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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-08-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-21

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

● Final21 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

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Receipts

739 head

▼ 677 vs last sale 1,416▲ 739 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale is several months so an accurate price trend can not be developed. Very good demand for this light offering consisting of a handful of loads and packages. All cattle came off the grass and flesh condition was mostly light to moderate with some fill seen at times. Varied quality, especially on packages. An active market with the most activity on load lots and multiple loads of same weight cattle, putting loads together with packages today was difficult. Timely rain has kept grass plentiful and cattle are able to stay out on pastures. Watch local listings for the next feeder cattle sale.

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 $432.86/cwt on 14 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −35.34 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$432.86

14 head · 584 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,529

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$42

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

$17.00/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.70

vs SD average

+32.97 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	575	445.00	2,559	4thin
Medium and Large 1-2	588	428.00	2,517	10thin

One grade step is worth $17.00/cwt here — about $42 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 700–800 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 sale14 hd

432.86

—

SD average3 barns · 71 hd

433.56

−0.70

National average156 barns · 7,040 hd

399.89

+32.97

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−35.34

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

21 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 · Steers12 lots · lightest first
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	496	485.00/cwt	485.00–485.00	2,406	15
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	575	445.00/cwt	445.00–445.00	2,559	4
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	588	428.00/cwt	428.00–428.00	2,517	10
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	601	437.50/cwt	437.50–437.50	2,629	6
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	663	418.37/cwt	412.00–424.00	2,774	37
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	714	357.50/cwt	357.50–357.50	2,553	5
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	718	387.24/cwt	385.00–388.00	2,780	16
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	768	379.58/cwt	375.00–381.00	2,915	30
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	805	359.67/cwt	356.00–362.50	2,895	16
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	875	348.00/cwt	348.00–348.00	3,045	19
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	960	340.50/cwt	340.50–340.50	3,269	61
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,008	336.50/cwt	336.50–336.50	3,392	185
Feeder Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	531	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,390	24
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	566	410.61/cwt	396.00–420.00	2,324	26
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	590	383.00/cwt	383.00–383.00	2,260	6
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	630	382.45/cwt	375.00–394.00	2,409	22
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	699	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	2,586	23
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	745	352.00/cwt	352.00–352.00	2,622	10
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Spayed	779	388.00/cwt	388.00–388.00	3,023	153
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	916	315.83/cwt	312.50–325.00	2,893	18
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	960	324.00/cwt	324.00–324.00	3,110	18

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 Aug 21, 2025

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

Receipts 739Last week 1,416Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
24	500–550	531	450.00	450.00
26	550–600	566	396.00–420.00	410.61
22	600–650	630	375.00–394.00	382.45
23	650–700	699	370.00	370.00
10	700–750	745	352.00	352.00
18	900–950	916	312.50–325.00	315.83
18	950–1000	960	324.00	324.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	550–600	590	383.00	383.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
153	750–800	779	388.00	388.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	496	485.00	485.00
4	550–600	575	445.00	445.00
6	600–650	601	437.50	437.50
37	650–700	663	412.00–424.00	418.37
16	700–750	718	385.00–388.00	387.24
30	750–800	768	375.00–381.00	379.58
16	800–850	805	356.00–362.50	359.67
19	850–900	875	348.00	348.00
61	950–1000	960	340.50	340.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	550–600	588	428.00	428.00
5	700–750	714	357.50	357.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
185	1000–1050	1,008	336.50	336.50

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.