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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-04-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-03

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Apr 3

● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Mar 6Apr 3Apr 17 →

Receipts

1,955 head

▼ 1,451 vs last sale 3,406▲ 1,955 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in recent weeks so a price trend can not be established. Many packages and just a handful of loads made up today's offering with quite a few consignments of high quality, home raised heifers which were sent back to the country to make cows. Very good demand for these heifers, moderate to good demand for remaining packages and loads as quality on these varied quite a bit today. Quite a few green, light cattle which could go to grass and buyers are still competitive on these cattle. Flesh condition moderate to moderate plus overall with very few finishing type cattle in today's offering. An active market despite a negative day on both feeder and live cattle futures. The area received heavy, wet snow and some rain mixed in over the last few days, much welcome moisture for this dry country. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, April 17, featuring fall calves.

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 $374.64/cwt on 290 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −93.56 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$374.64

290 head · 575 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,154

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$233

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

$27.17/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−4.66

vs SD average

+5.63 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	577	377.64	2,181	258
Medium and Large 1-2	556	350.47	1,947	32

One grade step is worth $27.17/cwt here — about $233 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 sale290 hd

374.64

—

SD average6 barns · 1,210 hd

379.30

−4.66

National average168 barns · 11,835 hd

369.01

+5.63

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−93.56

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

33 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 · Steers17 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	338	452.30/cwt	440.00–460.00	1,529	28
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	430.00/cwt	430.00–430.00	1,806	9
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	448	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	1,803	5
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	460	414.18/cwt	402.50–421.00	1,905	59
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	496	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,885	5
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	520	352.50/cwt	352.50–352.50	1,833	12
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	532	392.49/cwt	385.00–404.00	2,088	28
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	577	349.25/cwt	349.00–350.00	2,015	20
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	583	375.83/cwt	360.00–380.50	2,191	230
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	630	348.51/cwt	329.00–353.00	2,196	33
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	677	327.35/cwt	320.00–341.00	2,216	164
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	680	312.35/cwt	305.00–318.00	2,124	60
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	711	330.42/cwt	316.00–333.00	2,349	94
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	796	293.69/cwt	289.00–304.00	2,338	51
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	828	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	2,236	12
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	899	273.50/cwt	273.50–273.50	2,459	32
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	999	259.50/cwt	259.50–259.50	2,592	60
Feeder Cattle · Heifers16 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	434	386.56/cwt	380.00–390.00	1,678	27
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	466	367.70/cwt	367.50–368.00	1,713	15
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	543	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,792	6
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	564	336.29/cwt	320.00–340.00	1,897	112
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	580	312.50/cwt	312.50–312.50	1,813	26
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	623	285.65/cwt	282.00–289.00	1,780	32
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	635	315.72/cwt	305.00–318.00	2,005	64
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	663	302.55/cwt	297.00–307.00	2,006	158
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	727	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,963	13
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	737	286.83/cwt	276.00–295.00	2,114	156
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	766	280.90/cwt	279.00–281.00	2,152	77
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Replacement	768	298.49/cwt	292.50–304.00	2,292	66
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	780	268.00/cwt	268.00–268.00	2,090	10
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Replacement	823	291.50/cwt	291.50–291.50	2,399	29
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	829	272.00/cwt	272.00–272.00	2,255	21
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	856	264.12/cwt	259.50–267.00	2,261	62

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 Apr 3, 2025

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

Receipts 1,955Last week 3,406Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
10	750–800	780	268.00	268.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
27	400–450	434	380.00–390.00	386.56
15	450–500	466	367.50–368.00	367.70
6	500–550	543	330.00	330.00
112	550–600	564	320.00–340.00	336.29
64	600–650	635	305.00–318.00	315.72
158	650–700	663	297.00–307.00	302.55
156	700–750	737	276.00–295.00	286.83
77	750–800	766	279.00–281.00	280.90
21	800–850	829	272.00	272.00
62	850–900	856	259.50–267.00	264.12

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
66	750–800	768	292.50–304.00	298.49
29	800–850	823	291.50	291.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
26	550–600	580	312.50	312.50
32	600–650	623	282.00–289.00	285.65
13	700–750	727	270.00	270.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	448	402.50	402.50
5	450–500	496	380.00	380.00
12	500–550	520	352.50	352.50
20	550–600	577	349.00–350.00	349.25
60	650–700	680	305.00–318.00	312.35

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
28	300–350	338	440.00–460.00	452.30
9	400–450	420	430.00	430.00
59	450–500	460	402.50–421.00	414.18
28	500–550	532	385.00–404.00	392.49
230	550–600	583	360.00–380.50	375.83
33	600–650	630	329.00–353.00	348.51
164	650–700	677	320.00–341.00	327.35
94	700–750	711	316.00–333.00	330.42
51	750–800	796	289.00–304.00	293.69
12	800–850	828	270.00	270.00
32	850–900	899	273.50	273.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
60	950–1000	999	259.50	259.50

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.