Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2022-10-25

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Tue, Oct 25
● Final20 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2010
Receipts
1,996 head
2,132 vs last sale 4,128 2,132 vs year ago 4,128 · 51.6%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to Thursday: best test on steers 500 to 550 lbs 4.00 to 6.00 lower, 551 to 600 lbs mostly steady. Most of today's heifers sold as replacements so an accurate price trend could not be established. Today was a special Tuesday feeder cattle sale featuring Red Angus cattle. Moderate to good demand for steers, very good demand for heifers. Most of today's cattle had full preconditioning and all but one consignment came off the cow. Flesh condition mostly light to moderate and quality mostly average to attractive. An active market with bull breeders, producers, and some order buyers all competing for heifers suitable for replacements. Moderate market activity on steers and feeding type heifers with many of the normal buyers not attending the sale today. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 27, expecting 7000 calves.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $212.57/cwt on 1,140 head.
Average price
$212.57
1,140 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,166
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$246
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Medium and Large 1
$10.45/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+4.86
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2416222.7392631
Medium and Large 1552212.291,1731,109
One grade step is worth $10.45/cwt here — about −$246 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 sale1,140 hd
212.57
SD average11 barns · 27,105 hd
207.71
+4.86
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

20 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
HeifersMedium and Large 1524194.42/cwt191.00–203.001,01937
HeifersMedium and Large 1372213.35/cwt202.00–216.0079442
HeifersMedium and Large 1459202.97/cwt198.00–205.0093249
HeifersMedium and Large 1436206.12/cwt203.00–209.0089971
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement617229.92/cwt217.00–235.001,41956
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement571228.87/cwt225.00–234.001,307156
SteersMedium and Large 1675190.50/cwt190.50–190.501,28639
SteersMedium and Large 1-2665177.00/cwt177.00–177.001,1775
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement462221.23/cwt221.00–221.501,02277
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2470193.00/cwt193.00–193.009075
SteersMedium and Large 1465227.45/cwt225.00–230.501,05898
SteersMedium and Large 1625205.06/cwt204.00–206.001,282186
SteersMedium and Large 1522214.36/cwt205.00–226.001,119372
SteersMedium and Large 1725178.00/cwt178.00–178.001,29124
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement424220.70/cwt220.00–221.0093619
SteersMedium and Large 1577212.10/cwt203.00–222.001,224308
SteersMedium and Large 1-2368231.53/cwt227.00–234.0085226
SteersMedium and Large 1429222.25/cwt219.00–227.0095382
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2565171.00/cwt171.00–171.0096614
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement526226.94/cwt209.00–233.001,194252

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.