South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 122 priced lines covering 18,434 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 18,396 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 2,202 head.

Mon Sep 12, 2022

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 18,396Last week 9,955Year ago 12,799

Slaughter CattleReceipts 2,202Last week 988Year ago 1,312

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers unevenly steady. Very good demand for yearling steers and heifers, as yearlings continue to move off grass and come to the auction cattle buyers are ready to compete heavily to get these cattle bought and placed on feed. Drought conditions remain in Central and Western South Dakota, a few strings of spring born calves offered this week and were met with good demand. Most farmer feeders aren't ready to take a calf yet as they would rather have a good start, on their harvest before they take on the added work and worry of starting calves on feed. Rising corn futures prices are adding a headwind to the feeder cattle market as contracts are trading in the 6.75 range. Corn silage harvest has been completed but still a few weeks away from dry corn being ready to combine. Slaughter cows steady to 1.00 higher, bulls steady.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	766	146.00	146.00
6	—	654	153.00	153.00
17	—	719	149.00	149.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
61	—	1,023	169.25	169.25
12	—	274	252.50	252.50
170	—	522	206.00–230.00	217.74
58	—	629	189.00–217.50	205.99
1,404	—	925	168.25–191.00	180.76
63	—	432	225.00–262.00	239.64
281	—	770	179.50–195.75	188.62
1,093	—	967	165.75–187.00	177.36
140	—	731	178.50–209.00	195.88
100	—	570	210.00–222.00	217.76
649	—	828	177.00–196.25	189.00
104	—	676	172.00–212.00	202.31
27	—	461	212.00–237.50	230.83
507	—	882	171.00–193.25	185.81
9	—	377	270.00	270.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
75	—	833	170.00–184.75	181.79
6	—	990	165.00	165.00
6	—	422	204.00	204.00
6	—	491	195.00	195.00
49	—	870	157.00–184.00	170.72
5	—	346	245.00	245.00
18	—	574	188.00–202.00	196.70
7	—	241	245.00	245.00
6	—	909	166.00	166.00
18	—	669	178.00–185.00	181.88
6	—	511	197.00	197.00
7	—	634	187.00	187.00
142	—	731	168.50–181.75	177.07
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,074	140.00–161.00	152.67
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	435	217.00	217.00
11	—	812	119.00	119.00
7	—	360	247.00	247.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
60	—	973	172.00	172.00
8	—	851	170.00	170.00
134	—	916	168.50–170.25	169.35
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
77	—	1,129	154.00–162.00	158.83
217	—	1,160	154.25–162.00	160.81
393	—	1,019	170.50–182.00	177.10
442	—	1,071	154.75–174.75	168.63
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	873	167.00	167.00
Steers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,275	142.50	142.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
90	—	424	191.00–225.00	218.19
1,307	—	923	159.25–179.00	169.95
5	—	1,093	151.50	151.50
761	—	775	165.50–185.50	179.10
235	—	624	185.00–197.50	193.86
34	—	517	192.00–205.00	196.23
589	—	726	171.00–188.25	182.30
664	—	664	178.00–195.00	189.07
9	—	1,102	145.50	145.50
45	—	491	194.00–199.00	194.56
1,017	—	975	156.00–175.00	166.74
30	—	1,035	159.00–161.50	160.71
6	—	230	271.00	271.00
5	—	399	207.00	207.00
1,262	—	830	161.00–183.00	175.75
1,196	—	879	161.25–183.00	174.45
156	—	573	189.00–197.00	194.76
5	—	335	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
91	—	776	180.00–181.50	181.18
762	—	934	166.75–175.25	172.49
67	—	841	181.25	181.25
233	—	867	167.00–177.00	173.26
8	—	645	172.50	172.50
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
61	—	1,076	155.50–162.50	159.36
11	—	1,211	147.00	147.00
35	—	1,135	155.50	155.50
318	—	1,016	158.00–171.35	163.15
6	—	940	164.50	164.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
139	—	758	148.00–165.50	160.80
5	—	359	215.00	215.00
10	—	221	245.00	245.00
8	—	470	185.00	185.00
103	—	636	175.00–185.00	180.00
92	—	732	153.50–169.50	164.34
35	—	529	181.00	181.00
116	—	817	130.00–172.00	154.00
64	—	932	130.00	130.00
84	—	682	161.25	161.25
30	—	871	141.00–166.00	154.04
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,224	135.00	135.00
Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	1,022	139.25	139.25
14	—	947	140.00	140.00
6	—	657	154.00	154.00
5	—	996	139.00	139.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
49	—	889	156.00–159.50	156.42
10	—	813	162.00	162.00
70	—	918	165.50	165.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	826	171.50	171.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	387	155.00	155.00
5	—	517	175.00	175.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
41	—	1,288	72.00–81.00	76.82
13	—	978	31.00–56.00	45.47
15	—	1,144	81.50–87.00	84.89
45	—	1,015	63.00–74.00	67.91
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
44	—	1,476	90.00–95.00	92.96
13	—	1,297	97.00–99.50	98.29
4	—	1,474	77.00–89.00	85.72
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,390	91.50–93.00	92.40
55	—	1,334	82.00–91.00	87.63
7	—	1,408	78.50–85.00	82.41
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,613	100.00–105.50	101.91
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
118	—	1,333	145.00–148.00	146.46
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
222	—	1,289	142.50–144.50	143.39
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,342	136.00–138.00	137.79
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,234	143.00–143.50	143.20
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
279	—	1,293	144.50–152.00	148.40
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
118	—	1,510	147.25	147.25
334	—	1,443	140.00–150.00	147.33
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
191	—	1,561	141.50–142.50	141.91
322	—	1,440	141.00–146.00	142.94
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,298	137.00–144.00	140.32
Dairy Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,277	116.00	116.00
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
49	—	1,625	127.00–135.25	132.71
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,363	122.00–125.50	123.63
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,767	86.00–102.00	96.45
4	—	1,848	113.00–120.50	116.11
3	—	2,048	98.50–101.00	100.12
22	—	1,917	103.00–111.50	106.87

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

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