Sale reports / South Dakota / Mitchell Livestock Auction / 2020-06-25

Mitchell Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Mitchell, South Dakota · Thu, Jun 25
● Final35 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2022
Receipts
3,552 head
2,079 vs last sale 1,473 567 vs year ago 2,985 · +19.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week's much lighter offering: Feeder steers and heifers steady to firm. Good to very good demand for this large summertime offering of backgrounded yearling steers and heifers. Many long strings of light to moderate fleshed yearlings were offered in full loads and multiple load lots. The market was active as many farmer feeders and order buyers were ready to buy these yearlings while they had the chance. The cash fed cattle market, and the outlook that the CME Live Cattle contracts are predicting are hanging heavily over the heads of cattle feeders but there is still a lot of interest in feeding yearlings. No sale next week, next feeder cattle sale will be July 9, 2020 expecting 5,000 feeder cattle.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $119.91/cwt on 2,036 head.
Average price
$119.91
2,036 head · 820 lb average
Value per head Derived
$983
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$290
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Large 1
$43.95/cwt at this weight
vs the market
3.60
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2528145.5976996
Medium and Large 1811120.579781,742
Large 11,042101.641,059198
One grade step is worth $43.95/cwt here — about −$290 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale2,036 hd
119.91
SD average5 barns · 4,796 hd
123.51
−3.60
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

35 lots · USDA AMS · Mitchell Livestock Auction - Mitchell, SD
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersLarge 1Fleshy1,07697.87/cwt97.75–98.001,05348
SteersLarge 1Fleshy1,136103.00/cwt103.00–103.001,1708
HeifersLarge 11,031102.85/cwt102.85–102.851,060150
HeifersMedium and Large 1964103.88/cwt103.50–104.001,00130
HeifersMedium and Large 1867114.34/cwt112.50–116.0099134
HeifersMedium and Large 1740124.98/cwt121.00–125.25925147
HeifersMedium and Large 1646134.75/cwt132.50–140.00870217
HeifersMedium and Large 1917110.94/cwt105.50–112.751,017430
SteersMedium and Large 1-2630148.50/cwt147.50–149.0093618
SteersMedium and Large 1-2771136.48/cwt129.00–139.251,05223
SteersMedium and Large 1674146.58/cwt146.00–147.0098822
SteersMedium and Large 1925121.86/cwt120.25–123.101,127165
SteersMedium and Large 1972118.81/cwt115.00–119.751,155238
SteersLarge 11,053109.00/cwt109.00–109.001,1489
SteersMedium and Large 1868127.93/cwt125.00–130.001,110245
SteersMedium and Large 1-2737138.00/cwt138.00–138.001,0177
SteersMedium and Large 1-2922109.50/cwt109.50–109.501,01011
SteersLarge 11,031113.91/cwt113.50–114.501,174226
SteersMedium and Large 1534165.00/cwt165.00–165.008816
SteersMedium and Large 1754139.50/cwt139.50–139.501,05216
SteersMedium and Large 1613149.09/cwt147.50–151.5091435
SteersMedium and Large 1726144.81/cwt143.00–145.501,05147
SteersMedium and Large 1838132.70/cwt131.25–133.751,112149
HeifersMedium and Large 1827119.83/cwt117.50–122.50991544
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2539139.00/cwt139.00–139.007496
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2589139.00/cwt139.00–139.008198
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2638134.00/cwt134.00–134.008559
HeifersMedium and Large 1768125.08/cwt117.00–128.75961340
SteersLarge 11,17899.61/cwt99.00–100.751,17351
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed552143.00/cwt143.00–143.0078926
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed502147.50/cwt147.50–147.5074035
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed427162.00/cwt162.00–162.0069212
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed427177.00/cwt177.00–177.0075612
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed528160.93/cwt160.00–161.5085060
SteersLarge 1Thin Fleshed1,146111.00/cwt111.00–111.001,2727

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.