Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2019-10-31

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 31
● Final19 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
6,784 head
3,878 vs last sale 2,906 6,784 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Thursday: steer calves 450 to 700 lbs 2.00 to 5.00 higher except 500 to 550 mostly steady. Heifer calves 450 to 650 lbs 2.00 to 5.00 higher. Moderate to good demand for today's large offering featuring many attractive quality calves in packages and loads, with several large consignments selling multiple loads of same weight cattle. Load lots saw the best demand. Most of the calves were fully preconditioned and in light to moderate flesh off the cow. An active market with a variety of buyers in the seats today. This week has remained dry and cold enabling harvest to progress rapidly. Much of the soybean harvest is completed and corn harvest is well underway. There is much more interest in procuring calves than last week. Next feeder cattle sale is Tuesday, November 5, featuring many of the Red Angus calves that were unable to get in earlier.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $160.41/cwt on 4,014 head.
Average price
$160.41
4,014 head · 572 lb average
Value per head Derived
$917
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
+5.25
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1572160.419174,014
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale4,014 hd
160.41
SD average12 barns · 33,592 hd
155.17
+5.25
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot, as filed

19 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.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
SteersMedium and Large 1567158.75/cwt154.50–163.009001,565
SteersMedium and Large 1515166.40/cwt155.50–173.25857451
SteersMedium and Large 1781150.21/cwt148.00–152.001,17366
SteersMedium and Large 1325174.00/cwt174.00–174.005667
HeifersMedium and Large 1521148.75/cwt140.00–159.50775726
HeifersMedium and Large 1614142.43/cwt137.00–147.00875313
HeifersMedium and Large 1379156.14/cwt153.00–158.0059232
SteersMedium and Large 1482170.44/cwt161.00–176.00822505
SteersMedium and Large 1418179.35/cwt171.00–187.0075092
SteersMedium and Large 1719145.15/cwt140.00–147.001,04423
SteersMedium and Large 1Full675142.00/cwt142.00–142.0095910
HeifersMedium and Large 1482150.25/cwt142.50–156.50724360
HeifersMedium and Large 1725136.92/cwt135.50–137.5099355
SteersMedium and Large 1633154.76/cwt145.00–160.50980798
SteersMedium and Large 1673154.89/cwt144.00–159.251,042384
SteersMedium and Large 1391181.93/cwt172.00–188.5071160
SteersMedium and Large 1Full545151.77/cwt151.50–152.0082753
HeifersMedium and Large 1577142.61/cwt134.00–148.00823705
HeifersMedium and Large 1425152.38/cwt146.00–157.00648111

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.