Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2025-12-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-04

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No feeder cattle sale last week due to Thanksgiving, compared to two weeks ago: steers 500 to 649 lbs 20.00 to 30.00 higher. Best test on heifers 500 to 549 lbs steady. Good to very good demand for this nice offering of loads and packages featuring many attractive quality calves. One weaned consignment, weaned 50 days, with the rest of the calves still coming off the cow, most calves had full preconditioning or at least a complete round of fall shots. Flesh condition was mostly light to moderate plus with some fill on the calves at times. An active market assisted by gains in the feeder and live cattle futures again today. The weather has gotten cold and there is quite a bit of snow on the ground in this part of the country. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, December 11.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $460.60/cwt on 1,055 head. That ranks 2 of 8 comparable sales and sits −40.00 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.

Average price

$460.60

1,055 head · 558 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,570

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$262

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

$35.81/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+13.20

vs SD average

+31.45 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	558	461.72	2,579	1,022
Medium and Large 1-2	544	425.91	2,317	33

One grade step is worth $35.81/cwt here — about $262 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale1,055 hd

460.60

—

SD average5 barns · 2,389 hd

447.40

+13.20

National average190 barns · 23,426 hd

429.15

+31.45

This barn, trailing median8 sales

500.61

−40.00

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 1Fleshy	500–550	544	367.50/cwt	367.50–367.50	1,999	45
Steers	Medium and Large 1Full	500–550	527	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,372	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1Full	600–650	640	391.26/cwt	389.00–394.00	2,504	55
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Full	450–500	497	372.50/cwt	372.50–372.50	1,851	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	584	367.08/cwt	353.00–377.00	2,144	204
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	520	395.59/cwt	382.50–407.00	2,057	209
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	518	485.16/cwt	477.00–496.00	2,513	308
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	485	511.53/cwt	490.00–523.00	2,481	253
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	311	505.00/cwt	505.00–505.00	1,571	6
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	414	453.33/cwt	445.00–467.50	1,877	29
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	687	385.05/cwt	369.00–394.00	2,645	308
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	630	372.61/cwt	358.00–388.00	2,347	195
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	450–500	490	477.50/cwt	477.50–477.50	2,340	124
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	671	362.91/cwt	361.00–363.00	2,435	237
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	344	550.53/cwt	547.50–552.50	1,894	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Replacement	550–600	578	417.93/cwt	411.00–432.00	2,416	313
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	425	518.16/cwt	500.00–531.00	2,202	51
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	385	514.86/cwt	505.00–525.00	1,982	13
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	578	451.68/cwt	440.00–470.00	2,611	685
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	732	374.00/cwt	374.00–374.00	2,738	168
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	465	433.63/cwt	415.00–441.00	2,016	73
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	370	465.64/cwt	450.00–487.50	1,723	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	621	418.48/cwt	400.00–427.00	2,599	559
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	435	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	2,088	24
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	544	425.91/cwt	402.50–436.00	2,317	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	496	472.50/cwt	472.50–472.50	2,344	26
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	533	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	1,919	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	754	367.00/cwt	367.00–367.00	2,767	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	500–550	500	419.00/cwt	419.00–419.00	2,095	12

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.

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