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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-01-23
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-23

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 23

● Final25 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Jan 16Jan 23Feb 13 →

Receipts

1,890 head

▼ 2,312 vs last sale 4,202▲ 1,890 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 500 to 649 lbs mostly steady. Best test on heifers 450 to 499 lbs 3.00 to 6.00 higher, 550 to 599 lbs mostly steady. Good to very good demand for a lighter offering today with best demand seen for load lots. The feature consignment was 650 steers from a family operation selling in multiple load lots enabling buyers to fill pens with same weight, home raised steers. Many packages offered as well, and similar to last week, quality varied quite a bit on these. Overall quality slightly more attractive than last week. Flesh mostly moderate to moderate plus, overall, more flesh on the cattle this week. An active market with plenty of farmer feeders and buyers in the seats. CME February and April live cattle have reached over 2.00 making cattle feeders very optimistic for the future months and determined to own cattle to market down the road. No feeder cattle next week as there will be a bred cattle sale and no sale the week after for the Black Hills Stock Show, next feeder cattle sale will be February 13.

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 $359.54/cwt on 297 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −108.66 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$359.54

297 head · 556 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,000

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$82

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

$34.90/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+8.72

vs SD average

+18.60 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	551	364.71	2,011	253
Medium and Large 1-2	585	329.81	1,929	44

One grade step is worth $34.90/cwt here — about $82 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 sale297 hd

359.54

—

SD average8 barns · 2,831 hd

350.82

+8.72

National average147 barns · 15,667 hd

340.94

+18.60

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−108.66

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

25 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	350–400	Medium and Large 1	394	440.54/cwt	425.00–450.00	1,736	16
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	404	456.82/cwt	437.50–460.00	1,846	30
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	438	418.00/cwt	418.00–418.00	1,831	9
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	469	389.01/cwt	387.50–390.00	1,824	20
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	475	403.70/cwt	399.00–418.00	1,918	90
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	529	373.99/cwt	359.00–388.00	1,978	120
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	546	352.50/cwt	352.50–352.50	1,925	7
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	573	356.55/cwt	352.00–362.00	2,043	126
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	585	329.81/cwt	328.00–331.00	1,929	44
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	642	332.71/cwt	331.00–347.00	2,136	344
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	645	318.00/cwt	318.00–318.00	2,051	11
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	676	318.52/cwt	310.00–325.00	2,153	138
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	738	303.96/cwt	294.50–305.00	2,243	271
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	778	296.25/cwt	296.25–296.25	2,305	73
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	333	392.50/cwt	392.50–392.50	1,307	9
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	385	371.53/cwt	367.00–375.00	1,430	31
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	418	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	1,496	4
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	439	367.12/cwt	364.00–370.00	1,612	35
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	467	370.24/cwt	363.00–385.00	1,729	107
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	483	344.17/cwt	340.00–350.00	1,662	34
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	511	353.40/cwt	352.00–356.00	1,806	70
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	532	313.67/cwt	295.00–327.50	1,669	37
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	566	322.70/cwt	316.00–330.00	1,826	141
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	643	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,807	8
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	669	298.50/cwt	298.50–298.50	1,997	34

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.

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Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, SD

Thu Jan 23, 2025

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

Receipts 1,890Last week 4,202Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	300–350	333	392.50	392.50
31	350–400	385	367.00–375.00	371.53
35	400–450	439	364.00–370.00	367.12
107	450–500	467	363.00–385.00	370.24
70	500–550	511	352.00–356.00	353.40
141	550–600	566	316.00–330.00	322.70
34	650–700	669	298.50	298.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	400–450	418	358.00	358.00
34	450–500	483	340.00–350.00	344.17
37	500–550	532	295.00–327.50	313.67
8	600–650	643	281.00	281.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	400–450	438	418.00	418.00
20	450–500	469	387.50–390.00	389.01
44	550–600	585	328.00–331.00	329.81
11	600–650	645	318.00	318.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	350–400	394	425.00–450.00	440.54
30	400–450	404	437.50–460.00	456.82
90	450–500	475	399.00–418.00	403.70
120	500–550	529	359.00–388.00	373.99
126	550–600	573	352.00–362.00	356.55
344	600–650	642	331.00–347.00	332.71
138	650–700	676	310.00–325.00	318.52
271	700–750	738	294.50–305.00	303.96
73	750–800	778	296.25	296.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
7	500–550	546	352.50	352.50

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.