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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2024-10-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-10

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 10

● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Oct 3Oct 10Oct 17 →

Receipts

3,451 head

▲ 2,445 vs last sale 1,006▼ 124 vs year ago 3,575 · −3.5%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Mostly yearling steers this week and heifers last week so an accurate price trend can not be established on yearling cattle. Too few calves last week to develop an accurate price trend on calves, higher undertones noted on both steer and heifer calves. Good to very good demand for yearlings. A string of black steers and a handful of loads of steers as well as packages of heifers, mostly tested opens, made up the yearling offering. Yearlings came off grass in mostly moderate flesh with some fill seen at times. Mostly good demand for calves with load lots seeing the best demand. Wide price spreads in calves due to hide color and lack of complete vaccinations. All calves were off the cow and flesh was mostly light to moderate. Varied quality on calves, from plain to attractive. An active market with both buyers and some farmer feeders in the seats. The weather has remained warm and very dry. Harvest is progressing quickly with most of the beans off and farmers heavily into corn. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 17.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $309.30/cwt on 557 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −158.90 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$309.30

557 head · 541 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,672

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$153

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

$39.32/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−4.22

vs SD average

+14.99 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	539	311.56	1,681	525
Medium and Large 1-2	561	272.24	1,527	32

One grade step is worth $39.32/cwt here — about $153 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 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 sale557 hd

309.30

—

SD average6 barns · 2,890 hd

313.51

−4.22

National average177 barns · 23,944 hd

294.31

+14.99

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−158.90

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

8 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $510.18, low $457.44, median $468.20 across 8 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

31 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 · Steers18 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	325	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	1,349	11
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	373	394.81/cwt	385.00–399.00	1,473	39
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	380	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	1,311	6
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	357.30/cwt	342.50–378.00	1,501	109
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	444	320.37/cwt	296.00–332.50	1,422	64
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	470	336.96/cwt	320.00–352.00	1,584	243
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	483	305.88/cwt	292.00–317.50	1,477	45
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	523	320.17/cwt	299.00–330.00	1,674	292
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	560	300.76/cwt	285.00–309.00	1,684	233
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	561	272.24/cwt	269.00–275.00	1,527	32
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	619	298.06/cwt	286.00–304.25	1,845	135
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	658	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,836	91
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	700	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,890	27
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	776	236.00/cwt	236.00–236.00	1,831	12
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	811	272.55/cwt	272.25–272.75	2,210	349
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	896	250.24/cwt	247.00–253.50	2,242	120
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	919	252.78/cwt	250.75–253.50	2,323	372
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,020	229.75/cwt	229.00–230.50	2,343	119
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	332	375.76/cwt	365.00–389.00	1,248	32
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	345	325.37/cwt	317.00–339.00	1,123	26
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	386	326.21/cwt	310.00–342.50	1,259	16
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	420	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,260	11
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	428	316.71/cwt	304.50–339.00	1,356	258
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	475	292.58/cwt	272.50–308.00	1,390	154
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	277.17/cwt	263.00–292.00	1,447	290
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	568	273.72/cwt	258.00–276.00	1,555	62
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	635	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,664	91
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	783	248.00/cwt	248.00–248.00	1,942	41
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	885	225.50/cwt	225.50–225.50	1,996	11
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	955	222.82/cwt	221.00–224.50	2,128	27
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,003	221.00/cwt	221.00–221.00	2,217	19

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 Oct 10, 2024

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

Receipts 3,451Last week 1,006Year ago 3,575

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	1000–1050	1,003	221.00	221.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
32	300–350	332	365.00–389.00	375.76
16	350–400	386	310.00–342.50	326.21
258	400–450	428	304.50–339.00	316.71
154	450–500	475	272.50–308.00	292.58
290	500–550	522	263.00–292.00	277.17
62	550–600	568	258.00–276.00	273.72
91	600–650	635	262.00	262.00
41	750–800	783	248.00	248.00
11	850–900	885	225.50	225.50
27	950–1000	955	221.00–224.50	222.82

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
26	300–350	345	317.00–339.00	325.37
11	400–450	420	300.00	300.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	380	345.00	345.00
64	400–450	444	296.00–332.50	320.37
45	450–500	483	292.00–317.50	305.88
32	550–600	561	269.00–275.00	272.24
12	750–800	776	236.00	236.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	300–350	325	415.00	415.00
39	350–400	373	385.00–399.00	394.81
109	400–450	420	342.50–378.00	357.30
243	450–500	470	320.00–352.00	336.96
292	500–550	523	299.00–330.00	320.17
233	550–600	560	285.00–309.00	300.76
135	600–650	619	286.00–304.25	298.06
91	650–700	658	279.00	279.00
27	700–750	700	270.00	270.00
349	800–850	811	272.25–272.75	272.55
120	850–900	896	247.00–253.50	250.24
372	900–950	919	250.75–253.50	252.78

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
119	1000–1050	1,020	229.00–230.50	229.75

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.