Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-02-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-12

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 550 to 849 lbs unevenly steady except 600 to 649 lbs 5.00 to 7.00 lower. Heifers 500 to 649 lbs 10.00 to 12.00 lower, 650 to 799 lbs mostly steady. Good demand for a today's large offering of loads and packages of mostly home raised cattle. Many attractive quality cattle to choose from, including several loads of reputation replacement heifers which saw very good demand. Similar to last week, flesh varied as there were many light fleshed grass and backgrounding cattle as well as finishing types which had seen some corn. An active market with the normal crowd of buyers and a few less farmer feeders in the seats and, like last week, not quite as bullish as the uncertain futures market of the past week has put some pressure on feeder cattle. Very cold temperatures have arrived along with dangerous windchills, some areas have gotten snow but not in great amounts. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, February 19.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $357.87/cwt on 312 head. That ranks 1 of 25 comparable sales and sits −138.76 against this barn's trailing median of $496.64.

Average price

$357.87

312 head · 565 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,023

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$195

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

$5.43/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.93

vs SD average

+19.20 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	574	358.93	2,061	251
Medium and Large 1-2	528	353.50	1,866	61

One grade step is worth $5.43/cwt here — about $195 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

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 sale312 hd

357.87

—

SD average5 barns · 1,251 hd

358.80

−0.93

National average155 barns · 9,244 hd

338.67

+19.20

This barn, trailing median25 sales

496.64

−138.76

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

37 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	500–550	501	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,503	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	600–650	649	276.00/cwt	276.00–276.00	1,791	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	476	331.74/cwt	326.00–342.50	1,579	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	378	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	1,370	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	531	324.20/cwt	311.00–340.00	1,722	117
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	666	290.70/cwt	283.00–310.00	1,936	480
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	821	279.65/cwt	272.00–285.00	2,296	393
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	480	392.56/cwt	386.00–409.00	1,884	32
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	516	398.97/cwt	382.00–405.00	2,059	43
Steers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	958	268.00/cwt	268.00–268.00	2,567	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	471	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	1,719	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	676	315.15/cwt	305.00–332.00	2,130	485
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	876	273.88/cwt	265.50–278.00	2,399	86
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	528	353.50/cwt	345.00–362.00	1,866	61
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	768	288.60/cwt	277.00–297.00	2,216	419
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	433	406.46/cwt	405.00–407.50	1,760	35
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	910	268.85/cwt	268.25–271.50	2,447	136
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	587	350.98/cwt	344.00–361.00	2,060	203
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	693	286.00/cwt	286.00–286.00	1,982	14
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	700–750	726	2,429.93/head	2,175.00–2,700.00	2,430	124
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	713	304.03/cwt	292.50–308.75	2,168	419
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	700–750	744	284.00/cwt	284.00–284.00	2,113	49
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	650–700	696	298.00/cwt	298.00–298.00	2,074	17
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	550–600	559	337.50/cwt	337.50–337.50	1,887	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	627	319.84/cwt	311.00–337.00	2,005	230
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	750–800	784	2,136.09/head	2,085.00–2,160.00	2,136	52
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	393	422.50/cwt	422.50–422.50	1,660	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	800–850	811	2,475.00/head	2,475.00–2,475.00	2,475	74
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	636	295.71/cwt	285.00–306.00	1,881	136
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	762	262.88/cwt	256.50–270.50	2,003	147
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	720	271.75/cwt	259.00–283.00	1,957	206
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	678	273.00/cwt	273.00–273.00	1,851	17
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	600–650	641	306.00/cwt	306.00–306.00	1,961	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	565	317.96/cwt	300.00–320.00	1,796	145
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	903	243.00/cwt	243.00–243.00	2,194	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	426	346.93/cwt	337.50–357.50	1,478	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	814	253.50/cwt	245.00–257.25	2,063	177

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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