Iowa Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

Iowa reported 63 priced lines covering 2,907 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 1,777 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,569 head.

Mon Jul 27, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Des Moines, IA (LS-NW)

Feeder CattleReceipts 1,777Last week 0Year ago 2,260

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,569Last week 2,135Year ago 1,410

Compared to last week, Choice Steers sold steady, Choice Heifers sold steady to 1.00 higher. No feeder cattle reported last week for a price comparison.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,353	80.50–87.00	84.30
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,318	73.00–79.00	76.87
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
73	—	1,477	88.00–94.00	92.41
9	—	1,416	78.00–79.50	78.40
Dairy Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,123	69.00	69.00
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
41	—	1,109	76.00–100.00	89.00
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,279	98.00–103.00	100.07
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,117	105.00–117.00	109.98
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
97	—	1,314	89.00–99.50	96.07
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,318	79.50–87.50	85.80
Steers — Choice · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,318	110.50	110.50
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
503	—	1,370	96.00–107.00	101.70
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,176	90.00–99.50	95.94
8	—	1,196	94.25–99.00	94.96
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,099	69.00–101.00	83.54
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,079	80.00–89.50	85.96
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,481	84.50–90.50	85.87
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,604	75.50–80.00	77.83
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
70	—	1,183	92.00–98.85	96.83
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,421	94.00–97.50	95.22
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
194	—	1,239	97.00–105.75	101.61
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,083	46.00–55.00	50.71
3	—	1,182	43.00–45.00	43.68
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
51	—	1,459	72.00–81.00	76.02
48	—	1,373	65.00–74.00	71.34
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,277	59.00–68.00	63.22
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	1,503	72.00–99.00	91.20
2	—	1,793	105.00–113.00	109.13

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
111	—	675	132.00–143.75	139.80
65	—	811	129.50–133.50	130.65
47	—	878	117.75–125.00	122.25
44	—	710	130.00–137.00	133.70
39	—	616	135.00–142.00	137.31
29	—	577	134.50–139.00	137.03
20	—	900	115.00	115.00
19	—	538	139.00–145.00	141.25
18	—	982	112.50–115.50	113.47
5	—	386	575.00	575.00
143	—	771	129.50–136.00	130.49
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	779	124.50	124.50
14	—	482	131.00–135.00	133.33
10	—	678	124.00	124.00
3	—	520	130.00	130.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	292	540.00	540.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	650	134.00	134.00
7	—	882	128.00	128.00
3	—	533	144.00	144.00
3	—	485	150.00	150.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	375	161.00	161.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	373	670.00	670.00
3	—	421	675.00	675.00
271	—	874	131.00–143.50	140.91
168	—	817	136.00–144.50	140.32
148	—	958	122.50–134.25	128.00
104	—	765	142.75–149.50	146.05
66	—	1,104	117.00	117.00
25	—	628	140.00–151.00	145.71
24	—	685	141.00–149.00	144.60
22	—	1,009	126.25	126.25
17	—	584	152.00–155.00	152.87
10	—	705	147.50–149.00	147.95
9	—	533	154.00–160.00	157.37
8	—	918	124.00–128.00	125.53

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 Iowa barn reports cover, so it must never be added to a state total built from those barns.

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