Colorado Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

Colorado reported 17 priced lines covering 450 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle, replacement cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 88 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 475 head. replacement cattle receipts at 19 head. Counted as USDA files them — 17 of those are cow-calf pairs, each counted once.

Mon Jul 5, 2021

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 88Last week 1,961Year ago 2,106

Slaughter CattleReceipts 475Last week 476Year ago 746

Replacement CattleReceipts 19Last week 31Year ago 1,070

Compared to last week: Combined weighted average report for 1 Colorado auction market included: Livestock Exchange. Trade activity and demand were moderate to good. Slaughter cows traded 1.00 to 3.00 higher. Slaughter bulls traded 4.50 lower. Feeding cows traded 1.00 to 6.00 higher. Dairy heifers traded steady to 1.50 higher on a thinner test. Replacement cattle had too few comparisons to accurately trend and feeder cattle were too thinly tested to quote. The next available report will be Monday, July 19, 2021.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,800	90.00–99.50	92.78
5	—	1,946	100.00–104.50	101.29
10	—	1,585	80.00–89.50	86.12
Cows — Lean 85-90% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,114	68.00–76.00	71.67
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
57	—	1,162	60.00–68.00	63.15
23	—	1,100	47.50–59.50	55.89
5	—	1,260	22.50–40.00	31.61
Cows — Boner 80-85% · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,415	71.00–77.50	73.73
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,445	57.00–64.00	60.42
135	—	1,441	64.50–74.00	67.98
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,683	67.00–77.00	72.01

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Heifers — Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,018	90.50–92.00	91.36
14	—	1,068	92.50	92.50
16	—	983	90.50–93.50	91.87
5	—	1,264	93.50	93.50
6	—	1,121	91.50	91.50

Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cow-Calf Pairs — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	Open	17	—	1,265	1,250.00–1,325.00	1,293.33

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.

Feeder Cattle — prices, barns, and planning

Fed Cattle — the cash market and what quality pays

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Feed & Hay — the cost side, cash not futures

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