Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2022-10-27

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 27
● Final29 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
6,667 head
878 vs last sale 5,789 626 vs year ago 6,041 · +10.4%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 400 to 500 lbs 3.00 to 6.00 higher with instances up to 9.00 higher on 450 to 500 lbs, 501 to 650 lbs mostly steady. Heifers 400 to 500 lbs mostly steady, 501 to 600 lbs 3.00 to 6.00 higher. Very good demand for today's large calf offering. Many loads and many, many packages on offer including lots of reputation outfits. Quality was mostly attractive throughout the day. The majority of the calves had full preconditioning, or at least on full round of fall shots. Calves were all off the cow in mostly light to moderate flesh. An active market with a house full of buyers, farmer feeders and a few bull breeders in search of replacements. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, November 3.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $224.15/cwt on 3,576 head.
Average price
$224.15
3,576 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,231
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$208
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$7.22/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+15.53
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1555224.721,2483,294
Medium and Large 1-2478217.501,040282
One grade step is worth $7.22/cwt here — about $208 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 sale3,576 hd
224.15
SD average12 barns · 29,041 hd
208.62
+15.53
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

29 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 1607186.38/cwt184.00–188.001,13135
HeifersMedium and Large 1334215.88/cwt209.00–222.0072146
HeifersMedium and Large 1420205.71/cwt197.00–213.00864266
HeifersMedium and Large 1527199.16/cwt190.00–206.001,050665
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2440185.00/cwt185.00–185.008145
HeifersMedium and Large 1369209.35/cwt207.00–215.0077335
SteersMedium and Large 1-2475218.90/cwt210.00–219.501,04063
SteersMedium and Large 1-2425232.85/cwt226.00–241.0099055
SteersMedium and Large 1565217.70/cwt206.00–222.751,230606
SteersMedium and Large 1-2386234.83/cwt221.00–245.0090634
SteersMedium and Large 1-2328240.95/cwt230.00–245.0079014
SteersMedium and Large 1365263.78/cwt254.00–268.5096380
SteersMedium and Large 1625213.47/cwt206.00–218.001,3341,054
SteersMedium and Large 1474242.85/cwt235.50–255.501,151314
SteersMedium and Large 1419265.17/cwt254.00–266.001,11188
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement575230.00/cwt230.00–230.001,323101
SteersMedium and Large 1658203.00/cwt198.00–205.251,33648
SteersMedium and Large 1Fancy450263.00/cwt263.00–263.001,18442
SteersMedium and Large 1-2582194.87/cwt190.00–200.001,13439
SteersMedium and Large 1-2620190.00/cwt190.00–190.001,1785
SteersMedium and Large 1-2528205.96/cwt193.00–214.001,08772
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2530183.00/cwt183.00–183.0097011
SteersMedium and Large 1527227.52/cwt218.00–237.001,199969
HeifersMedium and Large 1477202.86/cwt195.00–208.00968702
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2363192.77/cwt185.00–200.0070033
HeifersMedium and Large 1573195.99/cwt183.00–202.501,123529
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement507230.00/cwt230.00–230.001,166103
HeifersMedium and Large 1Replacement490235.00/cwt235.00–235.001,152121
SteersMedium and Large 1Fancy565229.50/cwt229.50–229.501,29793

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.