Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2020-10-08

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 8
● Final32 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
2,744 head
1,853 vs last sale 891 2,744 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Too few yearlings to compare to last week and develop as accurate trend. Good demand for a couple loads and many packages, many of these tested open heifers, that made up today's yearling offering. Quality and flesh mostly attractive with most of the offering being home raised and coming off grass. Moderate demand for the first offering of spring calves of the season. All calves off the cow today with varied preconditioning, calves without all their shots or without written proof of having these shots were met with less demand. Quality varied, but mostly average to attractive. Flesh mostly light to moderate. A moderate market with a couple farmer feeders and many order buyers attending the auction. Many producers and farmer feeders are busy with harvest and other fall work and are not yet ready for calves, especially unweaned ones which require a good deal of attention. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 15, expecting 6000 calves.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $162.14/cwt on 1,250 head.
Average price
$162.14
1,250 head · 550 lb average
Value per head Derived
$892
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$402
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1
$35.84/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+16.37
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1547162.348891,243
Large 11,020126.501,2907thin
One grade step is worth $35.84/cwt here — about −$402 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 sale1,250 hd
162.14
SD average8 barns · 11,075 hd
145.77
+16.37
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

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.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersLarge 11,055124.00/cwt124.00–124.001,3084
HeifersLarge 11,040127.00/cwt127.00–127.001,3215
SteersLarge 11,020126.50/cwt126.50–126.501,2907
HeifersMedium and Large 1Full405146.00/cwt146.00–146.0059117
SteersMedium and Large 1Full330160.00/cwt160.00–160.005287
HeifersMedium and Large 1280182.00/cwt182.00–182.005106
HeifersMedium and Large 1663143.31/cwt140.50–144.0095043
HeifersMedium and Large 1605140.50/cwt140.50–140.5085021
HeifersMedium and Large 1868138.25/cwt135.50–140.251,200123
SteersMedium and Large 1681148.04/cwt139.75–150.251,00868
SteersMedium and Large 1Natural660158.75/cwt158.75–158.751,04871
HeifersMedium and Large 1783136.32/cwt134.75–138.501,06746
HeifersMedium and Large 1480146.62/cwt140.00–151.00704209
HeifersMedium and Large 1835133.25/cwt133.25–133.251,11320
SteersMedium and Large 1366192.53/cwt182.50–194.0070551
SteersMedium and Large 1610156.84/cwt155.00–158.0095796
HeifersMedium and Large 1525146.60/cwt137.75–150.00770171
HeifersMedium and Large 1429157.67/cwt150.00–163.50676129
SteersMedium and Large 1573157.28/cwt149.50–162.00901325
SteersMedium and Large 1740146.75/cwt146.75–146.751,08664
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2715128.50/cwt128.50–128.509195
SteersMedium and Large 1850134.00/cwt134.00–134.001,13920
HeifersMedium and Large 1371164.28/cwt154.00–170.0060952
HeifersMedium and Large 1910133.23/cwt132.25–133.751,21252
HeifersMedium and Large 1735141.50/cwt141.50–141.501,04012
HeifersMedium and Large 1574145.29/cwt141.50–148.00834146
SteersMedium and Large 1460177.30/cwt169.00–180.75816137
SteersMedium and Large 1512162.05/cwt157.50–167.00830270
SteersMedium and Large 1430172.52/cwt167.00–180.00742122
SteersMedium and Large 1280181.50/cwt181.50–181.5050812
HeifersMedium and Large 1345169.00/cwt169.00–169.0058312
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2925127.75/cwt127.75–127.751,18210

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.