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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2024-10-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-24

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 24

● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Oct 17Oct 24Oct 31 →

Receipts

5,261 head

▼ 867 vs last sale 6,128▼ 408 vs year ago 5,669 · −7.2%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 400 to 449 lbs 5.00 to 7.00 lower, 450 to 499 and 600 to 649 lbs steady to 2.00 higher, 500 to 599 lbs mostly steady with instances 4.00 lower on 500 to 549 lbs. Heifers 400 to 499 lbs 2.00 to 5.00 higher, 500 to 599 lbs 5.00 to 6.00 higher. Very good demand for this large calf offering featuring many loads and packages with load lots from reputation ranches seeing excellent demand. Lots of attractive quality calves to choose from, all coming off the cow. Flesh varied more this week but calves were still green enough and bloomy. Some discrimination on calves without all their shots but most of the offering had at least on full round which seems to be enough for quite a few buyers. An active market with a full house of buyers as well as some farmer feeders and bull breeders. Corn harvest is wrapping up, the weather basically caused no delays in getting harvest completed this year so it was accomplished pretty quickly. More feeders are ready to take on calves with the harvest out of the way. Next week features two feeder cattle sales, Tuesday, October 29, and Thursday, October 31.

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 $320.78/cwt on 1,521 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −147.42 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$320.78

1,521 head · 544 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,744

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$93

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

$17.25/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+2.80

vs SD average

+21.74 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	544	321.78	1,749	1,433
Medium and Large 1-2	544	304.53	1,657	88

One grade step is worth $17.25/cwt here — about $93 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale1,521 hd

320.78

—

SD average11 barns · 10,599 hd

317.98

+2.80

National average191 barns · 36,605 hd

299.04

+21.74

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−147.42

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

26 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 · Steers14 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	332	389.81/cwt	387.50–392.50	1,294	11
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	381	394.26/cwt	385.00–402.50	1,502	50
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	426	377.66/cwt	362.00–389.00	1,609	205
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	437	340.29/cwt	335.00–342.00	1,487	21
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	472	361.91/cwt	347.00–375.00	1,708	459
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	485	334.41/cwt	327.50–342.50	1,622	51
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	527	328.17/cwt	315.00–340.00	1,729	753
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	528	309.85/cwt	309.00–311.00	1,636	58
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	562	314.70/cwt	303.00–327.50	1,769	680
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	575	294.24/cwt	294.00–295.00	1,692	30
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Fancy	622	314.25/cwt	314.25–314.25	1,955	184
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	629	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,705	21
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	630	297.00/cwt	286.00–303.75	1,871	396
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	663	289.10/cwt	282.00–290.00	1,917	88
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	325	347.96/cwt	337.50–355.00	1,131	23
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	379	342.92/cwt	335.00–357.00	1,300	82
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	417	345.70/cwt	330.00–358.00	1,442	266
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	478	316.95/cwt	301.00–325.00	1,515	485
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	497	292.56/cwt	286.00–298.00	1,454	44
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	521	295.07/cwt	281.00–305.50	1,537	448
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Replacement	522	309.65/cwt	309.00–310.00	1,616	221
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	531	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,439	4
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Replacement	555	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,721	97
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	577	280.61/cwt	274.00–287.50	1,619	178
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	594	263.00/cwt	263.00–263.00	1,562	15
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	610	264.00/cwt	264.00–264.00	1,610	11

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 24, 2024

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

Receipts 5,261Last week 6,128Year ago 5,669

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
23	300–350	325	337.50–355.00	347.96
82	350–400	379	335.00–357.00	342.92
266	400–450	417	330.00–358.00	345.70
485	450–500	478	301.00–325.00	316.95
448	500–550	521	281.00–305.50	295.07
178	550–600	577	274.00–287.50	280.61
11	600–650	610	264.00	264.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
44	450–500	497	286.00–298.00	292.56
4	500–550	531	271.00	271.00
15	550–600	594	263.00	263.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
221	500–550	522	309.00–310.00	309.65
97	550–600	555	310.00	310.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	300–350	332	387.50–392.50	389.81
50	350–400	381	385.00–402.50	394.26
205	400–450	426	362.00–389.00	377.66
459	450–500	472	347.00–375.00	361.91
753	500–550	527	315.00–340.00	328.17
680	550–600	562	303.00–327.50	314.70
396	600–650	630	286.00–303.75	297.00
88	650–700	663	282.00–290.00	289.10

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
21	400–450	437	335.00–342.00	340.29
51	450–500	485	327.50–342.50	334.41
58	500–550	528	309.00–311.00	309.85
30	550–600	575	294.00–295.00	294.24
21	600–650	629	271.00	271.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
184	600–650	622	314.25	314.25

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.