Name: Winter Livestock - Riverton, WY livestock auction prices — 2025-12-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-09

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Today on a calf and yearling sale no comparisons are available from past couple of weeks. Calves higher overtones noted on reputation quality lots with demand very good with several buyers in attendance.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $434.86/cwt on 152 head. That ranks 1 of 15 comparable sales and sits −58.29 against this barn's trailing median of $493.15.

Average price

$434.86

152 head · 574 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,496

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−13.09

vs WY average

+4.23 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	574	434.86	2,496	152

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

15 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $533.45, low $449.22, median $493.15 across 15 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 sale152 hd

434.86

—

WY average2 barns · 614 hd

447.95

−13.09

National average179 barns · 20,601 hd

430.63

+4.23

This barn, trailing median15 sales

493.15

−58.29

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

10 lots · USDA AMS · Winter Livestock Auction - Riverton, WY

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 and Large 1	700–750	725	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	2,248	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	680	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	2,183	10
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	490	426.00/cwt	426.00–426.00	2,087	31
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	545	407.93/cwt	400.00–416.00	2,223	50
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	630	368.00/cwt	368.00–368.00	2,318	106
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	480	501.00/cwt	501.00–501.00	2,405	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	650–700	656	387.50/cwt	387.50–387.50	2,542	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	722	363.32/cwt	354.50–365.00	2,623	73
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	636	409.76/cwt	391.00–412.50	2,606	102
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	574	434.86/cwt	422.00–439.00	2,496	152

How this sale compares

Wyoming weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Wyoming auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

Wyoming feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Winter Livestock Auction - Riverton, WY

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USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Torrington, WY (LS-TO)

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Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
31	450–500	490	426.00	426.00
50	500–550	545	400.00–416.00	407.93
106	600–650	630	368.00	368.00
10	650–700	680	321.00	321.00
5	700–750	725	310.00	310.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	480	501.00	501.00
152	550–600	574	422.00–439.00	434.86
102	600–650	636	391.00–412.50	409.76
33	650–700	656	387.50	387.50
73	700–750	722	354.50–365.00	363.32

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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