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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-10-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-02

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 2

● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Sep 25Oct 2Oct 9 →

Receipts

1,470 head

▲ 539 vs last sale 931▲ 464 vs year ago 1,006 · +46.1%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: mostly yearling steers this week and heifers last week so no trend can be established. Very good demand for yearlings, several attractive strings selling in multiple load lots made up the offering. All came off grass in light to moderate flesh with some fill seen at times. This was the first test of spring calves, a light offering with loads lots seeing good demand and packages moderate demand. All calves came off the cow and most had two rounds of shots. A wide range of quality, especially on packages. Most yards are not yet ready for calves and farmer feeders who would buy packages are busy with harvest. An active market on yearlings, moderate on calves. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 9, with a larger offering of 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 $496.30/cwt on 292 head. That ranks 7 of 8 comparable sales and sits +28.10 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$496.30

292 head · 517 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,568

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$560

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

$96.39/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+30.49

vs SD average

+73.65 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	517	508.39	2,628	238
Medium and Large 1-2	540	475.00	2,565	14thin
Large 1	532	473.00	2,516	13thin
Medium and Large 2	502	412.00	2,068	27

One grade step is worth $96.39/cwt here — about $560 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 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 sale292 hd

496.30

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SD average6 barns · 629 hd

465.81

+30.49

National average177 barns · 15,324 hd

422.65

+73.65

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

+28.10

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

23 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	300–350	Medium and Large 1	329	647.50/cwt	647.50–647.50	2,130	23
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 2	345	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,656	6
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	424	542.00/cwt	542.00–542.00	2,298	56
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	449	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	2,155	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	451	535.00/cwt	535.00–535.00	2,413	30
Steers	450–500	Large 1	473	492.50/cwt	492.50–492.50	2,330	19
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 2	502	412.00/cwt	412.00–412.00	2,068	27
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	517	508.39/cwt	500.00–517.00	2,628	238
Steers	500–550	Large 1	532	473.00/cwt	473.00–473.00	2,516	13
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	540	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,565	14
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	862	370.82/cwt	359.00–373.75	3,196	207
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	936	352.26/cwt	345.00–359.00	3,297	264
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	955	347.60/cwt	345.00–350.50	3,320	121
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,024	334.75/cwt	334.75–334.75	3,428	60
Feeder Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1	292	560.00/cwt	560.00–560.00	1,635	9
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	377	530.00/cwt	530.00–530.00	1,998	58
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	393	470.00/cwt	470.00–470.00	1,847	7
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	432	445.00/cwt	445.00–445.00	1,922	5
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	464	461.50/cwt	442.50–465.00	2,141	131
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	533	430.00/cwt	430.00–430.00	2,292	21
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	543	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,145	10
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,003	301.00/cwt	301.00–301.00	3,019	7
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,083	299.00/cwt	299.00–299.00	3,238	5

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 Oct 2, 2025

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

Receipts 1,470Last week 931Year ago 1,006

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	449	480.00	480.00
14	500–550	540	475.00	475.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
23	300–350	329	647.50	647.50
56	400–450	424	542.00	542.00
30	450–500	451	535.00	535.00
238	500–550	517	500.00–517.00	508.39
207	850–900	862	359.00–373.75	370.82
264	900–950	936	345.00–359.00	352.26
121	950–1000	955	345.00–350.50	347.60

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	345	480.00	480.00
27	500–550	502	412.00	412.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	450–500	473	492.50	492.50
13	500–550	532	473.00	473.00
60	1000–1050	1,024	334.75	334.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	250–300	292	560.00	560.00
58	350–400	377	530.00	530.00
5	400–450	432	445.00	445.00
131	450–500	464	442.50–465.00	461.50
21	500–550	533	430.00	430.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	393	470.00	470.00
10	500–550	543	395.00	395.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	1000–1050	1,003	301.00	301.00
5	1050–1100	1,083	299.00	299.00

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.