USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Sioux Falls, SD (LS-SF)
Receipts 676Last week 1,660Year ago 3,980
Too light a yearling offering today to compare to last week and develop an accurate price trend. Today's offering consisted of Just packages of yearling heifers today, mostly tested opens off grass, which were met with moderate to good demand. Flesh on yearlings mostly light to moderate and quality varied, from plain to attractive. Today was the first test of spring calves which was met with moderate to good demand. This offering included packages of non weaned calves from just four consignors. Mixed preconditioning with some full preconditioning and some just having spring or fall shots. Flesh light to moderate. A moderate to active market today just a handful of order buyers and a few farmer feeders attending the sale. Internet bidding fairly active on calves. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 13.