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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2026-10-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2026-10-08

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 8

● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Sep 24Oct 8Oct 15 →

Receipts

2,623 head

▲ 1,458 vs last sale 1,165▲ 595 vs year ago 2,028 · +29.3%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No price trend available this week. This was the first test of spring calves for the season. Good to very good demand for calves with best demand seen for load lots, getting packages together into uniform loads today was tricky. All calves came off the cow and most had full preconditioning or at least one good round of shots in the fall, some price spreads due to vaccination programs. A couple loads of spayed heifers and many packages of tested open heifers made up the yearling offering. Very good demand for these green yearlings. An active market for this offering with mostly order buyers in the seats, farmer feeders are busy with harvest. Good weather this week has made harvest progress quickly, many beans are off and some corn harvest has started. A much larger offering of calves expected next Thursday, October 15.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $465.50/cwt on 593 head, down $16.15 from the prior sale. That ranks 3 of 8 comparable sales and sits −2.69 against this barn's trailing median of $468.20.

Average price

$465.50

▼ 16.15 vs prior sale

593 head · 542 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,522

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$184

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

$49.84/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+7.73

vs SD average

+35.14 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	541	466.43	2,525	582
Medium and Large 1-2	562	416.59	2,341	11thin

One grade step is worth $49.84/cwt here — about $184 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.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale593 hd

465.50

—

SD average7 barns · 5,016 hd

457.78

+7.73

National average183 barns · 26,018 hd

430.36

+35.14

This barn, trailing median8 sales

468.20

−2.69

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

8 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $510.18, low $457.44, median $468.20 across 8 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot, as filed

30 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. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers13 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	331	627.50/cwt	627.50–627.50	2,077	17
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	334	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	1,804	7
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	379	614.61/cwt	607.50–642.50	2,329	57
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	385	565.00/cwt	565.00–565.00	2,175	10
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	430	543.22/cwt	525.00–554.00	2,336	71
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	434	510.00/cwt	510.00–510.00	2,213	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	474	508.77/cwt	490.00–520.00	2,412	338
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	484	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,299	14
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	538	468.78/cwt	457.00–487.00	2,522	525
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	546	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	2,266	4
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	571	417.50/cwt	417.50–417.50	2,384	7
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	572	444.78/cwt	431.00–453.00	2,544	57
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	624	435.00/cwt	435.00–435.00	2,714	89
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	339	562.50/cwt	562.50–562.50	1,907	11
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	383	511.14/cwt	497.50–550.00	1,958	96
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	430	493.61/cwt	470.00–527.50	2,123	161
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	435	460.60/cwt	457.50–467.50	2,004	13
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	476	441.74/cwt	427.00–451.00	2,103	206
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	520	433.50/cwt	421.00–442.00	2,254	322
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	539	384.53/cwt	370.00–397.50	2,073	37
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Spayed	711	373.00/cwt	373.00–373.00	2,652	83
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	764	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	2,521	11
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Spayed	791	355.50/cwt	355.50–355.50	2,812	77
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	813	334.00/cwt	334.00–334.00	2,715	33
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	855	317.00/cwt	317.00–317.00	2,710	17
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	921	303.14/cwt	290.00–316.00	2,792	24
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	975	306.59/cwt	304.00–310.00	2,989	23
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,023	301.70/cwt	299.00–302.50	3,086	18
Feeder Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls	450–500	Medium and Large 1	450	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	2,160	9
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	441.00/cwt	441.00–441.00	2,302	10

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.

South Dakota feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, SD

Thu Oct 8, 2026

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Sioux Falls, SD (LS-SF)

Receipts 2,623Last week 1,165Year ago 2,028

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	1000–1050	1,023	299.00–302.50	301.70

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	300–350	339	562.50	562.50
96	350–400	383	497.50–550.00	511.14
161	400–450	430	470.00–527.50	493.61
206	450–500	476	427.00–451.00	441.74
322	500–550	520	421.00–442.00	433.50
11	750–800	764	330.00	330.00
33	800–850	813	334.00	334.00
17	850–900	855	317.00	317.00
24	900–950	921	290.00–316.00	303.14
23	950–1000	975	304.00–310.00	306.59

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
83	700–750	711	373.00	373.00
77	750–800	791	355.50	355.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	400–450	435	457.50–467.50	460.60
37	500–550	539	370.00–397.50	384.53

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	450	480.00	480.00
10	500–550	522	441.00	441.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	300–350	331	627.50	627.50
57	350–400	379	607.50–642.50	614.61
71	400–450	430	525.00–554.00	543.22
338	450–500	474	490.00–520.00	508.77
525	500–550	538	457.00–487.00	468.78
57	550–600	572	431.00–453.00	444.78
89	600–650	624	435.00	435.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	334	540.00	540.00
10	350–400	385	565.00	565.00
6	400–450	434	510.00	510.00
14	450–500	484	475.00	475.00
4	500–550	546	415.00	415.00
7	550–600	571	417.50	417.50

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.