Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-04-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-03

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in recent weeks so a price trend can not be established. Many packages and just a handful of loads made up today's offering with quite a few consignments of high quality, home raised heifers which were sent back to the country to make cows. Very good demand for these heifers, moderate to good demand for remaining packages and loads as quality on these varied quite a bit today. Quite a few green, light cattle which could go to grass and buyers are still competitive on these cattle. Flesh condition moderate to moderate plus overall with very few finishing type cattle in today's offering. An active market despite a negative day on both feeder and live cattle futures. The area received heavy, wet snow and some rain mixed in over the last few days, much welcome moisture for this dry country. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, April 17, featuring fall calves.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $374.64/cwt on 290 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −125.97 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.

Average price

$374.64

290 head · 575 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,154

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$233

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

$27.17/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−4.66

vs SD average

+5.63 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	577	377.64	2,181	258
Medium and Large 1-2	556	350.47	1,947	32

One grade step is worth $27.17/cwt here — about $233 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 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 sale290 hd

374.64

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SD average6 barns · 1,210 hd

379.30

−4.66

National average168 barns · 11,835 hd

369.01

+5.63

This barn, trailing median8 sales

500.61

−125.97

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

33 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 1Fleshy	750–800	780	268.00/cwt	268.00–268.00	2,090	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	466	367.70/cwt	367.50–368.00	1,713	15
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	635	315.72/cwt	305.00–318.00	2,005	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	737	286.83/cwt	276.00–295.00	2,114	156
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	663	302.55/cwt	297.00–307.00	2,006	158
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	564	336.29/cwt	320.00–340.00	1,897	112
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	520	352.50/cwt	352.50–352.50	1,833	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	711	330.42/cwt	316.00–333.00	2,349	94
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	677	327.35/cwt	320.00–341.00	2,216	164
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	338	452.30/cwt	440.00–460.00	1,529	28
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	532	392.49/cwt	385.00–404.00	2,088	28
Steers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	899	273.50/cwt	273.50–273.50	2,459	32
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	460	414.18/cwt	402.50–421.00	1,905	59
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	577	349.25/cwt	349.00–350.00	2,015	20
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	680	312.35/cwt	305.00–318.00	2,124	60
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	829	272.00/cwt	272.00–272.00	2,255	21
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	434	386.56/cwt	380.00–390.00	1,678	27
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	800–850	823	291.50/cwt	291.50–291.50	2,399	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	448	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	1,803	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	583	375.83/cwt	360.00–380.50	2,191	230
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	496	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,885	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	543	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,792	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	856	264.12/cwt	259.50–267.00	2,261	62
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	623	285.65/cwt	282.00–289.00	1,780	32
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	420	430.00/cwt	430.00–430.00	1,806	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	630	348.51/cwt	329.00–353.00	2,196	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	796	293.69/cwt	289.00–304.00	2,338	51
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	766	280.90/cwt	279.00–281.00	2,152	77
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	727	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,963	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	580	312.50/cwt	312.50–312.50	1,813	26
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	750–800	768	298.49/cwt	292.50–304.00	2,292	66
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	950–1000	999	259.50/cwt	259.50–259.50	2,592	60
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	828	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	2,236	12

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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