Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-10-17
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-17

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: yearling steers not well compared, best test on yearling heifers 7.00 to 9.00 higher on a narrow comparison. Very good demand for yearlings, both out of yards and off grass. Flesh varied quite a bit, even on grass cattle, from moderate to some heavy flesh at times. Yearling sold in loads and strings with opportunities to buy multiple loads to fill pens which buyers did at times. This was the first spring calf offering, calves met with good to very good demand. Just a light offering of calves, all off the cow, with quite a few loads for such a limited offering. Flesh varied with some calves in light flesh to some that had seen quite a bit of creep feed in moderate plus. Preconditioning varied, but most calves had at least one complete round of shots. An active market on both yearlings and calves with the normal crowd of buyers and a few farmer feeders in the seats determined to own cattle despite a day of large losses on the feeder complex. This was finally a sunny day and many were able to get back in the field to start harvesting again. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, October 24.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $497.58/cwt on 182 head. That ranks 10 of 16 comparable sales and sits +2.10 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$497.58

182 head · 536 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,669

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$103

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

$24.61/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−8.24

vs SD average

+28.54 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	536	499.61	2,677	167
Medium and Large 1-2	542	475.00	2,575	15thin

One grade step is worth $24.61/cwt here — about $103 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 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 sale182 hd

497.58

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SD average6 barns · 6,972 hd

505.82

−8.24

National average176 barns · 29,227 hd

469.04

+28.54

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

+2.10

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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Steers	Large 1	1250–1300	1,283	298.75/cwt	298.75–298.75	3,833	47
Steers	Large 1	1150–1200	1,174	306.00/cwt	306.00–306.00	3,592	50
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,068	328.66/cwt	323.50–336.00	3,510	167
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,034	344.05/cwt	343.25–344.75	3,557	270
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	335	624.00/cwt	624.00–624.00	2,090	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	962	342.00/cwt	342.00–342.00	3,290	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	524	455.83/cwt	435.00–465.00	2,389	78
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	679	435.50/cwt	435.50–435.50	2,957	88
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	921	340.09/cwt	330.50–355.50	3,132	201
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	647	388.00/cwt	388.00–388.00	2,510	91
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	938	367.21/cwt	350.75–372.25	3,444	392
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	440	511.00/cwt	511.00–511.00	2,248	47
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	582	461.94/cwt	456.00–465.00	2,688	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	633	471.34/cwt	457.50–481.50	2,984	300
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	821	384.00/cwt	384.00–384.00	3,153	68
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	970	356.62/cwt	350.75–362.25	3,459	234
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	491	455.05/cwt	442.50–464.00	2,234	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	887	360.72/cwt	341.00–363.50	3,200	55
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	891	370.20/cwt	370.00–370.25	3,298	161
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	720	390.94/cwt	388.00–398.00	2,815	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	600	426.00/cwt	426.00–426.00	2,556	25
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	488	478.83/cwt	460.00–500.00	2,337	25
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	415	558.87/cwt	540.00–561.00	2,319	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	542	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,575	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	790	386.75/cwt	386.75–386.75	3,055	80
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	744	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	2,697	82
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	585	409.56/cwt	385.00–416.00	2,396	158
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	385	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	2,079	3
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	847	344.00/cwt	344.00–344.00	2,914	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	333	642.50/cwt	642.50–642.50	2,140	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	527	506.87/cwt	480.00–514.00	2,671	140

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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