Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2024-01-11

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 11
● Final21 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
1,033 head
3,283 vs last sale 4,316 1,957 vs year ago 2,990 · 65.5%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in recent weeks so a price trend can not be established. Moderate to good demand for a light offering today featuring a couple of loads and packages. Quality varied quite a bit, from plain to attractive. The majority of the calves were weaned and in moderate to moderate plus flesh condition. A moderate to active market with most activity on loads. less buyers attending the sale than normally seen. Very cold temperatures and windchill today with these conditions continuing through the weekend. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, January 18 featuring Red and Black Angus Replacement heifers.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $261.52/cwt on 568 head.
Average price
$261.52
568 head · 705 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,844
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$242
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1
$46.00/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+6.77
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1707263.501,864511
Medium and Large 1-2678245.721,66653
Large 1746217.501,6234thin
One grade step is worth $46.00/cwt here — about $242 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 sale568 hd
261.52
SD average8 barns · 13,553 hd
254.74
+6.77
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

21 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 1469312.50/cwt312.50–312.501,46611
SteersMedium and Large 1870217.00/cwt217.00–217.001,88863
SteersMedium and Large 1-2673248.34/cwt246.00–253.001,67124
SteersMedium and Large 1-2587270.00/cwt270.00–270.001,58516
SteersMedium and Large 1983216.00/cwt216.00–216.002,12355
SteersLarge 1746217.50/cwt217.50–217.501,6234
SteersMedium and Large 1661275.06/cwt264.00–279.751,818204
SteersMedium and Large 1522303.17/cwt290.00–307.001,58350
SteersMedium and Large 1603292.00/cwt292.00–292.001,76136
HeifersMedium and Large 1576264.58/cwt259.00–266.001,52448
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2566225.98/cwt221.00–237.001,27923
HeifersMedium and Large 1518273.04/cwt260.00–286.001,41461
SteersMedium and Large 1-2800211.00/cwt211.00–211.001,68813
SteersMedium and Large 1564290.51/cwt288.00–293.001,63818
SteersMedium and Large 1739252.00/cwt252.00–252.001,86274
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2694207.48/cwt202.00–212.001,44022
HeifersMedium and Large 1613249.00/cwt249.00–249.001,52628
HeifersMedium and Large 1475261.52/cwt254.00–270.001,24226
HeifersMedium and Large 1674227.00/cwt227.00–227.001,5304
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy830187.00/cwt187.00–187.001,55242
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy731208.00/cwt208.00–208.001,52032

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.