Sale reports / South Dakota / Hub City Livestock Auction / 2021-04-07

Hub City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Apr 7
● Final40 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020
Receipts
6,100 head
▼ 613 vs last sale 6,713▲ 6,100 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 650 to 700 lbs, 801 to 850 lbs, and 951 to 1000 lbs mostly steady, 751 to 800 lbs and 851 to 950 lbs steady to 3.00 higher, 701 to 750 lbs 3.00 to 4.00 lower. Best test on heifers 600 to 650 lbs steady to 3.00 higher, 700 to 750 lbs and 800 to 850 lbs mostly steady. Another large offering this week with several strings of backgrounded cattle as well as many packages and loads of home raised cattle, all met with good demand. More flesh overall on today's offering, most cattle in moderate to heavy flesh. Less light fleshed cattle for grass in today's offering than last week. Similar quality to last week, mostly average to attractive. An active market with many buyers and a few farmer feeders attending the sale today. This area received rain yesterday and today which was a very welcome sight as it has been terribly dry here. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, April 14.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $144.97/cwt on 4,238 head.
Average price
$144.97
4,238 head · 840 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,217
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$477
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Large 1
$47.94/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+0.44
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2490180.3888332
Medium and Large 1831145.461,2093,962
Large 11,027132.441,360244
One grade step is worth $47.94/cwt here — about −$477 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 sale4,238 hd
144.97
—
SD average5 barns · 9,865 hd
144.53
+0.44
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

40 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
SteersLarge 1—1,020133.84/cwt127.25–138.251,365192
SteersLarge 1—1,054127.25/cwt127.25–127.251,34152
HeifersLarge 1—1,036120.65/cwt119.25–122.251,250158
HeifersLarge 1—1,065120.75/cwt120.75–120.751,28649
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—838136.40/cwt136.25–137.001,14361
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—599167.00/cwt167.00–167.001,0008
HeifersMedium and Large 1NHTC—479172.00/cwt172.00–172.0082435
SteersMedium and Large 1—531178.42/cwt172.00–184.50947120
SteersMedium and Large 1—469195.44/cwt189.00–200.2591738
SteersMedium and Large 1—926137.69/cwt132.50–142.701,2751,276
SteersMedium and Large 1—827143.57/cwt139.25–147.501,187611
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement—763155.00/cwt155.00–155.001,18317
SteersMedium and Large 1—677157.85/cwt151.00–165.001,069185
SteersMedium and Large 1—734152.69/cwt147.00–156.501,121226
SteersMedium and Large 1—561179.66/cwt169.00–185.501,00886
SteersMedium and Large 1—622165.22/cwt160.00–166.751,028116
SteersMedium and Large 1—972135.06/cwt128.75–139.501,313243
SteersMedium and Large 1—779149.37/cwt142.25–153.751,164292
HeifersMedium and Large 1—592151.92/cwt147.50–155.0089986
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—673127.00/cwt127.00–127.0085513
SteersMedium and Large 1—877138.11/cwt136.00–144.751,211572
HeifersMedium and Large 1—967120.93/cwt120.75–121.001,16932
HeifersMedium and Large 1—773136.06/cwt133.25–142.501,052103
SteersMedium and Large 1NHTC—659172.18/cwt170.00–172.501,13588
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—444192.00/cwt192.00–192.0085217
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—391196.00/cwt196.00–196.007667
HeifersMedium and Large 1—810131.77/cwt130.00–133.001,06793
HeifersMedium and Large 1—529159.09/cwt154.00–163.0084252
HeifersMedium and Large 1—478158.49/cwt155.50–161.0075824
HeifersMedium and Large 1—895126.50/cwt126.50–126.501,13230
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—662147.50/cwt147.50–147.5097617
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—929129.50/cwt129.50–129.501,20323
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—560140.00/cwt140.00–140.007846
HeifersMedium and Large 1—671149.07/cwt140.00–150.251,000113
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—611136.83/cwt132.00–140.5083616
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy—682132.00/cwt132.00–132.009006
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2—535141.00/cwt141.00–141.007547
SteersMedium and Large 1-2—673142.00/cwt142.00–142.009568
HeifersMedium and Large 1—615152.24/cwt145.00–156.50936205
HeifersMedium and Large 1—723140.30/cwt135.50–141.751,014229

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.