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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-10-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-09

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 9

● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Oct 2Oct 9Oct 16 →

Receipts

2,028 head

▲ 558 vs last sale 1,470▼ 1,423 vs year ago 3,451 · −41.2%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: a very light yearling offering with no good comparisons to last week's larger offering. Best test on calves was on steers 500 to 549 lbs mostly steady. Good to very good demand for calves this week. Just a couple load lots in today's offering with the majority of calves selling in packages. Calves were mostly attractive in quality and all off the cow in mostly light flesh condition. Shot records varied quite a bit and although good, complete preconditioning has always been very important, buyers are being more selective than ever on calves without a rock solid shot record. An active market with the most activity on load lots, both buyers a few farmer feeders in the seats today. Bean harvest is progressing quickly and some corn harvest has started. Dry weather is making good harvest conditions. A much larger run of calves for the next feeder cattle sale, Thursday, October 16.

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 $487.17/cwt on 522 head. That ranks 7 of 8 comparable sales and sits +18.97 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$487.17

522 head · 545 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,655

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$221

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

$12.33/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.79

vs SD average

+41.32 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	545	487.33	2,658	515
Medium and Large 1-2	513	475.00	2,437	7thin

One grade step is worth $12.33/cwt here — about $221 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 sale522 hd

487.17

—

SD average6 barns · 2,222 hd

487.96

−0.79

National average181 barns · 23,254 hd

445.85

+41.32

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

+18.97

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

26 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	300–350	Medium and Large 1	344	651.99/cwt	635.00–659.00	2,243	35
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	360	633.79/cwt	629.00–639.00	2,282	27
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	395	592.67/cwt	587.50–597.50	2,341	31
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fancy	402	599.00/cwt	599.00–599.00	2,408	19
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	427	529.19/cwt	500.00–535.00	2,260	24
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	440	550.90/cwt	544.00–572.50	2,424	84
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	485	532.46/cwt	529.50–546.00	2,582	204
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	513	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,437	7
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	520	503.11/cwt	486.00–517.50	2,616	253
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	570	472.10/cwt	458.00–481.50	2,691	262
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	603	433.00/cwt	433.00–433.00	2,611	18
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	726	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,868	16
Feeder Cattle · Heifers14 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	326	604.92/cwt	600.00–610.00	1,972	20
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	339	575.00/cwt	575.00–575.00	1,949	12
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	370	559.63/cwt	559.00–560.00	2,071	39
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	375	521.77/cwt	520.00–525.00	1,957	11
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	505.55/cwt	485.00–519.00	2,123	137
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	432	445.92/cwt	445.00–447.50	1,926	13
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	465	464.37/cwt	454.00–479.00	2,159	162
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	515	439.01/cwt	429.00–448.00	2,261	356
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	541	414.82/cwt	397.50–422.50	2,244	68
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	716	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,399	4
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	795	336.50/cwt	336.50–336.50	2,675	4
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	833	339.50/cwt	339.50–339.50	2,828	12
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	878	340.25/cwt	340.25–340.25	2,987	64
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,003	329.00/cwt	329.00–329.00	3,300	11

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 Oct 9, 2025

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

Receipts 2,028Last week 1,470Year ago 3,451

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
20	300–350	326	600.00–610.00	604.92
39	350–400	370	559.00–560.00	559.63
137	400–450	420	485.00–519.00	505.55
162	450–500	465	454.00–479.00	464.37
356	500–550	515	429.00–448.00	439.01
4	700–750	716	335.00	335.00
4	750–800	795	336.50	336.50
12	800–850	833	339.50	339.50
64	850–900	878	340.25	340.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	1000–1050	1,003	329.00	329.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
12	300–350	339	575.00	575.00
11	350–400	375	520.00–525.00	521.77
13	400–450	432	445.00–447.50	445.92
68	500–550	541	397.50–422.50	414.82

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
35	300–350	344	635.00–659.00	651.99
27	350–400	360	629.00–639.00	633.79
84	400–450	440	544.00–572.50	550.90
204	450–500	485	529.50–546.00	532.46
253	500–550	520	486.00–517.50	503.11
262	550–600	570	458.00–481.50	472.10
18	600–650	603	433.00	433.00
16	700–750	726	395.00	395.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
19	400–450	402	599.00	599.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
31	350–400	395	587.50–597.50	592.67
24	400–450	427	500.00–535.00	529.19
7	500–550	513	475.00	475.00

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.