Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-10-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-24

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Different weight classes of yearlings and too light of an offering of calves to compare to last week and develop an accurate price trend, lower undertones noted on both calves and yearlings. Mostly good demand for yearling cattle today with those still coming off grass seeing the best demand. Several loads and quite a few packages, mostly tested open heifers, made up the grass cattle. A handful of loads of feedlot cattle in the offering, these carried quite a bit of flesh and sold accordingly. A light calf offering made up entirely of packages. One consignment of weaned calves, weaned 50 days, with the rest of the calves off the cow. Quality on calves less attractive overall than last week with shot records all over the map, from no shots to full preconditioning. Market activity moderate to active on yearlings, mostly moderate on calves. Another day of large losses on the feeders complex, this has along with recent political activity has taken all the excitement out of the cattle industry. Buyers exhibit much more caution as now the future looks very uncertain. Corn harvest is progressing rapidly. Nest feeder cattle sale is Friday, October 31.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $411.64/cwt on 87 head. That ranks 2 of 16 comparable sales and sits −35.28 against this barn's trailing median of $446.92.

Average price

$411.64

87 head · 526 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,164

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$347

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

$54.96/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−31.21

vs SD average

+20.82 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	531	429.96	2,282	58
Medium and Large 1-2	516	375.00	1,935	29

One grade step is worth $54.96/cwt here — about $347 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

16 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $490.00, low $404.21, median $446.92 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 sale87 hd

411.64

—

SD average9 barns · 6,328 hd

442.85

−31.21

National average186 barns · 24,193 hd

390.82

+20.82

This barn, trailing median16 sales

446.92

−35.28

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

38 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	Large 1Fleshy	1000–1050	1,008	292.26/cwt	291.00–292.50	2,946	122
Steers	Large 1Fleshy	1050–1100	1,099	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	3,297	51
Heifers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,077	305.26/cwt	298.75–316.00	3,288	204
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,020	309.19/cwt	300.00–311.50	3,154	47
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	920	302.25/cwt	302.25–302.25	2,781	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	950–1000	988	309.75/cwt	309.75–309.75	3,060	182
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	346	495.00/cwt	495.00–495.00	1,713	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	745	354.00/cwt	354.00–354.00	2,637	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	905	344.59/cwt	331.00–349.50	3,119	63
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	424	484.94/cwt	472.50–500.00	2,056	80
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	874	338.77/cwt	330.00–345.00	2,961	37
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	355	529.61/cwt	525.00–535.00	1,880	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	616	342.50/cwt	342.50–342.50	2,110	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	463	451.94/cwt	435.00–472.50	2,092	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	734	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	2,496	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	428	492.08/cwt	490.00–500.00	2,106	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	976	328.71/cwt	318.00–330.00	3,208	130
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	306	585.00/cwt	585.00–585.00	1,790	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	645	437.50/cwt	437.50–437.50	2,822	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	777	364.42/cwt	364.00–365.50	2,832	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	484	455.00/cwt	455.00–455.00	2,202	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	516	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,935	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	842	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	3,115	38
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	422	521.99/cwt	515.00–530.00	2,203	39
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	885	365.75/cwt	365.75–365.75	3,237	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	472	492.56/cwt	470.00–501.00	2,325	95
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	720	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	2,664	20
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	568	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	2,386	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	690	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	2,588	60
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	973	343.10/cwt	336.25–350.00	3,338	120
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	383	562.71/cwt	560.00–565.00	2,155	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	521	467.81/cwt	452.50–475.00	2,437	59
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	750–800	781	329.00/cwt	329.00–329.00	2,569	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	569	457.15/cwt	453.00–460.50	2,601	59
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	551	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,480	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	513	412.50/cwt	412.50–412.50	2,116	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	474	414.37/cwt	410.00–420.00	1,964	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	357	530.00/cwt	530.00–530.00	1,892	8

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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