Iowa Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

Iowa reported 42 priced lines covering 2,268 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 1,201 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,147 head.

Mon Aug 16, 2021

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 1,201Last week 4,261Year ago 3,534

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,147Last week 207Year ago 2,504

Compared to last week: Choice steers 2.00 lower and choice heifers steady. Feeder steers 650 to 949 lbs 3.00 to 7.00 higher on light receipts. Feeder heifers to few receipts last week for a market test.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,462	73.00–79.00	75.41
20	—	1,654	80.00–84.00	82.01
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,356	63.00–71.00	66.37
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,689	85.00–86.00	85.51
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,014	21.00–45.00	38.39
10	—	1,148	48.00–61.00	53.36
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	949	105.00–115.00	111.21
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,075	84.00–120.00	103.55
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
125	—	1,159	118.00–138.50	126.90
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,435	80.00	80.00
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,667	115.00	115.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
220	—	1,321	116.00–134.00	127.45
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,310	95.50–97.00	96.26
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,288	101.00–124.00	118.85
Dairy Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,308	108.00–109.00	108.94
Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,189	94.00	94.00
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,225	100.00–108.00	103.10
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,089	86.00–130.00	108.84
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,180	116.00–127.50	123.02
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
395	—	1,433	121.50–136.00	128.13
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,316	114.50–124.50	120.53
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,605	112.00–117.50	114.18
Dairy Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,350	107.00–109.50	107.71
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,827	89.00–101.00	94.05
17	—	1,520	79.00–114.00	90.59
18	—	1,707	70.00–86.00	80.79
3	—	1,315	71.00–75.00	73.44

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
60	—	906	155.00	155.00
5	—	744	162.00	162.00
501	—	772	158.60–167.75	165.12
250	—	827	162.10–165.10	163.53
118	—	858	156.50–162.10	159.44
78	—	655	176.60	176.60
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	401	174.00	174.00
9	—	625	158.00	158.00
13	—	676	146.00–160.00	156.83
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	450	141.00	141.00
11	—	587	133.00–138.00	136.18
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
84	—	691	141.00–156.85	154.43
30	—	914	133.00	133.00
18	—	611	147.50	147.50
10	—	772	129.00–132.50	130.36

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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