Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2022-01-27

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 27
● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
2,743 head
2,519 vs last sale 5,262 2,041 vs year ago 4,784 · 42.7%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: roughly half as many feeder cattle as last week with many weight classes not well tested today for comparison. Best test on steers 600 to 650 lbs mostly 4.00 to 5.00 lower. Best test on heifers 550 to 600 lbs 3.00 to 4.00 lower, 601 to 700 lbs mostly steady. Moderate to good demand for today's offering featuring a handful of loads and many packages. Quality varied, from plain to attractive, overall quality less attractive than last week. Flesh similar, from light to some moderate plus. A moderate to active market for today's offering with mostly order buyers and a few farmer feeders interested in calves today. A full house of producers for the bull sale and bred sale after the feeder cattle sale. No sale next week, next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, February 10.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $159.57/cwt on 1,184 head.
Average price
$159.57
1,184 head · 634 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,011
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$214
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$13.12/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+2.16
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1636159.851,0161,159
Medium and Large 1-2546146.7380225
One grade step is worth $13.12/cwt here — about $214 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 sale1,184 hd
159.57
SD average8 barns · 10,823 hd
157.42
+2.16
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

26 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 1Fleshy460165.00/cwt165.00–165.007594
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy690144.00/cwt144.00–144.0099474
HeifersMedium and Large 1416175.00/cwt172.50–177.0072817
HeifersMedium and Large 1575167.12/cwt160.00–172.00961275
HeifersMedium and Large 1779143.83/cwt139.00–144.751,12031
HeifersMedium and Large 1525173.39/cwt164.00–178.5091052
SteersMedium and Large 1415207.00/cwt207.00–207.008598
SteersMedium and Large 1522204.50/cwt204.50–204.501,06733
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy735161.50/cwt161.50–161.501,18734
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy480189.00/cwt189.00–189.009075
SteersMedium and Large 1775159.15/cwt157.00–161.501,233159
SteersMedium and Large 1578187.76/cwt185.50–191.001,08573
SteersMedium and Large 1623181.44/cwt175.50–186.501,130213
SteersMedium and Large 1710175.50/cwt175.50–175.501,24673
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2650145.50/cwt145.50–145.509468
HeifersMedium and Large 1630160.59/cwt153.25–169.001,012168
SteersMedium and Large 1873152.23/cwt151.25–153.251,329123
SteersMedium and Large 1675172.28/cwt164.00–175.501,163225
HeifersMedium and Large 1668159.17/cwt152.00–164.501,063255
HeifersMedium and Large 1489172.86/cwt169.00–174.5084591
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2531148.23/cwt144.00–155.0078710
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2450146.00/cwt146.00–146.006577
SteersMedium and Large 1Full560179.00/cwt179.00–179.001,00218
SteersMedium and Large 1-2555177.00/cwt177.00–177.0098220
HeifersMedium and Large 1805141.64/cwt140.50–151.001,14074
HeifersMedium and Large 1737150.55/cwt143.50–158.001,110118

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.