Colorado Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

Colorado reported 84 priced lines covering 3,117 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle, replacement cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 2,106 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 746 head. replacement cattle receipts at 1,070 head. Counted as USDA files them — 433 of those are cow-calf pairs, each counted once.

Mon Jun 29, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Greeley, CO (LS-GL)

Feeder CattleReceipts 2,106Last week 471Year ago 0

Slaughter CattleReceipts 746Last week 526Year ago 0

Replacement CattleReceipts 1,070Last week 219Year ago 0

Compared to last week: Combined weighted average report for 3 Colorado auctions included: Centennial Livestock Auction, Winter Livestock

Auction, and Livestock Exchange. Trade activity and demand moderate to good on feeder cattle. Feeder cattle supply too lightly tested to

trend. Trade activity and demand moderate on slaughter cows and bulls. Average dressing breakers traded steady to 2.00 lower, average

dressing boners steady to .50 lower, average dressing leans 1.50 to 2.00 lower, and average dressing slaughter bulls 2.00 higher. The next

available report will be Friday, July 10, 2020.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Heifers — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	553	88.00	88.00
14	—	1,128	78.00	78.00
18	—	688	77.00	77.00
25	—	302	87.50	87.50
Dairy Heifers — Large 3-4$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	347	81.00	81.00
22	—	725	75.00–77.00	76.37
Dairy Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	647	104.00	104.00
8	—	320	132.50	132.50
Dairy Heifers — Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
40	—	395	123.00	123.00
Dairy Heifers — Large 4$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	478	70.00	70.00
4	—	578	70.00	70.00
Dairy Steers — Small and Medium 4$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	453	65.00	65.00
7	—	249	70.00	70.00
13	—	252	80.00	80.00
Dairy Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	433	138.00	138.00
9	—	343	142.50	142.50
Dairy Steers — Large 2-3 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
22	—	412	130.00–131.00	130.72
Dairy Steers — Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
33	—	788	98.75	98.75
44	—	690	112.00	112.00
45	—	382	122.50–124.00	123.01
Dairy Steers — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	878	77.00	77.00
6	—	268	128.00	128.00
12	—	412	115.00–122.50	116.96
15	—	732	83.00	83.00
72	—	602	89.50–90.75	90.17
69	—	490	105.50–111.50	108.76
24	—	534	98.50	98.50
18	—	785	80.00–85.00	83.64
82	—	820	81.00–86.75	83.72
96	—	935	80.00–83.00	81.92
136	—	362	115.00–121.50	120.00
140	—	317	115.00–122.00	118.67
Dairy Steers — Large 3-4$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	653	70.00	70.00
10	—	638	78.00–81.00	80.10
33	—	521	83.00–90.00	84.45
51	—	411	108.00	108.00
59	—	380	98.00–112.50	102.96
66	—	280	107.50–115.00	109.89
78	—	481	99.00–101.50	101.03
Dairy Steers — Large 4$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	480	80.00	80.00
10	—	351	85.00	85.00
12	—	759	75.00	75.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	320	176.50	176.50
5	—	429	166.00	166.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	581	129.00	129.00
8	—	808	113.00	113.00
10	—	762	114.00	114.00
24	—	606	129.00–130.50	129.75
15	—	414	143.00	143.00
12	—	942	104.50	104.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	616	118.00	118.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
155	—	827	129.25	129.25
149	—	893	124.00	124.00

Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Stock Cows — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	190	—	1,154	53.50–61.50	58.37
Stock Cows — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
(<2 yrs)	Open	14	—	633	70.00–73.00	72.28
Stock Cows — Large 4$ per cwt · actual wt
(<2 yrs)	Open	24	—	739	50.00–67.50	57.91
Stock Cows — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Young (2-4 yrs)	Open	7	—	974	81.00–88.00	86.49
Stock Cows — Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
(<2 yrs)	Open	77	—	974	78.00–89.00	80.37
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Aged (>8 yrs)	Open	31	—	1,273	1,000.00–1,175.00	1,088.28
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	Open	11	—	989	1,200.00–1,300.00	1,244.83
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	9	—	1,075	1,025.00	1,025.00
Aged (>8 yrs)	Open	18	—	1,100	1,125.00	1,125.00
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	3	—	1,227	1,100.00	1,100.00
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
Middle Aged/Aged (>5 yrs)	Open	45	—	1,688	1,225.00–1,335.00	1,303.74
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	Open	39	—	1,173	1,700.00–1,725.00	1,720.74
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	Open	65	—	1,130	1,400.00–1,560.00	1,491.54
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	44	—	1,334	1,450.00–1,535.00	1,494.06
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	Open	55	—	1,395	1,325.00–1,460.00	1,343.79
Aged (>8 yrs)	Open	31	—	1,214	1,225.00–1,410.00	1,325.47
Aged (>8 yrs)	Open	82	—	1,340	1,300.00–1,335.00	1,321.50

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,526	22.50–49.00	41.16
4	—	1,394	68.00–74.50	71.06
153	—	1,407	62.00–70.00	63.85
168	—	1,404	50.00–61.50	58.60
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,160	22.50–43.00	35.01
62	—	1,182	55.00–63.50	59.33
61	—	1,084	45.00–56.50	51.69
9	—	1,104	62.00–68.50	65.17
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,393	70.00	70.00
45	—	1,738	53.00–62.50	58.13
36	—	1,724	63.00–69.50	65.61
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	2,018	98.00–108.50	101.78
14	—	1,694	79.00–85.50	82.78
28	—	1,819	87.00–96.00	91.88

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.

Source: USDA AMS, as filed — nothing recomputed and nothing rounded. This summary aggregates the same sales the Colorado barn reports cover, so it must never be added to a state total built from those barns.

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