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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-11-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-11-20

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Nov 20

● Final32 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Nov 13Nov 20Dec 4 →

Receipts

1,959 head

▼ 2,387 vs last sale 4,346▼ 1,605 vs year ago 3,564 · −45.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 550 to 649 lbs 25.00 to 30.00 lower on a narrow comparison. Best test on heifers 500 to 549 lbs 16.00 lower. Moderate to good demand for calves today. A totally different offering of calves than seen last week as far as quality. Many plain quality calves in the offering today and also many colored hides, all selling in packages, making it a challenge to put a load of uniform calves together. All calves off the cow and many had full preconditioning. Flesh varied also, from light to moderate plus. A moderate market with a few less buyers and farmer feeders in the seats than last week. Losses on both live and feeder cattle futures again today. This volatility over the last couple weeks has eroded all prior confidence buyers and feeders had coming into this fall marketing season leaving nothing but uncertainty in how to proceed going forward. No feeder cattle next week due to Thanksgiving, a nice line up of bred cattle on Tuesday, November 25, along with the annual pie auction, next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, December 4.

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 $422.27/cwt on 359 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −45.93 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$422.27

359 head · 549 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,317

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$122

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1

$49.45/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−15.96

vs SD average

+12.19 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	553	431.95	2,387	264
Medium and Large 1-2	525	398.40	2,092	77
Large 1	592	382.50	2,264	18thin

One grade step is worth $49.45/cwt here — about $122 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale359 hd

422.27

—

SD average8 barns · 5,766 hd

438.23

−15.96

National average185 barns · 23,076 hd

410.08

+12.19

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−45.93

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

32 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 · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	373	571.97/cwt	565.00–585.00	2,133	25
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	377	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	2,036	9
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	437	488.48/cwt	477.50–500.00	2,135	45
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	475	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	1,995	7
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	492	474.85/cwt	470.00–485.00	2,336	37
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	516	460.09/cwt	432.50–477.50	2,374	82
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	524	427.50/cwt	427.50–427.50	2,240	15
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	525	398.40/cwt	388.00–410.00	2,092	77
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	573	418.53/cwt	400.00–430.00	2,398	167
Steers	550–600	Large 1	592	382.50/cwt	382.50–382.50	2,264	18
Steers	600–650	Large 1	603	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	2,050	6
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	613	372.73/cwt	372.50–375.00	2,285	43
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	631	396.06/cwt	381.00–408.00	2,499	247
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	654	387.50/cwt	387.50–387.50	2,534	5
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	703	352.50/cwt	352.50–352.50	2,478	47
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,072	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	2,841	23
Feeder Cattle · Heifers16 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1	298	510.00/cwt	510.00–510.00	1,520	5
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	376	462.65/cwt	450.00–490.00	1,740	28
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	376	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	1,579	18
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	440	392.50/cwt	392.50–392.50	1,727	10
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	444	445.05/cwt	435.00–457.50	1,976	48
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	467	374.24/cwt	372.50–377.50	1,748	38
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	469	417.58/cwt	400.00–428.00	1,958	54
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	497	322.22/cwt	320.00–325.00	1,601	9
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	397.09/cwt	376.00–407.50	2,085	219
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	539	350.27/cwt	332.50–367.50	1,888	67
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	567	339.86/cwt	330.00–350.00	1,927	28
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	581	322.50/cwt	322.50–322.50	1,874	7
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	609	360.75/cwt	341.00–372.00	2,197	182
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	661	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	2,082	13
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,006	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	3,018	18
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,077	279.14/cwt	279.00–280.00	3,006	35

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 Nov 20, 2025

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

Receipts 1,959Last week 4,346Year ago 3,564

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	550–600	592	382.50	382.50
6	600–650	603	340.00	340.00
23	1050–1100	1,072	265.00	265.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
15	500–550	524	427.50	427.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
25	350–400	373	565.00–585.00	571.97
45	400–450	437	477.50–500.00	488.48
37	450–500	492	470.00–485.00	474.85
82	500–550	516	432.50–477.50	460.09
167	550–600	573	400.00–430.00	418.53
247	600–650	631	381.00–408.00	396.06
5	650–700	654	387.50	387.50
47	700–750	703	352.50	352.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	350–400	377	540.00	540.00
7	450–500	475	420.00	420.00
77	500–550	525	388.00–410.00	398.40
43	600–650	613	372.50–375.00	372.73

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	1000–1050	1,006	300.00	300.00
35	1050–1100	1,077	279.00–280.00	279.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	250–300	298	510.00	510.00
28	350–400	376	450.00–490.00	462.65
48	400–450	444	435.00–457.50	445.05
54	450–500	469	400.00–428.00	417.58
219	500–550	525	376.00–407.50	397.09
28	550–600	567	330.00–350.00	339.86
182	600–650	609	341.00–372.00	360.75
13	650–700	661	315.00	315.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
18	350–400	376	420.00	420.00
10	400–450	440	392.50	392.50
38	450–500	467	372.50–377.50	374.24
67	500–550	539	332.50–367.50	350.27
7	550–600	581	322.50	322.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	497	320.00–325.00	322.22

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.