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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-01-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-16

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 16

● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Jan 9Jan 16Jan 23 →

Receipts

4,202 head

▲ 1,255 vs last sale 2,947▲ 4,202 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 550 to 599 lbs 7.00 to 10.00 lower, 600 to 649 lbs steady, 650 to 699 lbs steady to 3.00 lower, 700 to 749 lbs 5.00 to 7.00 lower. Best test on heifers 550 to 599 lbs 6.00 to 8.00 lower. Moderate to good demand for calves today with replacement quality heifers seeing the best demand. Quite a few loads and many packages of home raised calves offered, a few consignments still coming off the cow but most were long time weaned. Quality was all over the map today, especially on packages, overall quality was much more attractive last week. Mostly grass or backgrounding type cattle today with less flesh overall than seen last week. A moderate to active market with a few less order buyers attending and a few more farmers and bull breeders in the seats, mostly interested in replacements. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, January 23.

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 $359.52/cwt on 670 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −108.68 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$359.52

670 head · 546 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,964

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$231

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

$23.07/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+4.79

vs SD average

+17.07 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	549	361.52	1,985	612
Medium and Large 1-2	518	338.45	1,753	58

One grade step is worth $23.07/cwt here — about $231 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 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 sale670 hd

359.52

—

SD average6 barns · 3,031 hd

354.73

+4.79

National average190 barns · 32,836 hd

342.45

+17.07

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−108.68

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

30 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 · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	381	448.14/cwt	430.00–457.50	1,707	27
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	426	407.23/cwt	390.00–410.00	1,735	131
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	428	421.54/cwt	415.00–435.00	1,804	69
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	479	378.44/cwt	365.00–386.00	1,813	65
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	489	342.32/cwt	336.00–350.00	1,674	57
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	506	342.50/cwt	342.50–342.50	1,733	48
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	529	368.91/cwt	356.00–386.00	1,952	321
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	571	353.36/cwt	339.00–358.50	2,018	291
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	576	319.00/cwt	319.00–319.00	1,837	10
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	611	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	1,906	24
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	623	329.02/cwt	315.00–339.00	2,050	529
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	667	298.00/cwt	298.00–298.00	1,988	51
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	672	319.37/cwt	304.50–331.00	2,146	372
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	714	302.13/cwt	290.50–309.50	2,157	197
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	752	292.98/cwt	292.00–297.00	2,203	105
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	802	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	2,246	50
Feeder Cattle · Heifers14 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	391	373.13/cwt	362.50–380.00	1,459	23
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	435	366.22/cwt	360.00–369.00	1,593	82
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	460	352.56/cwt	340.00–365.00	1,622	126
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	489	326.50/cwt	316.00–334.00	1,597	88
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	516	306.94/cwt	306.00–307.50	1,584	14
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	519	329.06/cwt	317.50–334.00	1,708	167
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	563	323.51/cwt	310.00–328.00	1,821	303
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	626	301.12/cwt	290.00–317.00	1,885	367
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Replacement	649	357.00/cwt	357.00–357.00	2,317	80
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	695	276.94/cwt	275.50–292.00	1,925	88
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Replacement	698	311.00/cwt	311.00–311.00	2,171	51
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Replacement	702	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	2,211	25
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	732	277.29/cwt	261.00–286.00	2,030	97
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Replacement	751	283.00/cwt	283.00–283.00	2,125	24

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 Jan 16, 2025

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

Receipts 4,202Last week 2,947Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
23	350–400	391	362.50–380.00	373.13
82	400–450	435	360.00–369.00	366.22
126	450–500	460	340.00–365.00	352.56
167	500–550	519	317.50–334.00	329.06
303	550–600	563	310.00–328.00	323.51
367	600–650	626	290.00–317.00	301.12
88	650–700	695	275.50–292.00	276.94
97	700–750	732	261.00–286.00	277.29

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
80	600–650	649	357.00	357.00
51	650–700	698	311.00	311.00
25	700–750	702	315.00	315.00
24	750–800	751	283.00	283.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
88	450–500	489	316.00–334.00	326.50
14	500–550	516	306.00–307.50	306.94

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
131	400–450	426	390.00–410.00	407.23
57	450–500	489	336.00–350.00	342.32
48	500–550	506	342.50	342.50
10	550–600	576	319.00	319.00
24	600–650	611	312.00	312.00
51	650–700	667	298.00	298.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
27	350–400	381	430.00–457.50	448.14
69	400–450	428	415.00–435.00	421.54
65	450–500	479	365.00–386.00	378.44
321	500–550	529	356.00–386.00	368.91
291	550–600	571	339.00–358.50	353.36
529	600–650	623	315.00–339.00	329.02
372	650–700	672	304.50–331.00	319.37
197	700–750	714	290.50–309.50	302.13
105	750–800	752	292.00–297.00	292.98
50	800–850	802	280.00	280.00

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.