Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-06-05
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-06-05

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 1000 to 1049 lbs steady to 2.00 higher. Best test on heifers 800 to 849 lbs steady, other weight classes of steers and heifers not well compared. Good to very good demand for loads and strings in today's offering, moderate to good demand for packages depending on quality which varied quite a bit. Quality on strings and loads mostly average to attractive. Quite a few consignments of home raised fall calves, including several load lots. Flesh varied but less flesh overall than last week. An active market seen for this offering. Buyers took advantage of strings with multiple loads of the same weight to fill pens, numbers of cattle available lessen every week and they are determined to have cattle on hand for fall marketing. A typical South Dakota summer, some areas are seeing quite a bit of rain making field work difficult, other areas are wrapping up planting and moving on to first cut alfalfa. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, June 12.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $332.00/cwt on 7 head. That ranks 1 of 25 comparable sales and sits −164.64 against this barn's trailing median of $496.64.

Average price

$332.00

7 head · 521 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,730

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−18.03

vs SD average

+22.84 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	521	332.00	1,730	7thin

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

25 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $523.56, low $466.41, median $496.64 across 25 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 sale7 hd

332.00

—

SD average3 barns · 85 hd

350.03

−18.03

National average164 barns · 13,053 hd

309.16

+22.84

This barn, trailing median25 sales

496.64

−164.64

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

31 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
Steers	Large 1	1200–1250	1,218	206.25/cwt	206.25–206.25	2,512	46
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,072	221.64/cwt	215.00–229.00	2,376	255
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,038	229.23/cwt	223.00–237.00	2,379	492
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	500–550	521	332.00/cwt	332.00–332.00	1,730	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	450–500	454	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,544	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	700–750	721	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	1,911	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	408	355.00/cwt	355.00–355.00	1,448	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	463	327.50/cwt	327.50–327.50	1,516	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	689	294.06/cwt	284.00–295.00	2,026	79
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	779	249.85/cwt	246.00–256.50	1,946	90
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	828	255.75/cwt	254.50–256.50	2,118	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	641	279.58/cwt	264.00–280.50	1,792	90
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	969	233.89/cwt	229.75–239.25	2,266	225
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	874	232.64/cwt	230.50–233.75	2,033	94
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	567	306.44/cwt	294.00–313.00	1,738	86
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	924	232.22/cwt	226.00–233.50	2,146	455
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	933	246.37/cwt	245.50–247.25	2,299	130
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	812	244.75/cwt	240.50–246.50	1,987	189
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	683	243.00/cwt	243.00–243.00	1,660	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	647	293.25/cwt	273.00–299.00	1,897	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	677	264.88/cwt	264.00–266.50	1,793	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	607	327.64/cwt	307.50–328.50	1,989	103
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	419	377.50/cwt	377.50–377.50	1,582	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	878	241.02/cwt	233.00–247.50	2,116	42
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	583	260.34/cwt	251.00–270.00	1,518	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	502	307.00/cwt	307.00–307.00	1,541	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	964	229.00/cwt	229.00–229.00	2,208	58
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	711	270.90/cwt	268.00–273.50	1,926	93
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	750–800	787	253.01/cwt	249.00–256.00	1,991	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	720	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,886	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	800–850	846	227.00/cwt	227.00–227.00	1,920	8

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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