Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2020-02-20

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Feb 20
● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
3,934 head
2,141 vs last sale 1,793 3,934 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A much larger offering than last week with best test on steers 700 to 800 lbs mostly steady. Heifers not well compared. Moderate to good demand for this offering of many packages and loads of both home raised and backgrounded cattle with several opportunities to buy multiple loads from one producer. Several loads and packages of replacement quality heifers from reputation outfits were met with very good demand. Overall, more flesh on today's offering than last weeks', with most cattle today in moderate to moderate plus flesh with some heavy flesh at times. Quality mostly attractive today. A moderate to active market seen for this offering. Temps have warmed up to slightly above freezing and are expected to stay this way for the next week or so. This is very welcome weather as some producers will start calving soon or have already started. Next feeder cattle sale is in two weeks, Thursday, March 5.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $145.17/cwt on 2,415 head.
Average price
$145.17
2,415 head · 774 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,124
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$168
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Medium and Large 1
$3.07/cwt at this weight
vs the market
7.22
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2646148.2095830
Medium and Large 1776145.131,1262,385
One grade step is worth $3.07/cwt here — about −$168 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale2,415 hd
145.17
SD average8 barns · 17,655 hd
152.38
−7.22
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

30 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 1428172.68/cwt171.50–175.0073918
SteersMedium and Large 1988129.75/cwt129.75–129.751,282110
SteersMedium and Large 1668158.76/cwt156.00–164.001,061195
SteersMedium and Large 1730149.95/cwt145.50–153.501,095474
SteersMedium and Large 1-2595154.50/cwt154.50–154.5091916
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy623153.63/cwt153.50–154.0095750
SteersMedium and Large 1531180.57/cwt172.50–183.5095934
HeifersMedium and Large 1486153.69/cwt151.00–157.0074730
HeifersMedium and Large 1764132.02/cwt130.50–133.251,009154
HeifersMedium and Large 1721133.41/cwt129.50–136.25962209
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement709142.04/cwt141.00–145.001,00780
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2635135.50/cwt135.50–135.5086043
HeifersMedium and Large 1813126.80/cwt126.25–127.001,03127
HeifersMedium and Large 1865128.25/cwt128.25–128.251,10960
SteersMedium and Large 1640161.25/cwt160.75–162.501,032140
SteersMedium and Large 1776140.79/cwt138.75–143.501,093302
SteersMedium and Large 1-2705141.00/cwt141.00–141.0099414
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy525160.00/cwt160.00–160.0084012
SteersMedium and Large 1573165.79/cwt163.00–168.0095018
SteersMedium and Large 1903135.50/cwt135.50–135.501,224126
SteersMedium and Large 1863137.68/cwt134.00–139.251,188269
HeifersMedium and Large 1625146.28/cwt141.00–148.00914191
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement615153.25/cwt153.25–153.2594250
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2684131.66/cwt128.50–134.0090119
HeifersMedium and Large 1440155.00/cwt155.00–155.006825
HeifersMedium and Large 1531152.78/cwt150.00–158.5081135
HeifersMedium and Large 1665145.79/cwt137.00–149.75970179
HeifersMedium and Large 1575150.70/cwt143.50–156.00867244
SteersMedium and Large 1819139.38/cwt136.00–141.001,142637
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2570127.00/cwt127.00–127.007249

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.