Name: Sioux Falls Regional Livestock livestock auction prices — 2024-11-25
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-11-25

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Steer and heifer calves sold with higher undertones, comparison too narrow. Yearling feeder steers sold with higher undertones, heifers not well compared. Very good demand for steer and heifer calves, this week's calf offering was more attractive, overall quality was better and buyers were willing to push the market higher to get these calves bought. Very good demand for a really fancy set of 6 loads of black hided, moderate fleshed yearling steers. The market was very active on the yearlings. The cash fed cattle market at 186.00 last week, but cattle feeders were ready to compete heavily on yearlings that looked like they would gain efficiently.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $321.62/cwt on 127 head. That ranks 1 of 28 comparable sales and sits −164.84 against this barn's trailing median of $486.46.

Average price

$321.62

127 head · 548 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,763

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$96

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

$30.05/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−11.14

vs SD average

−2.16 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	544	327.06	1,780	104
Medium and Large 1-2	567	297.01	1,684	23

One grade step is worth $30.05/cwt here — about $96 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

28 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $518.21, low $447.31, median $486.46 across 28 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 sale127 hd

321.62

—

SD average8 barns · 4,808 hd

332.75

−11.14

National average38 barns · 6,986 hd

323.78

−2.16

This barn, trailing median28 sales

486.46

−164.84

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

40 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.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium 1	650–700	656	242.00/cwt	242.00–242.00	1,588	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	708	232.50/cwt	232.50–232.50	1,646	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	567	297.01/cwt	294.00–301.00	1,684	23
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	391	337.50/cwt	337.50–337.50	1,320	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	700–750	724	256.00/cwt	256.00–256.00	1,853	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	467	305.80/cwt	300.00–325.00	1,428	38
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	428	341.73/cwt	330.00–350.00	1,463	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	664	284.58/cwt	264.00–293.00	1,890	41
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	577	310.25/cwt	297.00–316.00	1,790	44
Beef/Dairy Heifers	Medium and Large 2-3	600–650	623	220.00/cwt	220.00–220.00	1,371	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	545	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,526	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	741	248.11/cwt	247.00–248.50	1,838	111
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	520	339.39/cwt	331.00–346.00	1,765	60
Steers	Medium 1	850–900	856	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	1,977	6
Heifers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,038	211.00/cwt	211.00–211.00	2,190	34
Steers	Large 1-2	1050–1100	1,086	220.50/cwt	220.50–220.50	2,395	5
Steers	Large 1	1000–1050	1,024	241.50/cwt	241.50–241.50	2,473	331
Heifers	Medium 1	800–850	802	221.00/cwt	221.00–221.00	1,772	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	704	273.97/cwt	264.00–276.00	1,929	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	471	356.45/cwt	342.50–370.00	1,679	40
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	481	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,611	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	512	299.54/cwt	290.00–305.00	1,534	30
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	283.04/cwt	275.00–287.00	1,625	27
Steers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	408	392.47/cwt	390.00–395.00	1,601	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	622	288.54/cwt	283.00–291.00	1,795	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	370	402.38/cwt	400.00–405.00	1,489	16
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	607	283.00/cwt	283.00–283.00	1,718	11
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	674	254.25/cwt	247.50–259.00	1,714	29
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	500–550	539	272.50/cwt	272.50–272.50	1,469	18
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	361	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,354	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	850–900	850	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	2,040	8
Beef/Dairy Heifers	Medium and Large 2	700–750	701	232.00/cwt	232.00–232.00	1,626	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	300–350	322	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,417	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	782	256.82/cwt	246.00–267.00	2,008	51
Heifers	Medium 1	750–800	773	232.00/cwt	232.00–232.00	1,793	10
Steers	Medium 1	450–500	474	307.30/cwt	305.00–315.00	1,457	18
Steers	Medium 1	600–650	629	247.00/cwt	247.00–247.00	1,554	10
Steers	Medium 1	750–800	774	243.41/cwt	227.50–255.00	1,884	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	900–950	940	221.29/cwt	221.25–221.50	2,080	68
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	800–850	835	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	1,870	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.

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

Sioux Falls Regional Cattle Auction - Worthing, SD

Mon Nov 25, 2024

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

Receipts 1,788Last week 4,036Year ago 2,486

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	650–700	656	242.00	242.00
10	750–800	773	232.00	232.00
5	800–850	802	221.00	221.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	350–400	391	337.50	337.50
8	500–550	545	280.00	280.00
8	700–750	708	232.50	232.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	361	375.00	375.00
27	400–450	428	330.00–350.00	341.73
38	450–500	467	300.00–325.00	305.80
30	500–550	512	290.00–305.00	299.54
27	550–600	574	275.00–287.00	283.04
11	600–650	607	283.00	283.00
29	650–700	674	247.50–259.00	254.25
111	700–750	741	247.00–248.50	248.11
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
34	1000–1050	1,038	211.00	211.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
18	500–550	539	272.50	272.50
12	800–850	835	224.00	224.00
68	900–950	940	221.25–221.50	221.29
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
12	450–500	481	335.00	335.00
23	550–600	567	294.00–301.00	297.01
10	700–750	724	256.00	256.00
8	850–900	850	240.00	240.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	300–350	322	440.00	440.00
16	350–400	370	400.00–405.00	402.38
8	400–450	408	390.00–395.00	392.47
40	450–500	471	342.50–370.00	356.45
60	500–550	520	331.00–346.00	339.39
44	550–600	577	297.00–316.00	310.25
67	600–650	622	283.00–291.00	288.54
41	650–700	664	264.00–293.00	284.58
30	700–750	704	264.00–276.00	273.97
51	750–800	782	246.00–267.00	256.82
Steers — Medium 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	450–500	474	305.00–315.00	307.30
10	600–650	629	247.00	247.00
12	750–800	774	227.50–255.00	243.41
6	850–900	856	231.00	231.00
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	1050–1100	1,086	220.50	220.50
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
331	1000–1050	1,024	241.50	241.50
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
5	600–650	623	220.00	220.00
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	700–750	701	232.00	232.00

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.

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