South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 58 priced lines covering 4,064 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 3,781 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,308 head.

Mon Jun 29, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Sioux Falls, SD (LS-SF)

Feeder CattleReceipts 3,781Last week 11,600Year ago 0

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,308Last week 1,693Year ago 0

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers too lightly tested this week to allow a good comparison with last week's much larger offering, near steady undertones. Only two reported feeder cattle auctions this week as most did not hold sales due to the Independence Day holiday week. Demand remains pretty good for yearlings as feed costs remain low and farmer feeders still have corn they would like to add value to by feeding it to cattle. The bearish tone to the CME Live Cattle contracts has really kept a damper on the feeder cattle market as the summer and fall contracts are below 100.00 and Dec just at 105.00 doesn't allow for a robust feeder market. The competition is so great at the auctions that breakeven prices wind up being several dollars higher than what the contracts are trading at. Slaughter cows steady to 1.00 lower, bulls steady.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
58	—	677	125.00–128.50	127.81
48	—	527	142.00–151.50	146.52
36	—	631	135.50–140.00	138.45
35	—	567	139.00–146.00	141.75
33	—	984	91.50–104.50	93.82
17	—	800	121.50	121.50
10	—	477	150.00–160.00	152.87
328	—	778	122.00–127.00	124.28
232	—	928	97.50–111.75	109.46
188	—	715	121.00–134.50	126.97
171	—	877	103.50–119.75	116.82
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
98	—	1,026	99.00–103.00	102.55
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	774	112.50	112.50
7	—	605	124.00	124.00
19	—	380	145.00–159.00	147.91
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	772	112.00	112.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
138	—	863	134.75	134.75
18	—	525	163.00–167.00	165.44
460	—	928	113.00–127.00	123.19
318	—	817	129.00–138.25	134.87
169	—	688	147.00–156.50	150.94
116	—	728	142.00–154.00	146.87
115	—	614	149.00–160.50	156.76
67	—	770	140.75–143.50	141.83
19	—	565	155.00–158.00	157.04
12	—	962	114.50	114.50
3	—	415	183.00	183.00
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
249	—	1,019	106.50–116.25	114.86
39	—	1,218	95.75	95.75
13	—	1,164	104.00	104.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	577	148.00–154.00	151.88
33	—	671	140.00–152.50	148.40
11	—	865	120.00–124.00	122.21
10	—	516	156.00–162.00	158.74
6	—	731	144.00	144.00
5	—	793	126.00	126.00
4	—	615	151.00	151.00
3	—	462	162.00	162.00
3	—	278	192.50	192.50

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	2,168	94.00–97.00	95.47
17	—	1,769	85.00–91.50	88.43
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
89	—	1,469	82.50–85.50	84.48
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,184	102.50	102.50
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,305	92.00	92.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
186	—	1,539	96.50–100.00	97.86
184	—	1,421	95.00–99.00	97.65
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
182	—	1,279	92.25–98.00	95.83
19	—	1,220	92.00	92.00
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,240	69.50	69.50
17	—	1,225	45.00–57.00	50.85
15	—	1,181	58.00–64.50	62.10
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,690	79.00	79.00
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
76	—	1,510	63.50–72.50	68.64
19	—	1,611	52.00–65.50	62.33
7	—	1,532	72.00–74.00	72.39
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,326	60.00–70.00	65.39
19	—	1,260	54.00–61.00	58.39
4	—	1,385	70.00–73.00	70.91

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

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