Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2026-01-08

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Jan 8
● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025
Receipts
1,246 head
3,050 vs last sale 4,296 1,701 vs year ago 2,947 · 57.7%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First feeder cattle sale in recent weeks so no price trend is available. A light offering of feeders today with load lots seeing very good demand and packages selling with moderate to good demand, it was difficult to make a load from packages. An attractive offering of home raised, weaned, and vaccinated calves. Flesh condition was mostly moderate to moderate plus, a few calves in heavy flesh. An active market with a nice crowd of buyers and some farmer feeders in the seats. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, January 15, featuring Red Angus replacement heifers.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $497.92/cwt on 183 head. That ranks 4 of 8 comparable sales and sits 2.69 against this barn's trailing median of $500.61.
Average price
$497.92
183 head · 550 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,736
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
single grade reported
vs the market
+0.56
vs SD average
+31.59 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1550497.922,736183
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 sale183 hd
497.92
SD average4 barns · 1,379 hd
497.36
+0.56
National average195 barns · 28,890 hd
466.33
+31.59
This barn, trailing median8 sales
500.61
−2.69
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

17 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
SteersMedium and Large 1600–650615469.90/cwt446.00–481.002,890283
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750707413.21/cwt387.50–414.002,921169
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700676425.19/cwt402.50–432.252,874118
SteersMedium and Large 1550–600570481.96/cwt455.00–484.002,747105
SteersMedium and Large 1750–800761379.02/cwt350.00–387.002,884100
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Fleshy600–650624387.50/cwt387.50–387.502,41817
HeifersMedium and Large 1700–750725355.48/cwt350.00–366.002,57740
SteersMedium and Large 1-2600–650634417.00/cwt417.00–417.002,6445
SteersMedium and Large 1500–550522519.40/cwt501.00–523.002,71178
SteersMedium and Large 1850–900854353.00/cwt353.00–353.003,01563
SteersMedium and Large 1950–1000993332.25/cwt332.25–332.253,29960
HeifersMedium and Large 1800–850838328.00/cwt328.00–328.002,74965
HeifersMedium and Large 1550–600566415.00/cwt415.00–415.002,34920
HeifersMedium and Large 1450–500453450.00/cwt450.00–450.002,03914
HeifersMedium and Large 1500–550507460.00/cwt460.00–460.002,33213
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700666370.00/cwt370.00–370.002,4645
HeifersMedium and Large 1600–650604397.50/cwt397.50–397.502,4015

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.