Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2026-03-16

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Mar 16
● Final18 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Receipts
786 head
621 vs last sale 1,407 1,667 vs year ago 2,453 · 68.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Too few comparable weights of feeder steers and heifers to make a good comparison. A lighter offering this week as a severe winter storm moved across the area over the weekend making for impossible travel conditions throughout the day on Sunday. A few long strings of yearling steers and heifers, offered in full loads and multiple load lots, along with a few small consignments of lighter cattle. The market was pretty active for the packages of light cattle. The market on the yearlings was moderately active, cattle feeders are feeling pressured from new resistance in the fat cattle market and need to buy cattle with lower breakeven prices. Flesh condition of yearlings moderate to heavy.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $431.74/cwt on 19 head, up $12.00 from the prior sale. That ranks 16 of 28 comparable sales and sits +1.39 against this barn's trailing median of $430.34.
Average price
$431.74
12.00 vs prior sale
19 head · 531 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,294
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$15
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$13.94/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.91
vs SD average
+15.62 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1528433.942,29116thin
Medium and Large 1-2549420.002,3063thin
One grade step is worth $13.94/cwt here — about −$15 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

28 sales
498459420381median 430.3412/1502/0203/2306/0108/17
Heifers 500–600 lb: high $484.12, low $394.88, median $430.34 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 sale19 hd
431.74
SD average6 barns · 494 hd
427.83
+3.91
National average164 barns · 8,069 hd
416.12
+15.62
This barn, trailing median28 sales
430.34
+1.39
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

18 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
BullsMedium and Large 2Thin Fleshed550–600584370.00/cwt370.00–370.002,1615
HeifersMedium and Large 1Fleshy900–950949286.00/cwt286.00–286.002,71499
HeifersMedium and Large 1450–500462480.00/cwt480.00–480.002,2185
HeifersMedium and Large 1650–700664358.37/cwt353.00–360.002,38013
HeifersMedium and Large 1500–550528433.94/cwt432.50–435.002,29116
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2500–550549420.00/cwt420.00–420.002,3063
SteersMedium and Large 1850–900851342.00/cwt342.00–342.002,9109
SteersMedium and Large 1650–700673402.50/cwt402.50–402.502,70911
SteersMedium and Large 1700–750710387.00/cwt387.00–387.002,74812
SteersMedium and Large 1500–550547471.00/cwt471.00–471.002,57613
SteersMedium and Large 1450–500464535.00/cwt535.00–535.002,4825
SteersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed500–550546460.00/cwt460.00–460.002,5129
HeifersMedium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed400–450444485.00/cwt485.00–485.002,1536
HeifersMedium and Large 1900–950939298.88/cwt292.00–306.002,806255
SteersLarge 11000–10501,012305.00/cwt305.00–305.003,08760
SteersLarge 11050–11001,098294.50/cwt294.50–294.503,234195
SteersMedium and Large 1400–450411590.00/cwt590.00–590.002,4256
SteersMedium and Large 1950–1000952314.00/cwt314.00–314.002,9897

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.