Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-11-06
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-06

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steer calves 500 to 649 lbs 2.00 to 4.00 lower, yearling steers 900 to 999 lbs steady to 3.00 higher. Heifer calves 450 to 499 lbs and 550 to 599 lbs unevenly steady, yearling heifers not well compared. Good to very good demand for both yearlings and calves. Still a few loads and strings of yearlings coming off grass which buyers are eager to purchase to fill pens. Yearlings from lots in varied flesh today, but most in moderate to moderate plus. A nice calf offering with quite a few loads of calves, as well as many packages. A few weaned consignments, but most calves were off the cow and preconditioned, consignments without good shots sold at the bottom of the price spread. Overall more flesh than seen last week with more calves which had seen some creep feed included in today's offering. An active market on both yearlings and calves, most of the interest in calves was from farmer feeders. Rain during the weekend has settled some of the dust and conditions the last couple days for this area have been very foggy. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, November 13.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $310.92/cwt on 355 head. That ranks 1 of 25 comparable sales and sits −185.72 against this barn's trailing median of $496.64.

Average price

$310.92

355 head · 545 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,696

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−7.26

vs SD average

+9.07 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	545	310.92	1,696	355

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 sale355 hd

310.92

—

SD average9 barns · 8,396 hd

318.18

−7.26

National average187 barns · 26,509 hd

301.85

+9.07

This barn, trailing median25 sales

496.64

−185.72

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

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
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	946	221.50/cwt	221.50–221.50	2,095	24
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,003	219.77/cwt	218.00–220.00	2,204	62
Heifers	Large 1	1150–1200	1,160	205.31/cwt	204.50–208.50	2,382	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	424	302.11/cwt	301.00–303.00	1,281	26
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	571	271.33/cwt	261.00–282.50	1,549	179
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	541	281.71/cwt	275.00–293.00	1,524	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	677	283.01/cwt	277.00–288.00	1,916	167
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	443	360.74/cwt	356.00–373.00	1,598	36
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	408	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	1,408	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	950–1000	964	236.00/cwt	236.00–236.00	2,275	65
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	571	304.94/cwt	291.50–312.50	1,741	122
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	626	293.91/cwt	284.50–305.00	1,840	755
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	713	275.93/cwt	270.00–277.25	1,967	110
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	882	254.15/cwt	253.00–254.50	2,242	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	532	314.05/cwt	298.50–330.00	1,671	233
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	469	325.61/cwt	322.00–339.00	1,527	79
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	778	252.50/cwt	252.50–252.50	1,964	86
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	900–950	918	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	2,249	28
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	371	380.18/cwt	367.50–388.00	1,410	45
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	681	241.05/cwt	240.00–242.00	1,642	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	974	247.79/cwt	240.00–261.75	2,413	348
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	450–500	453	339.00/cwt	339.00–339.00	1,536	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	324	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,069	8
Steers	Large 1	1100–1150	1,123	224.25/cwt	224.25–224.25	2,518	46
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,006	252.64/cwt	240.00–252.75	2,542	116
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	484	293.47/cwt	287.00–309.00	1,420	150
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	923	258.68/cwt	251.50–263.75	2,388	509
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	985	234.50/cwt	234.50–234.50	2,310	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	886	253.74/cwt	245.00–254.00	2,248	178
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	384	307.69/cwt	301.00–320.00	1,182	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	624	268.30/cwt	265.00–271.50	1,674	222

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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