Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Yearlings not well compared from last Wednesday. Compared to Saturday calf sale: best test on steer calves 550 to 599 lbs and 650 to 699 lbs mostly steady, heifer calves not well compared. Good to very good demand for yearlings today. Several strings of yearlings available along with individual loads and packages, most in moderate to moderate plus flesh with a few in heavy flesh. Moderate to good demand for calves which sold mostly in packages. The majority of the calves still coming off the cow. Slightly less flesh overall than on Saturday as these calves are competing with their cows for feed in the cold weather. Quite a few cancellations due to icy roads and high winds yesterday. An active market on yearlings, moderate to active on calves, a lighter attendance at the sale today mostly due to weather. Another round of snow expected for tomorrow with a winter weather advisory in effect. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, December 17, this will be the last feeder cattle sale of 2025.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $445.28/cwt on 388 head. That ranks 1 of 25 comparable sales and sits −51.35 against this barn's trailing median of $496.64.

Average price

$445.28

388 head · 563 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,506

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$242

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

$27.24/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−6.36

vs SD average

+14.65 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	566	449.56	2,545	327
Medium and Large 1-2	545	422.32	2,302	61

One grade step is worth $27.24/cwt here — about $242 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 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 sale388 hd

445.28

—

SD average7 barns · 4,094 hd

451.64

−6.36

National average179 barns · 20,601 hd

430.63

+14.65

This barn, trailing median25 sales

496.64

−51.35

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

33 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	Large 1Fleshy	1000–1050	1,035	286.00/cwt	286.00–286.00	2,960	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	915	283.00/cwt	283.00–283.00	2,589	38
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,001	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	3,123	116
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	926	311.24/cwt	297.58–325.00	2,882	234
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	573	386.59/cwt	382.00–399.00	2,215	68
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	525	405.49/cwt	387.00–421.00	2,129	74
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	765	368.00/cwt	368.00–368.00	2,815	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	436	474.87/cwt	470.00–480.00	2,070	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	568	389.68/cwt	385.50–399.00	2,213	16
Steers	Large 1	1100–1150	1,139	302.75/cwt	302.75–302.75	3,448	151
Steers	Large 1	1050–1100	1,087	308.83/cwt	304.25–310.25	3,357	320
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	667	402.19/cwt	397.00–409.00	2,683	108
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	575	444.47/cwt	439.50–451.00	2,556	281
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	692	354.50/cwt	354.50–354.50	2,453	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	900–950	939	345.02/cwt	333.00–348.00	3,240	44
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	464	410.89/cwt	390.00–430.00	1,907	47
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	615	359.34/cwt	348.00–368.00	2,210	57
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	556	354.00/cwt	354.00–354.00	1,968	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	615	418.40/cwt	412.50–420.00	2,573	42
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	537	433.93/cwt	420.00–440.00	2,330	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	488	485.68/cwt	477.50–492.00	2,370	102
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	381	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,829	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	859	323.01/cwt	321.00–325.00	2,775	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	702	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,352	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	511	480.68/cwt	467.00–492.50	2,456	46
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	424	503.98/cwt	495.00–522.50	2,137	58
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	310	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,240	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	440	396.83/cwt	387.50–400.00	1,746	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	383	447.50/cwt	447.50–447.50	1,714	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	491	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,866	17
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	521	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,824	29
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	950–1000	989	303.11/cwt	298.00–312.00	2,998	234
Steers	Large 1	1150–1200	1,164	302.75/cwt	302.75–302.75	3,524	50

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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