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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-10-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-30

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 30

● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Oct 23Oct 30Nov 6 →

Receipts

6,307 head

▼ 1,218 vs last sale 7,525▲ 806 vs year ago 5,501 · +14.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steer calves 400 to 499 lbs 5.00 to 6.00 lower, 500 to 649 lbs 15.00 to 20.00 lower. Heifer calves 400 to 449 lbs 10.00 to 13.00 lower, 450 to 499 lbs mostly steady, 500 to 599 lbs 15.00 to 20.00 lower. Good to very good demand for calves today. Many packages and loads and sometimes multiple loads of home raised calves, most with full preconditioning. Quality was mostly attractive on these calves and flesh ranged from light to some moderate plus. An active market which strengthened throughout the day. Many buyers, farmer feeders, and some bull breeders in the seats, buying with much more enthusiasm than earlier this week. Even though it was not a day of huge gains on the futures board, it was not a day of limit losses either and this seemed to give buyers some motivation. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, November 6.

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 $481.51/cwt on 1,729 head. That ranks 6 of 8 comparable sales and sits +13.31 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$481.51

1,729 head · 548 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,639

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$302

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

$50.95/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+21.15

vs SD average

+51.79 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	548	483.92	2,653	1,647
Medium and Large 1-2	543	432.97	2,351	82

One grade step is worth $50.95/cwt here — about $302 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 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 sale1,729 hd

481.51

—

SD average11 barns · 11,281 hd

460.35

+21.15

National average179 barns · 33,800 hd

429.72

+51.79

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

+13.31

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

31 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 · Steers18 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	307	640.00/cwt	640.00–640.00	1,965	16
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	374	604.70/cwt	600.00–615.00	2,262	76
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	391	573.86/cwt	570.00–580.00	2,244	31
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	404	591.79/cwt	582.00–595.00	2,391	91
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	421	524.69/cwt	505.00–545.00	2,209	29
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	475	540.14/cwt	517.50–564.00	2,566	560
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	484	491.64/cwt	460.00–510.00	2,380	79
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fancy	504	535.00/cwt	535.00–535.00	2,696	28
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	529	440.72/cwt	432.50–465.00	2,331	45
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	531	497.60/cwt	479.00–520.00	2,642	836
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	533	470.00/cwt	470.00–470.00	2,505	16
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	560	423.54/cwt	422.50–425.00	2,372	37
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	569	467.44/cwt	442.50–482.50	2,660	767
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	620	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	2,248	7
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	623	454.70/cwt	427.50–470.00	2,833	897
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	656	373.00/cwt	373.00–373.00	2,447	20
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	657	436.29/cwt	424.00–444.50	2,866	118
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	719	397.50/cwt	397.50–397.50	2,858	24
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	347	500.00/cwt	500.00–500.00	1,735	29
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	381	516.27/cwt	500.00–537.50	1,967	127
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	417	457.08/cwt	445.00–460.00	1,906	20
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	436	513.81/cwt	480.00–522.50	2,240	193
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	471	449.17/cwt	420.00–460.00	2,116	90
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	476	491.24/cwt	472.50–506.00	2,338	511
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Replacement	505	484.00/cwt	484.00–484.00	2,444	123
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	519	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	2,089	18
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	523	443.66/cwt	427.00–455.00	2,320	342
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	562	406.00/cwt	406.00–406.00	2,282	14
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	567	441.67/cwt	418.50–448.50	2,504	618
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	601	416.00/cwt	416.00–416.00	2,500	96
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Replacement	611	466.00/cwt	466.00–466.00	2,847	70

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 30, 2025

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

Receipts 6,307Last week 7,525Year ago 5,501

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
28	500–550	504	535.00	535.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
16	500–550	533	470.00	470.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	300–350	307	640.00	640.00
76	350–400	374	600.00–615.00	604.70
91	400–450	404	582.00–595.00	591.79
560	450–500	475	517.50–564.00	540.14
836	500–550	531	479.00–520.00	497.60
767	550–600	569	442.50–482.50	467.44
897	600–650	623	427.50–470.00	454.70
118	650–700	657	424.00–444.50	436.29
24	700–750	719	397.50	397.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
31	350–400	391	570.00–580.00	573.86
29	400–450	421	505.00–545.00	524.69
79	450–500	484	460.00–510.00	491.64
45	500–550	529	432.50–465.00	440.72
37	550–600	560	422.50–425.00	423.54
7	600–650	620	362.50	362.50
20	650–700	656	373.00	373.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
29	300–350	347	500.00	500.00
127	350–400	381	500.00–537.50	516.27
193	400–450	436	480.00–522.50	513.81
511	450–500	476	472.50–506.00	491.24
342	500–550	523	427.00–455.00	443.66
618	550–600	567	418.50–448.50	441.67
96	600–650	601	416.00	416.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
123	500–550	505	484.00	484.00
70	600–650	611	466.00	466.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
20	400–450	417	445.00–460.00	457.08
90	450–500	471	420.00–460.00	449.17
18	500–550	519	402.50	402.50
14	550–600	562	406.00	406.00

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.