Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2021-11-11

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Nov 11
● Final34 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
6,924 head
1,036 vs last sale 7,960 484 vs year ago 6,440 · +7.5%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steer calves 450 to 700 lbs 2.00 to 5.00 lower except 500 to 550 lbs mostly steady. Heifer calves 400 to 600 lbs mostly steady, instances up to 6.00 lower on 500 to 550 lbs. Good demand for today's large calf offering with best demand seen for reputation calves sold in loads. Many attractive calves to choose from today, most in light to moderate flesh and off the cow. As with previous weeks, calves without full preconditioning, or at least a full round of fall shots, see light to moderate demand. An active market with many buyers as well as some farmer feeders and bull breeders attending the sale. A high wind advisory for much of the state today with some areas seeing some snow. Travel conditions for high profile vehicles such as cattle trucks are not ideal and many calves will be waiting out this bout of winter weather at the sale barn. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, November 18.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $177.40/cwt on 3,652 head.
Average price
$177.40
3,652 head · 557 lb average
Value per head Derived
$988
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$150
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$9.86/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.97
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1563178.491,0053,247
Medium and Large 1-2507168.63855405
One grade step is worth $9.86/cwt here — about $150 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 sale3,652 hd
177.40
SD average9 barns · 24,691 hd
171.43
+5.97
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

34 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
HeifersMedium and Large 1340179.00/cwt179.00–179.0060911
HeifersMedium and Large 1395174.95/cwt172.00–177.0069156
HeifersMedium and Large 1618146.60/cwt142.00–151.00906111
HeifersMedium and Large 1422167.62/cwt162.00–174.00707167
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2472145.12/cwt144.00–147.0068513
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2600140.00/cwt140.00–140.0084010
SteersMedium and Large 1-2426179.27/cwt179.00–180.0076452
SteersMedium and Large 1619169.27/cwt163.00–174.751,048664
SteersMedium and Large 1-2340194.00/cwt194.00–194.0066029
SteersMedium and Large 1-2483169.29/cwt168.00–171.0081867
SteersMedium and Large 1377210.62/cwt207.00–212.0079474
SteersMedium and Large 1-2518166.24/cwt163.00–169.0086172
SteersMedium and Large 1-2575160.32/cwt156.50–166.50922130
SteersMedium and Large 1-2660148.00/cwt148.00–148.0097712
SteersMedium and Large 1480187.82/cwt181.00–195.00902328
SteersMedium and Large 1436204.10/cwt195.00–209.25890161
SteersMedium and Large 1665166.16/cwt155.50–169.001,105526
SteersMedium and Large 1-2380189.47/cwt189.00–191.0072024
HeifersMedium and Large 1518150.43/cwt147.00–158.00779454
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement629160.64/cwt160.00–161.001,01059
SteersMedium and Large 1566174.77/cwt169.00–181.75989769
SteersMedium and Large 1760152.00/cwt152.00–152.001,1555
SteersMedium and Large 1Fancy495204.50/cwt204.50–204.501,012118
SteersMedium and Large 1Fancy500204.50/cwt204.50–204.501,023119
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2364154.31/cwt152.00–156.0056212
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2588136.38/cwt135.00–138.5080222
SteersMedium and Large 1-2623151.00/cwt143.00–154.0094119
SteersMedium and Large 1527178.23/cwt172.50–185.00939483
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2535142.42/cwt139.00–144.5076236
HeifersMedium and Large 1473159.95/cwt153.50–166.00757295
HeifersMedium and Large 1578148.30/cwt139.50–156.50857329
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2434156.57/cwt156.00–157.0068018
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement465177.00/cwt177.00–177.00823240
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement518169.46/cwt166.00–172.00878387

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.