Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-01-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-01-07

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Today was a special Saturday calf sale. Compared to Wednesday: best test on steers 600 to 800 lbs mostly steady except 650 to 700 lbs not well compared. Best test on heifers 550 to 700 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 5.00 higher on 600 to 700 lbs. Good to very good demand for this large offering featuring many packages and loads, including several outfits selling multiple loads of same weight home raised calves. The offering included quite a few colored cattle, overall quality was mostly average to attractive. Flesh varied, more flesh overall than seen on Wednesday. A couple of consignments of unweaned calves, these see less demand. An active market with good attendance of both buyers and farmer feeders for an off sale day. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, January 11.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb steers averaged $192.96/cwt on 3,272 head.

Average price

$192.96

3,272 head · 716 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,382

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$604

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

$37.06/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.72

vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1-2	538	202.91	1,092	176
Medium and Large 1	704	194.42	1,368	2,876
Large 1	1,023	165.85	1,696	220

One grade step is worth $37.06/cwt here — about −$604 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 sale3,272 hd

192.96

—

SD average6 barns · 16,290 hd

193.68

−0.72

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

41 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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	902	150.00/cwt	150.00–150.00	1,353	32
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	477	189.76/cwt	182.00–201.00	905	44
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	510	175.42/cwt	174.00–180.50	895	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	587	174.00/cwt	174.00–174.00	1,021	26
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	718	188.11/cwt	180.00–198.00	1,351	464
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	910	164.22/cwt	156.50–169.00	1,494	60
Steers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	—	622	198.25/cwt	198.25–198.25	1,233	44
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	876	173.95/cwt	172.00–174.75	1,524	145
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	481	209.41/cwt	203.00–213.00	1,007	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	764	150.00/cwt	150.00–150.00	1,146	28
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	728	164.00/cwt	164.00–164.00	1,194	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	992	168.00/cwt	168.00–168.00	1,667	100
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	573	220.96/cwt	210.50–227.25	1,266	241
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	516	222.04/cwt	211.00–229.00	1,146	249
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	618	209.16/cwt	201.50–211.75	1,293	259
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	386	225.22/cwt	223.00–231.00	869	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	463	235.97/cwt	235.00–239.00	1,093	50
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	579	201.57/cwt	200.50–202.50	1,167	51
Steers	Large 1	—	1,062	165.00/cwt	165.00–165.00	1,752	53
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	511	205.36/cwt	205.00–207.00	1,049	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	780	181.99/cwt	173.00–186.50	1,420	430
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	837	167.50/cwt	167.50–167.50	1,402	63
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	634	186.85/cwt	183.00–190.50	1,185	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	631	196.50/cwt	196.50–196.50	1,240	14
Steers	Large 1	—	1,010	166.12/cwt	162.00–168.00	1,678	167
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	684	195.57/cwt	187.00–206.00	1,338	607
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	415	214.00/cwt	214.00–214.00	888	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	671	172.73/cwt	169.00–181.00	1,159	180
Steers	Medium and Large 1	—	831	176.30/cwt	175.75–178.00	1,465	94
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	822	158.91/cwt	157.50–160.00	1,306	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	—	597	166.50/cwt	166.50–166.50	994	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	523	210.00/cwt	210.00–210.00	1,098	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	681	181.22/cwt	181.00–181.50	1,234	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	767	165.42/cwt	164.00–176.50	1,269	283
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	—	896	165.50/cwt	165.50–165.50	1,483	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	—	364	186.00/cwt	186.00–186.00	677	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	437	196.11/cwt	194.00–196.50	857	98
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	529	195.27/cwt	184.00–199.75	1,033	166
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	628	177.48/cwt	170.00–186.25	1,115	182
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	570	189.19/cwt	181.00–196.50	1,078	135
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	—	892	161.32/cwt	158.50–163.25	1,439	182

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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