Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-10-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-09

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: a very light yearling offering with no good comparisons to last week's larger offering. Best test on calves was on steers 500 to 549 lbs mostly steady. Good to very good demand for calves this week. Just a couple load lots in today's offering with the majority of calves selling in packages. Calves were mostly attractive in quality and all off the cow in mostly light flesh condition. Shot records varied quite a bit and although good, complete preconditioning has always been very important, buyers are being more selective than ever on calves without a rock solid shot record. An active market with the most activity on load lots, both buyers a few farmer feeders in the seats today. Bean harvest is progressing quickly and some corn harvest has started. Dry weather is making good harvest conditions. A much larger run of calves for the next feeder cattle sale, Thursday, October 16.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $487.17/cwt on 522 head. That ranks 4 of 8 comparable sales and sits −13.44 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.

Average price

$487.17

522 head · 545 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,655

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$221

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

$12.33/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.79

vs SD average

+41.32 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	545	487.33	2,658	515
Medium and Large 1-2	513	475.00	2,437	7thin

One grade step is worth $12.33/cwt here — about $221 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 sale522 hd

487.17

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SD average6 barns · 2,222 hd

487.96

−0.79

National average181 barns · 23,254 hd

445.85

+41.32

This barn, trailing median8 sales

500.61

−13.44

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

26 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 1	300–350	326	604.92/cwt	600.00–610.00	1,972	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	370	559.63/cwt	559.00–560.00	2,071	39
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	795	336.50/cwt	336.50–336.50	2,675	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	833	339.50/cwt	339.50–339.50	2,828	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	465	464.37/cwt	454.00–479.00	2,159	162
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	515	439.01/cwt	429.00–448.00	2,261	356
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	726	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,868	16
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	520	503.11/cwt	486.00–517.50	2,616	253
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fancy	400–450	402	599.00/cwt	599.00–599.00	2,408	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	603	433.00/cwt	433.00–433.00	2,611	18
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	344	651.99/cwt	635.00–659.00	2,243	35
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,003	329.00/cwt	329.00–329.00	3,300	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	485	532.46/cwt	529.50–546.00	2,582	204
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	570	472.10/cwt	458.00–481.50	2,691	262
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	716	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,399	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	427	529.19/cwt	500.00–535.00	2,260	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	850–900	878	340.25/cwt	340.25–340.25	2,987	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	420	505.55/cwt	485.00–519.00	2,123	137
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	432	445.92/cwt	445.00–447.50	1,926	13
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	300–350	339	575.00/cwt	575.00–575.00	1,949	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	395	592.67/cwt	587.50–597.50	2,341	31
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	513	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,437	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	360	633.79/cwt	629.00–639.00	2,282	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	440	550.90/cwt	544.00–572.50	2,424	84
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	375	521.77/cwt	520.00–525.00	1,957	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	541	414.82/cwt	397.50–422.50	2,244	68

How this sale compares

South Dakota weighted averages

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