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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2024-04-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-04-18

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Apr 18

● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Mar 28Apr 18Apr 25 →

Receipts

1,656 head

▲ 112 vs last sale 1,544▲ 164 vs year ago 1,492 · +11.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in recent weeks so an accurate price trend can not be established. Good to very good demand for today's offering featuring a hand full of loads and many packages, including fall calves. Lots of light calves with the potential to go to grass and these type of cattle continue to be very sought after as grass time is only a few weeks away. Quality varied quite a bit today, especially on these light cattle. Flesh condition mostly moderate to moderate plus overall. A few consignments of replacement heifers available but not all going back to the country. An active market with quite a few buyers and some farmer feeders attending the sale. Watch local listings for the next feeder cattle sale.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $292.93/cwt on 163 head. That ranks 1 of 7 comparable sales and sits −140.38 against this barn's trailing median of $433.30.

Average price

$292.93

163 head · 550 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,612

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$203

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

$22.62/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−4.51

vs SD average

+28.41 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	551	293.62	1,618	158
Medium and Large 1-2	522	271.00	1,415	5thin

One grade step is worth $22.62/cwt here — about $203 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.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale163 hd

292.93

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SD average7 barns · 1,050 hd

297.44

−4.51

National average180 barns · 13,997 hd

264.52

+28.41

This barn, trailing median7 sales

433.30

−140.38

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

7 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $483.77, low $421.13, median $433.30 across 7 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot, as filed

28 lots · USDA AMS · Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, SD

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers12 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	374	397.50/cwt	397.50–397.50	1,487	13
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	419	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	1,519	15
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	467	387.50/cwt	372.00–393.00	1,810	45
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	485	355.30/cwt	350.00–361.00	1,723	19
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	521	352.54/cwt	343.00–367.00	1,837	79
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	578	313.10/cwt	308.00–317.50	1,810	19
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	580	340.42/cwt	329.00–345.00	1,974	143
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	629	303.67/cwt	298.00–308.00	1,910	65
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	684	307.72/cwt	307.00–311.50	2,105	132
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	690	286.00/cwt	286.00–286.00	1,973	42
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	756	256.00/cwt	256.00–256.00	1,935	19
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	764	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	2,025	7
Feeder Cattle · Heifers16 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	416	325.00/cwt	325.00–325.00	1,352	7
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	479	306.48/cwt	293.00–313.00	1,468	64
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	522	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,415	5
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	523	304.38/cwt	300.00–312.00	1,592	85
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	582	285.12/cwt	276.00–290.00	1,659	57
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	590	266.75/cwt	264.00–268.00	1,574	16
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	614	284.52/cwt	273.00–288.00	1,747	17
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	654	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,642	7
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	664	269.74/cwt	260.00–275.00	1,791	114
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	689	229.00/cwt	229.00–229.00	1,578	60
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	726	232.00/cwt	232.00–232.00	1,684	4
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	743	247.37/cwt	244.00–250.00	1,838	142
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Replacement	777	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	1,849	15
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	785	228.00/cwt	228.00–228.00	1,790	10
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	803	213.75/cwt	213.75–213.75	1,716	71
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1Replacement	868	235.50/cwt	235.50–235.50	2,044	68

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.

South Dakota feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, SD

Thu Apr 18, 2024

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Sioux Falls, SD (LS-SF)

Receipts 1,656Last week 1,544Year ago 1,492

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
16	550–600	590	264.00–268.00	266.75
4	700–750	726	232.00	232.00
71	800–850	803	213.75	213.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	400–450	416	325.00	325.00
64	450–500	479	293.00–313.00	306.48
85	500–550	523	300.00–312.00	304.38
57	550–600	582	276.00–290.00	285.12
17	600–650	614	273.00–288.00	284.52
114	650–700	664	260.00–275.00	269.74
142	700–750	743	244.00–250.00	247.37
10	750–800	785	228.00	228.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	500–550	522	271.00	271.00
7	650–700	654	251.00	251.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
15	750–800	777	238.00	238.00
68	850–900	868	235.50	235.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
60	650–700	689	229.00	229.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
19	750–800	756	256.00	256.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
13	350–400	374	397.50	397.50
15	400–450	419	362.50	362.50
45	450–500	467	372.00–393.00	387.50
79	500–550	521	343.00–367.00	352.54
143	550–600	580	329.00–345.00	340.42
65	600–650	629	298.00–308.00	303.67
132	650–700	684	307.00–311.50	307.72
7	750–800	764	265.00	265.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
19	450–500	485	350.00–361.00	355.30
19	550–600	578	308.00–317.50	313.10
42	650–700	690	286.00	286.00

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.