Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2020-11-10

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Tue, Nov 10
● Final21 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2010
Receipts
3,791 head
1,481 vs last sale 2,310 3,791 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to Thursday: steer calves 450 to 650 lbs mostly steady with instances 3.00 higher on 500 to 550 lbs and 600 to 650 lbs. Heifers 450 to 600 lbs steady to 3.00 lower. Good demand for today's offering of strings, loads, and packages. Several loads and part loads of replacement quality heifers from reputation outfits met with very good demand. Quality similar to Thursday with many attractive cattle to choose from. Flesh mostly light to moderate again today and calves were fully preconditioned. An active market with both buyers and some farmers in the seats today, farmers mostly interested in replacement heifers. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, November 12, expecting 7,000 head.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $164.43/cwt on 2,398 head.
Average price
$164.43
2,398 head · 552 lb average
Value per head Derived
$908
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$117
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$16.47/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+4.28
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1552164.479092,393
Medium and Large 1-2535148.007925thin
One grade step is worth $16.47/cwt here — about $117 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 sale2,398 hd
164.43
SD average12 barns · 36,464 hd
160.16
+4.28
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

21 lots · USDA AMS · Mobridge Calf Auction (Tue-Seasonal) - Mobridge, SD
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
SteersMedium and Large 1-2535148.00/cwt148.00–148.007925
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement475172.00/cwt172.00–172.00817110
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement600164.50/cwt164.50–164.50987104
SteersMedium and Large 1571161.73/cwt153.75–165.50923672
SteersMedium and Large 1333182.04/cwt179.00–183.0060620
HeifersMedium and Large 1477154.76/cwt143.00–157.00738172
SteersMedium and Large 1516167.78/cwt159.00–175.50866508
SteersMedium and Large 1432175.35/cwt170.00–182.5075842
HeifersMedium and Large 1Natural555152.25/cwt152.25–152.2584530
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement577166.14/cwt150.00–173.00959264
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement508160.61/cwt159.00–162.00816140
SteersMedium and Large 1481172.77/cwt164.00–178.00831330
SteersMedium and Large 1656149.21/cwt145.00–154.0097996
SteersMedium and Large 1624158.83/cwt152.00–165.25991629
SteersMedium and Large 1388181.35/cwt174.00–186.0070496
HeifersMedium and Large 1523146.46/cwt138.00–150.50766155
HeifersMedium and Large 1576140.05/cwt135.75–145.00807135
HeifersMedium and Large 1411156.02/cwt149.00–158.0064178
HeifersMedium and Large 1618141.12/cwt133.00–146.0087257
HeifersMedium and Large 1369153.13/cwt149.00–155.0056554
HeifersMedium and Large 1330150.69/cwt147.00–157.0049718

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.