Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2024-11-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-21

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 400 to 449 lbs and 500 to 549 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 20.00 higher on 500 to 549 lbs, 450 to 499 lbs 4.00 to 9.00 higher, and 550 to 599 lbs 10.00 to 13.00 higher. Heifers 450 to 549 lbs 10.00 to 15.00 higher, other weight classes of heifers not well compared. Good to very good demand for calves today with load lots from reputation outfits seeing the best demand. A few more weaned packages this week, mostly weaned 30 or so days, but the majority of the offering still coming off the cow. Quality mostly average to attractive with quite a few colored cattle in the mix. Mostly light to moderate flesh on the cattle. An active market with buyers and farmer feeders aggressively trying to fill pens, there will be very few opportunities to get cattle next week. Much cooler and more seasonal weather this week with some snow on the ground. No feeder cattle next week due to Thanksgiving, next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, December 5. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $341.16/cwt on 1,048 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −159.44 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.

Average price

$341.16

1,048 head · 542 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,848

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$125

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$17.72/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+14.06

vs SD average

+31.90 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	542	341.72	1,852	1,015
Medium and Large 1-2	533	324.00	1,727	33

One grade step is worth $17.72/cwt here — about $125 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

8 sales

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 sale1,048 hd

341.16

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SD average8 barns · 6,503 hd

327.11

+14.06

National average182 barns · 24,645 hd

309.26

+31.90

This barn, trailing median8 sales

500.61

−159.44

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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	400–450	428	361.00/cwt	361.00–361.00	1,545	43
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,020	233.50/cwt	233.50–233.50	2,382	23
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	562	297.35/cwt	284.00–304.50	1,671	194
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	522	315.26/cwt	306.00–329.00	1,646	275
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	478	330.23/cwt	314.00–343.00	1,578	367
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	389	365.51/cwt	356.00–379.50	1,422	78
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	533	324.00/cwt	324.00–324.00	1,727	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	343	437.00/cwt	437.00–437.00	1,499	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	434	386.82/cwt	377.50–393.00	1,679	179
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	372	367.50/cwt	367.50–367.50	1,367	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	617	314.11/cwt	307.00–323.25	1,938	271
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	329.04/cwt	317.50–334.00	1,889	406
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	387	422.98/cwt	400.00–426.00	1,637	109
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	670	295.32/cwt	279.00–303.00	1,979	38
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	528	343.35/cwt	330.00–347.00	1,813	433
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	525	292.36/cwt	284.00–296.00	1,535	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	437	349.09/cwt	347.50–362.50	1,526	36
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	335	333.00/cwt	333.00–333.00	1,116	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	500–550	503	366.96/cwt	365.00–370.00	1,846	176
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	477	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,574	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	323	462.35/cwt	457.00–480.00	1,493	48
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	332	358.75/cwt	352.50–371.00	1,191	21
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	482	377.53/cwt	367.00–390.00	1,820	230
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	386	334.39/cwt	332.50–340.00	1,291	41
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	805	233.50/cwt	233.50–233.50	1,880	22
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	608	279.31/cwt	272.50–283.00	1,698	108
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	498	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,394	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	418	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,296	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	419	341.59/cwt	330.00–349.00	1,431	83

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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