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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2026-01-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2026-01-08

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 8

● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Dec 4Jan 8Jan 15 →

Receipts

1,246 head

▼ 3,050 vs last sale 4,296▼ 1,701 vs year ago 2,947 · −57.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First feeder cattle sale in recent weeks so no price trend is available. A light offering of feeders today with load lots seeing very good demand and packages selling with moderate to good demand, it was difficult to make a load from packages. An attractive offering of home raised, weaned, and vaccinated calves. Flesh condition was mostly moderate to moderate plus, a few calves in heavy flesh. An active market with a nice crowd of buyers and some farmer feeders in the seats. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, January 15, featuring Red Angus replacement heifers.

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 $497.92/cwt on 183 head. That ranks 7 of 8 comparable sales and sits +29.72 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$497.92

183 head · 550 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,736

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+0.56

vs SD average

+31.59 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	550	497.92	2,736	183

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale183 hd

497.92

—

SD average4 barns · 1,379 hd

497.36

+0.56

National average195 barns · 28,890 hd

466.33

+31.59

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

+29.72

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

17 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 · Steers10 lots · lightest first
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	519.40/cwt	501.00–523.00	2,711	78
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	570	481.96/cwt	455.00–484.00	2,747	105
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	469.90/cwt	446.00–481.00	2,890	283
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	624	387.50/cwt	387.50–387.50	2,418	17
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	634	417.00/cwt	417.00–417.00	2,644	5
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	676	425.19/cwt	402.50–432.25	2,874	118
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	707	413.21/cwt	387.50–414.00	2,921	169
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	761	379.02/cwt	350.00–387.00	2,884	100
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	854	353.00/cwt	353.00–353.00	3,015	63
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	993	332.25/cwt	332.25–332.25	3,299	60
Feeder Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	453	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,039	14
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	507	460.00/cwt	460.00–460.00	2,332	13
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	566	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	2,349	20
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	604	397.50/cwt	397.50–397.50	2,401	5
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	666	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	2,464	5
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	725	355.48/cwt	350.00–366.00	2,577	40
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	838	328.00/cwt	328.00–328.00	2,749	65

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 Jan 8, 2026

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

Receipts 1,246Last week 4,296Year ago 2,947

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
78	500–550	522	501.00–523.00	519.40
105	550–600	570	455.00–484.00	481.96
283	600–650	615	446.00–481.00	469.90
118	650–700	676	402.50–432.25	425.19
169	700–750	707	387.50–414.00	413.21
100	750–800	761	350.00–387.00	379.02
63	850–900	854	353.00	353.00
60	950–1000	993	332.25	332.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
17	600–650	624	387.50	387.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	600–650	634	417.00	417.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
14	450–500	453	450.00	450.00
13	500–550	507	460.00	460.00
20	550–600	566	415.00	415.00
5	600–650	604	397.50	397.50
5	650–700	666	370.00	370.00
40	700–750	725	350.00–366.00	355.48
65	800–850	838	328.00	328.00

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.