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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-04-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-24

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

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

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Receipts

1,405 head

▼ 391 vs last sale 1,796▼ 35 vs year ago 1,440 · −2.4%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Different weight classes than last week so an accurate price trend can not be established. Today's feature consignment was a string of 1200 backgrounded black steers in moderate to moderate plus flesh from one family operation. These attractive steers were met with very good demand with buyers taking all loads of same weight cattle to fill pens. A handful of home raised packages made up the rest of the offering, mostly plain to average in quality and met with moderate demand. An active market for this offering with fewer buyers attending but those present were determined to own cattle. Another string of steers from the same family operation will be offered next Thursday, May 1.

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 $399.58/cwt on 78 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −68.62 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$399.58

78 head · 555 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,218

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+13.00

vs SD average

+25.56 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	555	399.58	2,218	78

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale78 hd

399.58

—

SD average4 barns · 296 hd

386.59

+13.00

National average172 barns · 11,123 hd

374.02

+25.56

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−68.62

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

10 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 · Steers7 lots · lightest first
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	468	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	1,895	15
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	549	406.50/cwt	406.50–406.50	2,232	65
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	585	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	2,135	13
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	782	267.50/cwt	267.50–267.50	2,092	7
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	783	310.54/cwt	309.00–311.00	2,432	357
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	809	311.00/cwt	311.00–311.00	2,516	204
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	885	290.52/cwt	289.00–291.00	2,571	584
Feeder Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	476	336.13/cwt	332.50–340.00	1,600	12
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	607	314.00/cwt	314.00–314.00	1,906	22
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	758	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	1,971	10

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 24, 2025

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

Receipts 1,405Last week 1,796Year ago 1,440

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
12	450–500	476	332.50–340.00	336.13
22	600–650	607	314.00	314.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	750–800	758	260.00	260.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
65	500–550	549	406.50	406.50
13	550–600	585	365.00	365.00
357	750–800	783	309.00–311.00	310.54
204	800–850	809	311.00	311.00
584	850–900	885	289.00–291.00	290.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	468	405.00	405.00
7	750–800	782	267.50	267.50

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.