Sale reports / South Dakota / Hub City Livestock Auction / 2020-10-07

Hub City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Oct 7
● Final27 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020
Receipts
4,190 head
149 vs last sale 4,339 2,233 vs year ago 6,423 · 34.8%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 850 to 950 lbs mostly steady, 951 to 1050 lbs 1.00 to 3.00 lower. Best test on heifers 800 to 850 lbs and 951 to 1000 lbs steady to 2.00 lower, 901 to 950 lbs mostly steady. Good to very good demand for another large yearling offering this week. Several long strings of both steers and spayed heifers as well as many loads and packages made up the offering. Quality similar to last week with many attractive cattle to choose from. Flesh mostly light to moderate today with the entire yearling offering coming off grass. Just a couple consignments of spring calves offered today, a load of steers sold with good demand. An active market for this offering with slightly less interest this week in buying multiple loads when offered. Bean harvest is almost completed and most producers have been able to get into corn right away as the warm, dry fall continues. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, October 14, special Anniversary Sale featuring both yearlings and calves.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $135.27/cwt on 2,061 head.
Average price
$135.27
2,061 head · 898 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,215
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$88
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1
$10.72/cwt at this weight
vs the market
1.39
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1895135.901,2161,937
Medium and Large 1-2804125.761,01145
Large 11,042125.181,30479
One grade step is worth $10.72/cwt here — about −$88 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale2,061 hd
135.27
SD average8 barns · 7,967 hd
136.65
−1.39
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

27 lots · USDA AMS · Hub City Livestock Auction - Aberdeen, SD
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersLarge 11,140119.50/cwt119.50–119.501,3625
HeifersLarge 11,099122.50/cwt122.50–122.501,34614
HeifersLarge 11,020126.28/cwt122.50–127.001,28860
SteersLarge 11,066137.18/cwt135.85–137.851,462169
SteersLarge 11,009137.67/cwt133.50–138.751,389336
HeifersMedium and Large 1722140.00/cwt140.00–140.001,0115
SteersMedium and Large 1859147.67/cwt142.50–152.251,268147
SteersMedium and Large 1815153.37/cwt153.00–154.001,25019
HeifersMedium and Large 1914134.75/cwt130.50–136.601,232563
HeifersMedium and Large 1685139.82/cwt138.00–140.0095856
HeifersMedium and Large 1779139.92/cwt132.50–142.751,09072
SteersMedium and Large 1765147.87/cwt143.00–150.001,13150
SteersMedium and Large 1-2922132.00/cwt132.00–132.001,21726
SteersMedium and Large 1593168.25/cwt168.25–168.2599897
HeifersMedium and Large 1830141.42/cwt138.00–141.701,174265
HeifersMedium and Large 1418149.50/cwt149.50–149.506256
HeifersMedium and Large 1562137.00/cwt137.00–137.007707
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2872126.81/cwt126.50–127.001,10618
SteersMedium and Large 1670150.82/cwt150.00–151.501,01022
SteersMedium and Large 1989138.50/cwt135.25–139.751,370343
SteersMedium and Large 1932142.85/cwt135.00–145.001,331592
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2912123.50/cwt123.50–123.501,12613
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2615126.50/cwt126.50–126.5077814
HeifersMedium and Large 1631140.17/cwt137.00–141.5088413
HeifersMedium and Large 1888136.76/cwt131.00–138.751,214456
HeifersMedium and Large 1974132.09/cwt127.00–134.001,287494
SteersMedium and Large 1712151.00/cwt151.00–151.001,0755

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.