Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2020-03-23

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Mar 23
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Feeder Cattle receipts
502 head
26 vs last sale 476 502 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
30 head
55 vs last sale 85 30 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A very limited offering of feeder cattle this week. 800-950 lbs feeder steers 1.00 higher compared to two weeks ago. Only comparison for feeder heifers was a load of 760 lbs that sold 15.00 higher than last week. Good demand for this light offering, a lighter buyer attendance but the market was very active. As the CME cattle futures contracts opened limit higher, and held there throughout the sale, after last week's friendly Cattle On Feed Report cattle feeders were ready to buy some feeder cattle. The quality was very attractive as there a couple of long strings of steers and heifers in light to moderate flesh, one string of 300 steers and heifers offered in full load lots. Slaughter cows steady to 3.00 higher compared to Wednesday's sale, bulls recent price comparison available.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $131.13/cwt on 346 head.
Average price
$131.13
346 head · 849 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,113
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$412
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Large 1
$62.67/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+9.14
vs SD average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2430176.007575thin
Medium and Large 1850130.941,113332
Large 11,031113.331,1689thin
One grade step is worth $62.67/cwt here — about −$412 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale346 hd
131.13
SD average5 barns · 1,572 hd
122.00
+9.14
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
BullsAverage1,70194.681,6115thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,45065.6195111
CowsBoner 80-85%High1,37562.028538thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,19158.236936thin

Every lot, as filed

23 lots · USDA AMS · Sioux Falls Regional Cattle Auction - Worthing, 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 1569151.00/cwt151.00–151.0085910
Bulls1,71291.82/cwt89.50–93.001,5723
CowsBoner 80-85%1,43067.50/cwt67.50–67.509651
CowsBoner 80-85%1,36761.24/cwt60.00–65.008377
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,50560.35/cwt58.00–61.509085
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,40470.00/cwt70.00–70.009836
SteersMedium and Large 1829131.50/cwt131.50–131.501,090141
SteersMedium and Large 1-2430176.00/cwt176.00–176.007575
SteersLarge 11,067112.00/cwt112.00–112.001,1953
SteersLarge 11,013114.00/cwt114.00–114.001,1556
HeifersMedium and Large 1686127.50/cwt127.50–127.5087512
HeifersMedium and Large 1763124.00/cwt124.00–124.0094662
SteersMedium and Large 1861123.00/cwt123.00–123.001,0594
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy929106.00/cwt106.00–106.009855
Bulls1,68598.97/cwt97.00–100.501,6682
SteersMedium and Large 1713140.10/cwt138.00–141.0099946
SteersMedium and Large 1942125.83/cwt115.00–126.251,185131
CowsLean 85-90%1,06548.00/cwt48.00–48.005111
CowsLean 85-90%1,21660.27/cwt59.00–61.507335
HeifersMedium and Large 1803111.00/cwt111.00–111.008914
HeifersMedium and Large 1867118.00/cwt118.00–118.001,0236
HeifersMedium and Large 1521144.00/cwt144.00–144.0075010
HeifersMedium and Large 1638136.00/cwt136.00–136.0086811

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.