Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-12-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-19

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No yearlings last week for comparison. Best test on steer calves 600 to 649 lbs 5.00 higher on a narrow comparison, heifer calves not well compared. A large yearling offering this week, strings of both steers and heifers available with many opportunities to buy multiple loads to fill pens. Yearlings mostly in moderate to moderate plus flesh with some heavy flesh at times. Good to very good demand for yearlings. A lighter offering of calves with most calves selling in packages, just a couple loads available. A few consignments were weaned but the majority are still coming off the cow. Quality varied, from plain to attractive. Mostly good demand for calves, it was just a bit harder to make loads of calves today. An active market with many buyers trying to tie up loose ends before the end of the year. Temperatures have been very up and down lately making it harder calves, especially newly weaned ones. This is the last feeder cattle sale of 2025, next feeder cattle sale will be Friday, January 9, 2026. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $460.37/cwt on 191 head. That ranks 1 of 16 comparable sales and sits −35.11 against this barn's trailing median of $495.48.

Average price

$460.37

191 head · 551 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,537

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$188

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

$53.38/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−8.73

vs SD average

+16.27 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	547	468.19	2,563	163
Medium and Large 1-2	573	414.81	2,375	28

One grade step is worth $53.38/cwt here — about $188 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 sale191 hd

460.37

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SD average4 barns · 1,653 hd

469.10

−8.73

National average163 barns · 16,063 hd

444.10

+16.27

This barn, trailing median16 sales

495.48

−35.11

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

33 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 1	1100–1150	1,135	285.00/cwt	285.00–285.00	3,235	26
Heifers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,077	295.28/cwt	294.00–296.00	3,180	209
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	488	414.76/cwt	412.50–417.50	2,024	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	528	432.28/cwt	423.00–437.50	2,282	43
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	586	388.93/cwt	387.00–406.00	2,279	65
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,015	297.19/cwt	292.25–302.50	3,016	251
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	995	314.50/cwt	314.50–314.50	3,129	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	467	480.94/cwt	480.00–485.00	2,246	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	438	492.65/cwt	487.50–505.00	2,158	26
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	628	417.08/cwt	400.00–433.00	2,619	121
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	910	351.50/cwt	351.50–351.50	3,199	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	799	367.00/cwt	367.00–367.00	2,932	70
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	580	418.85/cwt	412.50–422.50	2,429	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	642	348.37/cwt	341.00–369.00	2,237	23
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	355	558.02/cwt	555.00–560.00	1,981	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	921	302.00/cwt	293.00–306.75	2,781	217
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,023	315.90/cwt	310.00–329.75	3,232	381
Steers	Large 1	1100–1150	1,118	315.06/cwt	312.00–317.00	3,522	520
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	832	351.00/cwt	351.00–351.00	2,920	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	545	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	2,180	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	445	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,003	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	313	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,502	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	541	377.50/cwt	377.50–377.50	2,042	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	369	524.59/cwt	520.00–530.00	1,936	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	707	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,793	75
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	567	466.68/cwt	447.00–472.50	2,646	104
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	664	389.20/cwt	370.00–400.00	2,584	50
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	615	378.97/cwt	362.50–382.50	2,331	23
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	426	465.63/cwt	450.00–477.50	1,984	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	969	301.00/cwt	301.00–301.00	2,917	129
Steers	Large 1	1150–1200	1,153	311.35/cwt	310.50–311.75	3,590	158
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,064	321.75/cwt	314.50–324.75	3,423	223
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	513	470.86/cwt	450.00–492.50	2,416	59

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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