Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2024-11-07

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Nov 7
● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
5,179 head
322 vs last sale 5,501 152 vs year ago 5,331 · 2.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 400 to 449 lbs 15.00 to 20.00 higher, 450 to 599 lbs 3.00 to 5.00 higher, 600 to 649 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 6.00 lower. Heifers 400 to 549 lbs 7.00 to 12.00 higher, 550 to 599 lbs mostly steady. Very good demand for this large offering of attractive quality calves. Many load lots and packages to choose from, all coming off the cow in light to moderate flesh. Most of the calves had two good rounds of shots. Quite a few colored calves offered and many times met with equal demand and price to blacks. An active market with a full house of buyers, farmer feeders and bull breeders all eager to own cattle. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, November 14.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $328.79/cwt on 1,278 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits 171.81 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.
Average price
$328.79
1,278 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,806
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
+10.05
vs SD average
+26.94 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1549328.791,8061,278
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

8 sales
524497470443median 500.6101/0801/2903/0504/1604/23
Steers 500–600 lb: high $510.18, low $457.44, median $500.61 across 8 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale1,278 hd
328.79
SD average9 barns · 8,047 hd
318.74
+10.05
National average187 barns · 26,509 hd
301.85
+26.94
This barn, trailing median8 sales
500.61
−171.81
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

28 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 1500–550515301.42/cwt287.00–307.501,552256
HeifersMedium and Large 1400–450420346.89/cwt332.00–354.001,457429
HeifersMedium and Large 1450–500482319.62/cwt312.50–333.001,541642
SteersMedium and Large 1350–400373401.88/cwt391.00–410.001,49961
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700655304.25/cwt304.25–304.251,99390
SteersMedium and Large 1-2400–450440351.71/cwt345.00–365.001,548125
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650632245.00/cwt245.00–245.001,54813
HeifersMedium and Large 1300–350336355.81/cwt347.50–362.501,19638
HeifersMedium and Large 1350–400365357.97/cwt350.00–370.001,30756
SteersMedium and Large 1500–550524334.35/cwt317.00–342.001,752608
SteersMedium and Large 1550–600573324.03/cwt308.00–329.501,857660
SteersMedium and Large 1450–500478357.65/cwt344.00–369.001,710686
HeifersMedium and Large 1Thin Fleshed300–350343375.00/cwt375.00–375.001,2868
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy500–550513305.00/cwt305.00–305.001,56510
SteersMedium and Large 1-2300–350332361.20/cwt359.50–365.001,19916
SteersMedium and Large 1-2450–500482334.44/cwt327.50–336.001,61271
SteersMedium and Large 1400–450420403.36/cwt390.00–410.501,694297
SteersMedium and Large 1300–350338407.50/cwt407.50–407.501,3775
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2400–450416322.50/cwt322.50–322.501,34220
HeifersMedium and Large 1550–600564294.35/cwt286.00–296.001,660327
SteersMedium and Large 1600–650627307.37/cwt304.25–310.001,927239
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650603280.00/cwt280.00–280.001,68811
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2300–350321335.00/cwt335.00–335.001,07513
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2500–550519281.15/cwt280.00–282.001,45936
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2450–500499306.50/cwt292.00–308.001,52953
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2350–400380342.37/cwt341.00–343.001,30119
SteersMedium and Large 1Fleshy650–700662282.00/cwt282.00–282.001,86712
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750714262.00/cwt262.00–262.001,87111

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.