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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2026-10-22
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2026-10-22

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 22

● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Oct 15Oct 22Oct 29 →

Receipts

8,347 head

▲ 2,053 vs last sale 6,294▲ 822 vs year ago 7,525 · +10.9%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 450 to 499 lbs mostly steady, 500 to 549 and 600 to 649 lbs steady to 5.00 higher, 550 to 599 lbs 10.00 to 15.00 higher. Heifers 400 to 449 lbs mostly steady, 450 to 599 lbs 15.00 to 20.00 higher. A large offering of calves today featuring many loads and many, many packages, including quite a few replacement heifers. Good to very good demand for these home raised calves. All calves came off the cow and most had full preconditioning, or at least one full round of fall shots. Quality varied, mostly average to attractive. Flesh condition ranged from light to moderate with some moderate plus at times. An active market with a house full of buyers, farmer feeders, and bull breeders competing for cattle. Most of the replacement heifers went back to bull breeders interested in buying back their genetics. Bean harvest is mostly complete and corn harvest is progressing rapidly. Two big feeder cattle sales next week, the first on Tuesday, October 27, featuring Black Angus calves, and regular feeder cattle sale on Thursday, October 29.

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 $470.74/cwt on 2,567 head, up $13.12 from the prior sale. That ranks 5 of 8 comparable sales and sits +2.54 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$470.74

▲ 13.12 vs prior sale

2,567 head · 540 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,541

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$164

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

$33.82/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+9.78

vs SD average

+31.47 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	540	471.32	2,544	2,523
Medium and Large 1-2	544	437.50	2,380	44

One grade step is worth $33.82/cwt here — about $164 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 sale2,567 hd

470.74

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SD average9 barns · 10,788 hd

460.95

+9.78

National average183 barns · 33,329 hd

439.27

+31.47

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

+2.54

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

28 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 · Steers13 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	325	633.87/cwt	610.00–670.00	2,060	27
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	348	560.00/cwt	560.00–560.00	1,949	7
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	354	665.00/cwt	665.00–665.00	2,354	18
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	373	550.00/cwt	530.00–575.00	2,052	48
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	380	621.09/cwt	610.00–644.00	2,360	60
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	421	549.70/cwt	530.00–571.00	2,314	273
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	437	511.49/cwt	492.50–520.00	2,235	154
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	476	513.21/cwt	487.00–532.00	2,443	662
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	479.99/cwt	450.00–505.00	2,520	1,748
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	544	437.50/cwt	437.50–437.50	2,380	44
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	573	451.76/cwt	425.00–470.00	2,589	775
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	616	438.36/cwt	412.00–448.50	2,700	815
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	663	402.37/cwt	394.00–412.50	2,668	96
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	303	530.00/cwt	530.00–530.00	1,606	6
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	321	569.05/cwt	550.00–610.00	1,827	69
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	356	568.92/cwt	566.00–575.00	2,025	40
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	373	501.15/cwt	487.50–530.00	1,869	98
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	478.33/cwt	450.00–510.00	2,009	528
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	438	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,927	9
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	475	480.77/cwt	455.00–502.50	2,284	526
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	480	436.99/cwt	415.00–449.00	2,098	140
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Replacement	484	554.00/cwt	554.00–554.00	2,681	240
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	509	449.72/cwt	422.50–462.50	2,289	393
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Replacement	519	504.61/cwt	480.00–517.50	2,619	278
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	522	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	2,140	20
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	565	428.96/cwt	410.00–444.00	2,424	225
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Replacement	572	516.00/cwt	460.00–580.00	2,952	664
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Replacement	604	417.50/cwt	417.50–417.50	2,522	16

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 22, 2026

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

Receipts 8,347Last week 6,294Year ago 7,525

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
69	300–350	321	550.00–610.00	569.05
40	350–400	356	566.00–575.00	568.92
528	400–450	420	450.00–510.00	478.33
526	450–500	475	455.00–502.50	480.77
393	500–550	509	422.50–462.50	449.72
225	550–600	565	410.00–444.00	428.96

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
240	450–500	484	554.00	554.00
278	500–550	519	480.00–517.50	504.61
664	550–600	572	460.00–580.00	516.00
16	600–650	604	417.50	417.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	303	530.00	530.00
98	350–400	373	487.50–530.00	501.15
9	400–450	438	440.00	440.00
140	450–500	480	415.00–449.00	436.99
20	500–550	522	410.00	410.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
27	300–350	325	610.00–670.00	633.87
60	350–400	380	610.00–644.00	621.09
273	400–450	421	530.00–571.00	549.70
662	450–500	476	487.00–532.00	513.21
1,748	500–550	525	450.00–505.00	479.99
775	550–600	573	425.00–470.00	451.76
815	600–650	616	412.00–448.50	438.36
96	650–700	663	394.00–412.50	402.37

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	348	560.00	560.00
48	350–400	373	530.00–575.00	550.00
154	400–450	437	492.50–520.00	511.49
44	500–550	544	437.50	437.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	350–400	354	665.00	665.00

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.