800 lb

18 sales

Steers 700–800 lb: high $424.78, low $380.48, median $400.29 across 18 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 700–800 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale26 hd

362.00

—

SD average2 barns · 178 hd

354.57

+7.43

National average116 barns · 5,194 hd

344.82

+17.18

This barn, trailing median18 sales

400.29

−38.29

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

18 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	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	949	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	2,657	20
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	950–1000	955	272.50/cwt	272.50–272.50	2,602	15
Steers	Large 1Fleshy	1150–1200	1,164	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	3,143	49
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,006	291.00/cwt	291.00–291.00	2,927	11
Heifers	Large 1Fleshy	1100–1150	1,104	263.00/cwt	263.00–263.00	2,904	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	789	325.00/cwt	325.00–325.00	2,564	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	811	314.50/cwt	314.50–314.50	2,551	42
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	716	337.50/cwt	337.50–337.50	2,417	57
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	777	362.00/cwt	362.00–362.00	2,813	26
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	847	351.75/cwt	351.75–351.75	2,979	206
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,051	301.50/cwt	301.50–301.50	3,169	58
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,038	305.75/cwt	305.75–305.75	3,174	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	971	322.10/cwt	314.00–326.00	3,128	283
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	875	344.92/cwt	339.25–351.75	3,018	590
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	926	342.01/cwt	330.00–344.00	3,167	666
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	960	297.00/cwt	297.00–297.00	2,851	129
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	945	298.30/cwt	297.00–299.50	2,819	187
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	874	309.13/cwt	303.00–315.00	2,702	454

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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