South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 98 priced lines covering 14,771 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 14,702 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,687 head.

Mon Jan 31, 2022

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 14,702Last week 26,998Year ago 19,054

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,687Last week 1,505Year ago 2,153

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers 2.00 to 5.00 higher. Very good demand for all weights of steers and heifers this week as the cattle futures contracts rallied and cash fat cattle rose to the 140.00 level. Cattle feeders were finally able to push the fat cattle market higher as daily kill levels came closer to where they should be for this time of year. The open winter this year has allowed cattle to grow easily, helping to keep cost of gains from being even higher. Cattle feeders want to have cattle to meet these oncoming months of the fat market, especially as the futures contracts are at much higher levels than last year. The demand for cattle to graze and sell as yearlings in the fall is red hot as the feeder cattle contracts for the fall are pushing towards 190.00. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 higher, bulls 2.00 higher.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,980	100.00	100.00
15	—	1,734	94.00–98.00	95.30
18	—	1,701	64.00–93.50	86.80
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,595	47.00	47.00
78	—	1,390	63.00–71.50	67.32
17	—	1,401	70.00–72.00	71.09
9	—	1,243	60.00–63.00	62.10
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,478	62.00	62.00
52	—	1,295	56.00–62.00	58.71
19	—	1,191	45.00–55.00	49.72
23	—	1,108	10.00–47.00	24.39
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
110	—	1,559	70.00–76.50	74.56
26	—	1,641	78.00–87.50	81.20
46	—	1,557	64.00–77.00	69.28
Dairy Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,449	120.50	120.50
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,467	110.00	110.00
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,458	112.50–116.00	113.52
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,479	142.00–144.00	142.85
146	—	1,568	144.00–146.50	144.64
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
225	—	1,627	136.25–141.00	139.08
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
150	—	1,422	139.00–142.25	140.81
132	—	1,558	137.00–143.25	139.33
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
139	—	1,485	136.25–140.50	139.08
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
75	—	1,434	137.50–146.00	142.34

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
100	—	959	144.00	144.00
67	—	438	178.00–192.00	188.23
1,021	—	719	144.50–163.50	155.35
16	—	362	195.00–216.00	205.15
67	—	920	140.50–149.00	145.60
464	—	526	166.00–186.00	175.93
87	—	482	175.00–194.00	183.32
364	—	576	158.50–178.00	168.35
484	—	827	143.75–153.00	150.14
704	—	624	155.00–171.00	165.81
652	—	776	143.50–155.50	150.39
944	—	667	141.50–167.50	158.66
338	—	880	139.00–150.00	148.06
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	591	155.00–157.50	156.74
37	—	677	147.00–150.00	148.53
57	—	728	146.50–150.50	147.91
28	—	432	170.00–180.00	174.33
41	—	630	138.00–155.75	152.23
5	—	807	123.00	123.00
44	—	534	146.00–169.00	153.43
58	—	782	141.50–148.50	145.80
17	—	396	169.00–184.00	177.90
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	633	147.00–153.00	150.24
8	—	751	131.00	131.00
40	—	736	144.00–146.50	145.72
Heifers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,154	124.50	124.50
11	—	1,108	125.00–131.00	128.26
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	1,148	145.10	145.10
19	—	1,026	146.50	146.50
5	—	1,059	140.00	140.00
12	—	573	151.00	151.00
101	—	1,162	145.10	145.10
Heifers — Medium 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	314	161.00	161.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	768	159.75	159.75
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	807	179.00	179.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
44	—	587	184.00–186.00	185.31
8	—	672	172.00	172.00
35	—	715	151.00–164.50	158.44
4	—	494	190.00	190.00
69	—	640	165.00–178.00	173.50
11	—	786	151.00	151.00
11	—	514	182.00–192.00	186.44
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
176	—	1,082	144.00–154.50	147.58
53	—	1,116	141.75–146.50	143.13
59	—	1,026	154.25	154.25
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	608	191.00	191.00
139	—	754	172.10–173.75	172.51
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
63	—	431	208.00–219.00	215.86
438	—	918	149.00–160.25	156.64
1,387	—	774	156.00–174.25	164.98
1,183	—	724	162.00–179.75	171.98
9	—	344	231.00	231.00
9	—	367	210.00–230.00	221.25
404	—	678	163.75–187.00	173.93
97	—	471	197.00–218.00	209.06
213	—	576	183.00–204.00	191.01
219	—	968	147.00–154.75	152.46
743	—	631	175.00–200.00	187.16
725	—	827	152.75–166.00	159.35
292	—	538	195.00–213.00	203.75
813	—	876	151.00–163.00	157.75
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	879	145.00–148.25	146.30
18	—	523	173.00–178.00	175.29
9	—	463	194.00	194.00
28	—	624	154.00–180.00	171.11
9	—	591	180.00	180.00
90	—	765	152.50–156.50	154.61
12	—	706	156.50–160.00	158.59
22	—	817	144.00–151.50	148.44
5	—	430	191.00	191.00
59	—	680	159.00–177.50	168.96
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,182	127.00	127.00
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	770	121.00	121.00
6	—	639	158.00	158.00

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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