Cash grain bids / Iowa / Iowa Daily Cash Grain Bids / 2025-01-27

Feeder Cattle — prices, barns, and planning

The Feeder BoardNational weight ladder, every weight classfreeState & Region LaddersEvery state, every weightfreeFind Your BarnEvery USDA-reported market, every salefreeSale ReportsClean report pages replacing USDA PDFsfreeState Auction SummariesUSDA's statewide view, 30 statesfreeWhat Are My Calves Worth?Weight + sex + state → today's moneyfreeThe Forward CurveFall prices trading today, by regionproVideo & Internet SalesSuperior, Western Video and morefreeBoard SalesForward feeder trade, by delivery monthfree

Fed Cattle — the cash market and what quality pays

Fed Cash Today5-Area live & dressed, regional splitfreePacker MarginThe daily per-head numberfreeCarcass Weight WatchWeekly weights vs 5-year bandfreeCattle on FeedMonthly placements & marketings, revisions trackedfreeNegotiated Share TrackerCash vs formula, tracked over yearsfreeWhat Quality PaysWhat packers add and subtract on a carcass gridfree

Beef & Retail — from the box to the grocery shelf

Boxed Beef DailyChoice, Select, the spreadfreePrimal ValuesRib to flank, what's pulling the cutoutfreeWhat the Label Is WorthGrass-fed and organic vs conventional, by cutfreeThe 84-Cut LadderEvery cut USDA tracks, dailyproWho Gets WhatEvery segment’s share of the beef dollarfreeImported Lean MarketThe 90s trade that moves cull cowsSoon

Feed & Hay — the cost side, cash not futures

Cash Grain Bids30 states of elevator bids, dailyfreeHay Prices19 states + 18 auctions, by qualityfreeBasis MapWhat local corn is worth against the boardfreeFeedstuffs DeskDDGS, soybean meal, mill feedsfree

Cows & Bred Stock — the rebuild market

Cull Cow & Bull PricesDaily national, by class and regionfreeCow CutoutWhat the grinding beef is worth, dailyfreeBred Cows & PairsBy stage, age, and statefree

More

Latest ReportsEvery USDA release as it publishesfreeReport ArchiveWhat USDA published on any datefreeThe Morning WireDaily brief from every fresh reportfreeRecords BookAll-time highs, and where today sitsfreeCattle on FeedMonthly, with revisions trackedfreeThe BordersMexico & Canada flows and pricesproDrought & Forced SellingHow much of the herd is dry, and what it costsfreeAlertsYour barn, your class, your thresholdSoon

Iowa Daily Cash Grain Bids

Iowa · Des Moines · Mon, Jan 27
● Bids as filed15 quotesUSDA AMS · slug 2850

Soybeans

Bid per bushel · basis vs futures
Delivery pointGradeFreightBidChangeBasisFuturesYear ago
North Central
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.7000–9.8000/bu+0.11−75–−65¢/BuMarch (H)11.4145
Northeast
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.6700–9.9200/bu+0.11−78–−53¢/BuMarch (H)11.4569
Northwest
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.7500–9.8500/bu+0.11−70–−60¢/BuMarch (H)11.3182
South Central
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.7000–9.9000/bu+0.11−75–−55¢/BuMarch (H)11.4525
Southeast
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.7100–9.8300/bu+0.11−74–−62¢/BuMarch (H)11.5139
Southwest
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered9.7300–9.8500/bu+0.11−72–−60¢/BuMarch (H)11.4254
Terminal ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.0000/bu+0.11−45¢/BuMarch (H)11.7325
—
Mills and ProcessorsUS #1Delivered10.0000–10.1000/bu+0.11−45–−35¢/BuMarch (H)11.6025

Corn

Bid per bushel · basis vs futures
Delivery pointGradeFreightBidChangeBasisFuturesYear ago
North Central
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.4200–4.5300/bu+0.05−40–−29¢/BuMarch (H)4.2955
Northeast
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.4200–4.6200/bu+0.05−40–−20¢/BuMarch (H)4.3736
Northwest
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.4300–4.6900/bu+0.05−39–−13¢/BuMarch (H)4.3382
South Central
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.4000–4.5400/bu+0.04−42–−28¢/BuMarch (H)4.2439
Southeast
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.1900–4.5200/bu+0.04−63–−30¢/BuMarch (H)4.2025
Southwest
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.3000–4.5200/bu+0.05−52–−30¢/BuMarch (H)4.2639
Terminal ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.6600/bu+0.05−16¢/BuMarch (H)4.4675
Source: USDA AMS · Des Moines, IA. Bids are what buyers offered on the day USDA collected them, not settled trades. Change and year-ago figures are USDA's own — nothing on this page is recomputed, and prices in different units are never averaged together.