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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2024-11-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-21

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Nov 21

● Final29 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Nov 14Nov 21Dec 5 →

Receipts

3,564 head

▲ 918 vs last sale 2,646▼ 1,542 vs year ago 5,106 · −30.2%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 400 to 449 lbs and 500 to 549 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 20.00 higher on 500 to 549 lbs, 450 to 499 lbs 4.00 to 9.00 higher, and 550 to 599 lbs 10.00 to 13.00 higher. Heifers 450 to 549 lbs 10.00 to 15.00 higher, other weight classes of heifers not well compared. Good to very good demand for calves today with load lots from reputation outfits seeing the best demand. A few more weaned packages this week, mostly weaned 30 or so days, but the majority of the offering still coming off the cow. Quality mostly average to attractive with quite a few colored cattle in the mix. Mostly light to moderate flesh on the cattle. An active market with buyers and farmer feeders aggressively trying to fill pens, there will be very few opportunities to get cattle next week. Much cooler and more seasonal weather this week with some snow on the ground. No feeder cattle next week due to Thanksgiving, next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, December 5. Happy Thanksgiving!!

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 $341.16/cwt on 1,048 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −127.04 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$341.16

1,048 head · 542 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,848

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$125

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

$17.72/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+14.06

vs SD average

+31.90 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	542	341.72	1,852	1,015
Medium and Large 1-2	533	324.00	1,727	33

One grade step is worth $17.72/cwt here — about $125 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 sale1,048 hd

341.16

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SD average8 barns · 6,503 hd

327.11

+14.06

National average182 barns · 24,645 hd

309.26

+31.90

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−127.04

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

29 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	323	462.35/cwt	457.00–480.00	1,493	48
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	343	437.00/cwt	437.00–437.00	1,499	6
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	372	367.50/cwt	367.50–367.50	1,367	16
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	387	422.98/cwt	400.00–426.00	1,637	109
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	434	386.82/cwt	377.50–393.00	1,679	179
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	437	349.09/cwt	347.50–362.50	1,526	36
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	477	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,574	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	482	377.53/cwt	367.00–390.00	1,820	230
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fancy	503	366.96/cwt	365.00–370.00	1,846	176
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	528	343.35/cwt	330.00–347.00	1,813	433
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	533	324.00/cwt	324.00–324.00	1,727	33
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	574	329.04/cwt	317.50–334.00	1,889	406
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	617	314.11/cwt	307.00–323.25	1,938	271
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	670	295.32/cwt	279.00–303.00	1,979	38
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	332	358.75/cwt	352.50–371.00	1,191	21
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	335	333.00/cwt	333.00–333.00	1,116	14
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	386	334.39/cwt	332.50–340.00	1,291	41
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	389	365.51/cwt	356.00–379.50	1,422	78
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	418	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,296	8
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	419	341.59/cwt	330.00–349.00	1,431	83
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fancy	428	361.00/cwt	361.00–361.00	1,545	43
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	478	330.23/cwt	314.00–343.00	1,578	367
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	498	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,394	6
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	315.26/cwt	306.00–329.00	1,646	275
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	525	292.36/cwt	284.00–296.00	1,535	33
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	562	297.35/cwt	284.00–304.50	1,671	194
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	608	279.31/cwt	272.50–283.00	1,698	108
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	805	233.50/cwt	233.50–233.50	1,880	22
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,020	233.50/cwt	233.50–233.50	2,382	23

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 Nov 21, 2024

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

Receipts 3,564Last week 2,646Year ago 5,106

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
43	400–450	428	361.00	361.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
23	1000–1050	1,020	233.50	233.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
21	300–350	332	352.50–371.00	358.75
78	350–400	389	356.00–379.50	365.51
83	400–450	419	330.00–349.00	341.59
367	450–500	478	314.00–343.00	330.23
275	500–550	522	306.00–329.00	315.26
194	550–600	562	284.00–304.50	297.35
108	600–650	608	272.50–283.00	279.31
22	800–850	805	233.50	233.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	300–350	335	333.00	333.00
41	350–400	386	332.50–340.00	334.39
8	400–450	418	310.00	310.00
6	450–500	498	280.00	280.00
33	500–550	525	284.00–296.00	292.36

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	343	437.00	437.00
16	350–400	372	367.50	367.50
36	400–450	437	347.50–362.50	349.09
6	450–500	477	330.00	330.00
33	500–550	533	324.00	324.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
48	300–350	323	457.00–480.00	462.35
109	350–400	387	400.00–426.00	422.98
179	400–450	434	377.50–393.00	386.82
230	450–500	482	367.00–390.00	377.53
433	500–550	528	330.00–347.00	343.35
406	550–600	574	317.50–334.00	329.04
271	600–650	617	307.00–323.25	314.11
38	650–700	670	279.00–303.00	295.32

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
176	500–550	503	365.00–370.00	366.96

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.