Cash grain bids / Iowa / Iowa Daily Cash Grain Bids / 2025-12-10

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 · Wed, Dec 10
● Bids as filed15 quotesUSDA AMS · slug 2850

Soybeans

Bid per bushel · basis vs futures
Delivery pointGradeFreightBidChangeBasisFuturesYear ago
North Central
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.1625–10.2125/bu+0.04−75–−70¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4300
Northeast
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.1625–10.3925/bu+0.04−75–−52¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4650
Northwest
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.1125–10.1625/bu+0.04−80–−75¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4950
South Central
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.1125–10.3625/bu+0.04−80–−55¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4279
Southeast
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.0125–10.4125/bu+0.04−90–−50¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4417
Southwest
Country ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.1425–10.2125/bu+0.04−77–−70¢/BuJanuary (F)9.4336
Terminal ElevatorsUS #1Delivered10.3625/bu+0.09−55¢/BuJanuary (F)9.7400
—
Mills and ProcessorsUS #1Delivered10.2625–10.6625/bu+0.04−65–−25¢/BuJanuary (F)9.7050

Corn

Bid per bushel · basis vs futures
Delivery pointGradeFreightBidChangeBasisFuturesYear ago
North Central
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered3.9925–4.0925/bu+0.04−45–−35¢/BuMarch (H)4.2705
Northeast
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.0025–4.7925/bu+0.04−44–+35¢/BuMarch (H)4.2081
Northwest
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered3.9425–4.0225/bu+0.04−50–−42¢/BuMarch (H)4.3411
South Central
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered3.9925–4.2425/bu+0.04−45–−20¢/BuMarch (H)4.1825
Southeast
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered3.7725–4.2625/bu+0.04−67–−18¢/BuMarch (H)4.1042
Southwest
Country ElevatorsUS #2Delivered3.9925–4.1125/bu+0.04−45–−33¢/BuMarch (H)4.1896
Terminal ElevatorsUS #2Delivered4.2425–4.3625/bu+0.04−20–−8¢/BuMarch (H)4.4325
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.