Iowa Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

Iowa reported 102 priced lines covering 14,438 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 14,569 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,228 head.

Mon Jan 30, 2023

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 14,569Last week 14,717Year ago 11,210

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,228Last week 1,644Year ago 174

Compared to last week, choice steers and heifers sold 1.00 to 3.00 higher. Feeder steers and heifers overall sold 1.00 to 6.00 higher.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
22	—	591	219.00	219.00
33	—	853	189.50	189.50
13	—	605	211.00	211.00
11	—	667	197.50	197.50
36	—	774	182.25	182.25
49	—	513	222.75–239.00	231.81
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	981	150.00–170.00	165.73
18	—	381	218.00–241.00	229.93
20	—	339	235.00–248.00	243.92
1,131	—	625	187.50–216.50	202.53
1,073	—	726	171.00–200.50	187.61
133	—	426	223.00–258.00	238.34
807	—	569	191.00–231.50	213.18
43	—	934	167.50–184.50	178.33
196	—	473	198.00–241.00	226.79
898	—	775	171.00–190.50	182.06
506	—	525	190.00–232.00	219.73
472	—	878	160.00–196.50	178.46
1,260	—	673	174.00–218.00	197.01
433	—	824	173.00–195.50	184.16
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	768	165.00–169.00	167.19
57	—	580	165.00–204.00	194.58
18	—	737	170.00–173.00	172.02
37	—	431	181.00–212.00	199.29
12	—	864	150.00–179.00	159.58
42	—	669	169.00–190.00	179.12
27	—	623	164.00–190.00	178.61
14	—	535	181.00–202.50	185.52
7	—	476	185.00	185.00
9	—	918	166.00	166.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	698	113.00	113.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	790	160.50	160.50
7	—	316	230.00	230.00
6	—	591	170.00	170.00
29	—	636	175.00–185.00	184.02
23	—	481	219.00–221.50	220.17
9	—	524	222.50	222.50
22	—	410	217.50–229.00	225.22
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	469	173.00	173.00
4	—	441	187.50	187.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	507	166.00–179.00	173.61
5	—	628	164.00	164.00
3	—	592	165.00	165.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	655	179.50–184.50	182.31
36	—	765	176.50	176.50
21	—	578	193.00	193.00
24	—	749	171.00	171.00
26	—	647	180.00	180.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	573	151.00–172.00	159.19
3	—	650	155.00	155.00
10	—	438	180.00–187.00	184.59
37	—	627	140.00–166.00	154.15
3	—	313	172.00	172.00
10	—	523	139.00–165.00	147.57
19	—	479	140.00–184.00	173.89
3	—	937	146.00	146.00
26	—	380	133.00–201.00	180.16
8	—	724	152.00	152.00
5	—	777	168.50	168.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
997	—	672	164.00–182.25	174.57
1,150	—	619	167.00–187.00	177.77
59	—	371	190.00–230.00	209.83
140	—	422	186.00–211.00	202.27
446	—	770	158.00–172.80	168.65
38	—	865	155.00–176.00	165.40
14	—	956	159.75	159.75
353	—	476	179.00–206.00	195.16
631	—	573	167.00–195.00	183.09
644	—	726	162.00–179.50	170.79
7	—	338	205.00–214.00	208.85
851	—	527	171.00–210.00	190.33
51	—	819	161.00–167.00	165.67
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,101	152.00	152.00
36	—	1,069	151.00	151.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	560	200.00	200.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	628	189.00	189.00
3	—	915	139.00	139.00
6	—	510	215.00	215.00
3	—	747	176.00	176.00
3	—	468	160.00	160.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	663	146.00	146.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
313	—	1,363	149.00–168.00	162.19
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
83	—	1,258	139.50–158.00	153.32
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,215	121.00–124.00	122.67
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,027	137.00–143.00	141.25
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,071	116.00–146.00	133.41
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,190	152.50–154.00	153.27
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,133	55.00–71.00	66.59
6	—	1,024	40.00–47.00	44.93
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
57	—	1,526	86.00–99.50	89.99
57	—	1,411	80.00–86.50	83.12
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
65	—	1,272	70.00–79.50	75.75
22	—	1,252	80.00–84.00	82.28
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,128	125.00–156.50	148.03
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,324	147.00–158.00	155.70
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
332	—	1,495	154.00–168.00	163.13
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,214	139.00–140.00	139.51
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,598	140.00–151.00	145.15
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,514	128.00–135.00	132.86
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,722	81.00–112.00	96.84
4	—	1,578	60.00–75.00	66.27
8	—	2,076	104.00–129.50	118.87

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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