Sale reports / South Dakota / Hub City Livestock Auction / 2025-07-30

Hub City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Jul 30
● Final19 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020
Receipts
2,351 head
201 vs last sale 2,150 2,351 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No sale last week: compared to two weeks ago: best test on steers 1000 to 1099 lbs 10.00 higher. Heifers not well compared. Very good demand for today's offering. A few packages offered, including a few tested open heifers, with the rest of the offering selling in loads and strings. A wide range in flesh condition today as there were quite a few warmed up yard cattle as well as some of the first cattle coming off grass, flesh condition from light to heavy. Quality on loads and strings mostly attractive, more plain to average cattle in packages. An active market with plenty of eager bidders. A huge amount of optimism in the industry right now with all signs pointing to an outstanding fall and winter marketing season. Quite a bit of precipitation last week has most areas sitting well for moisture and crops and pastures look very good, however there are still pastures with dry dugouts and waterholes. Watch local listings for the next feeder cattle sale.

Weight class

Steers · summary 600–700 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
600–700 lb steers averaged $327.00/cwt on 10 head. That ranks 1 of 27 comparable sales and sits 112.21 against this barn's trailing median of $439.21.
Average price
$327.00
10 head · 621 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,031
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
42.64
vs SD average
32.30 vs national

What quality paid 600–700 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2621327.002,03110thin
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 600–700 lb

27 sales
479454430405median 439.2112/1702/0403/2505/1307/22
Steers 600–700 lb: high $464.54, low $419.25, median $439.21 across 27 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 600–700 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale10 hd
327.00
SD average3 barns · 408 hd
369.64
−42.64
National average135 barns · 4,840 hd
359.30
−32.30
This barn, trailing median27 sales
439.21
−112.21
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

19 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
HeifersLarge 1Fleshy1050–11001,097240.50/cwt240.50–240.502,63848
HeifersLarge 1Fleshy1000–10501,040266.50/cwt266.50–266.502,77252
HeifersLarge 11000–10501,026296.00/cwt296.00–296.003,03734
HeifersLarge 11200–12501,206240.50/cwt240.50–240.502,90046
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650624321.00/cwt321.00–321.002,00311
HeifersMedium and Large 1700–750745335.50/cwt335.50–335.502,49942
SteersMedium and Large 1800–850827350.00/cwt350.00–350.002,89545
HeifersLarge 11050–11001,052263.98/cwt261.50–266.502,777105
SteersMedium and Large 1900–950937343.83/cwt343.75–344.003,222180
HeifersMedium and Large 1750–800773318.00/cwt318.00–318.002,45838
HeifersLarge 11150–12001,185240.96/cwt240.50–242.002,85562
SteersMedium and Large 1950–1000987320.51/cwt314.75–321.003,163261
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700698342.00/cwt342.00–342.002,3878
SteersLarge 11050–11001,070303.65/cwt301.25–310.003,249426
HeifersMedium and Large 1950–1000952322.25/cwt322.25–322.253,06859
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650621327.00/cwt327.00–327.002,03110
HeifersMedium and Large 1900–950945321.67/cwt304.00–322.253,040185
SteersLarge 11100–11501,107310.00/cwt310.00–310.003,432100
SteersLarge 11000–10501,016315.91/cwt307.00–320.503,210418

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.