Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2023-08-24

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Aug 24
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
2,626 head
78 vs last sale 2,548 325 vs year ago 2,301 · +14.1%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale this summer so an accurate price trend can not be established. Good to very good demand for this large offering of yearlings selling in strings, loads, and packages, including many packages of tested open heifers, all coming off grass. Flesh mostly light to moderate with some fill seen on the cattle at times. Quality mostly average to attractive today. An active market with many buyers in the seats. Another warm and humid day today with this type of weather making haying and harvesting difficult, wheat harvest has been slow. Watch local listings for the next feeder cattle sale.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $254.75/cwt on 1,481 head.
Average price
$254.75
1,481 head · 847 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,158
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$552
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Large 1
$65.40/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+4.58
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2600291.401,74994
Medium and Large 1862252.622,1771,369
Large 11,018226.002,30118thin
One grade step is worth $65.40/cwt here — about −$552 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 sale1,481 hd
254.75
SD average6 barns · 5,458 hd
250.18
+4.58
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

23 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 1895246.87/cwt244.50–247.502,20977
SteersMedium and Large 1791265.77/cwt252.50–267.502,10292
SteersLarge 11,018226.00/cwt226.00–226.002,30118
HeifersMedium and Large 1Spayed699259.00/cwt259.00–259.001,81093
HeifersMedium and Large 1731249.81/cwt242.00–255.501,82665
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2849223.50/cwt223.50–223.501,89812
HeifersMedium and Large 1874234.81/cwt228.50–239.752,052369
HeifersMedium and Large 1774247.40/cwt242.00–251.501,915272
SteersMedium and Large 1712272.00/cwt272.00–272.001,93718
SteersMedium and Large 1-2689270.00/cwt270.00–270.001,8608
SteersMedium and Large 1-2590295.79/cwt291.00–297.001,74550
SteersMedium and Large 1-2846241.00/cwt241.00–241.002,0399
SteersMedium and Large 1639287.00/cwt287.00–287.001,83415
SteersMedium and Large 1-2511306.42/cwt305.00–307.001,56627
SteersMedium and Large 1914246.77/cwt240.50–253.252,255668
SteersMedium and Large 1825254.34/cwt248.75–265.502,098462
SteersMedium and Large 1652292.48/cwt287.00–294.001,90737
HeifersMedium and Large 1968228.01/cwt226.00–235.002,20792
HeifersMedium and Large 1816239.22/cwt236.00–240.001,95236
HeifersMedium and Large 1671247.43/cwt245.00–250.001,66033
HeifersMedium and Large 1907234.75/cwt234.75–234.752,12923
HeifersMedium and Large 1541266.00/cwt266.00–266.001,43911
HeifersMedium and Large 1632249.00/cwt249.00–249.001,5745

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.