South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 112 priced lines covering 18,351 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 19,639 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,119 head.

Mon Apr 8, 2024

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 19,639Last week 15,393Year ago 27,226

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,119Last week 1,116Year ago 1,161

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers 3.00 to 8.00 lower. Moderate to good demand for all weights of steers and heifers, but with the continued down pressure from the futures contracts, cattle feeders have been put on the defensive. The market is still active for those thin fleshed cattle but there is much more apprehension in the minds of cattle producers as the futures contracts fail to follow the cash market. The cash fed cattle market only at 185.00, while most outgoing fat cattle need 190.00 to breakeven. The summer months of the Live Cattle contract have now dipped into the 160s, yet the feeder market has not gone down to make for breakevens that align with the futures. Grass is green and starting to grow, corn planters have started rolling in the southeast corner of the state. Auction receipts are declining, as is normal for this time of year, and cattle feeders are willing to compete heavily to fill their pens in spite of a futures complex that is not supportive. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 higher, bulls sold with lower undertones.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	300–350	348	317.50	317.50
12	400–450	435	302.00–320.00	312.36
6	450–500	472	305.00	305.00
47	500–550	534	239.00–290.00	271.81
83	550–600	565	256.00–284.00	269.22
77	600–650	625	247.00–270.50	257.06
71	700–750	717	220.00–232.00	224.73
78	750–800	779	206.00–224.50	218.47
47	850–900	875	208.50–209.75	208.77
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
28	600–650	615	249.00–250.00	249.54
8	750–800	759	208.00	208.00
28	800–850	849	209.00	209.00
73	850–900	896	193.00–208.25	207.23
9	900–950	918	209.00	209.00
4	950–1000	989	202.00	202.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
10	700–750	724	229.00	229.00
12	750–800	757	225.00	225.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
27	300–350	343	362.50–367.00	363.83
29	350–400	362	322.50–375.00	339.75
68	400–450	437	307.50–343.00	325.19
145	450–500	479	290.00–343.00	317.77
325	500–550	513	285.00–335.00	314.90
357	550–600	570	279.00–315.00	296.02
452	600–650	622	260.00–294.00	276.26
846	650–700	685	249.50–278.00	259.79
664	700–750	727	230.00–255.00	245.18
913	750–800	777	214.00–250.50	235.00
914	800–850	822	212.00–237.00	224.76
1,048	850–900	874	206.00–230.25	217.37
139	900–950	919	202.50–222.00	210.29
48	950–1000	961	212.50–217.50	214.97
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
301	700–750	732	252.00–258.00	253.63
144	750–800	773	249.50	249.50
318	800–850	820	244.00–251.00	247.89
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
10	650–700	686	238.00	238.00
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	1000–1050	1,030	202.00	202.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	550–600	562	207.50	207.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
11	550–600	591	300.00	300.00
15	650–700	691	270.00	270.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	300–350	324	380.00	380.00
11	450–500	491	320.00	320.00
8	500–550	529	272.50–318.00	289.74
70	550–600	575	230.00–323.00	295.77
18	600–650	630	262.00–269.00	267.05
29	700–750	743	240.00–272.00	259.77
115	750–800	763	231.50–246.00	237.06
14	800–850	816	236.00	236.00
54	850–900	890	236.00	236.00
4	900–950	922	219.50	219.50
12	950–1000	950	218.50	218.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	350–400	377	393.00–400.00	396.45
48	400–450	423	371.00–395.00	380.52
114	450–500	471	328.00–383.00	358.29
267	500–550	531	295.00–355.00	339.90
183	550–600	569	300.00–346.50	322.44
361	600–650	627	270.00–321.00	298.31
572	650–700	669	268.00–306.00	295.02
644	700–750	724	241.00–296.50	280.19
508	750–800	773	248.50–280.00	267.82
1,549	800–850	826	234.00–264.50	254.36
1,469	850–900	878	216.50–252.50	241.50
1,214	900–950	920	222.50–247.50	236.44
958	950–1000	971	211.00–236.10	227.61
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	400–450	441	297.50–307.50	303.11
10	500–550	538	170.00–220.00	184.43
3	600–650	605	225.00	225.00
5	700–750	700	195.00	195.00
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
395	1000–1050	1,019	218.00–224.00	220.72
38	1050–1100	1,053	216.00	216.00
222	1100–1150	1,117	213.25–220.00	218.48
15	1150–1200	1,180	171.00–172.00	171.40
5	1350–1400	1,356	176.00	176.00
Steers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
244	1000–1050	1,025	197.00–213.75	200.90
253	1050–1100	1,077	191.50–204.00	201.32
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
48	650–700	669	261.00–288.00	273.26
83	700–750	732	230.00–274.00	262.58
81	750–800	789	232.00–246.00	242.30
83	850–900	883	226.00–232.50	227.94
228	950–1000	982	208.00–224.00	219.59
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
57	900–950	905	246.75	246.75
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	450–500	456	250.00	250.00
6	600–650	607	228.00	228.00
10	650–700	679	237.50	237.50
Bulls — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	1000–1050	1,028	194.00	194.00
Beef/Dairy Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	489	255.00	255.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,357	174.00–176.00	174.94
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	2,137	132.50–138.00	135.35
1	—	2,405	159.00	159.00
30	—	1,972	140.00–153.00	147.07
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,421	180.00	180.00
3	—	1,645	180.00	180.00
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,490	178.00	178.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
200	—	1,576	183.75–187.25	186.14
21	—	1,370	183.50–186.50	184.72
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,539	188.00–193.25	190.92
50	—	1,468	188.50–191.00	189.93
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,468	186.75–188.50	187.56
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
57	—	1,410	187.25–191.00	189.23
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,320	181.00–183.00	181.65
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,435	183.00–185.00	184.33
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,382	179.00	179.00
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,423	182.00–185.50	184.70
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
94	—	1,434	119.00–129.00	124.40
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,171	75.00–105.00	96.45
10	—	1,018	30.00–82.50	54.52
37	—	1,267	100.00–118.00	111.63
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
46	—	1,489	130.00–141.00	133.23
4	—	1,434	138.50–145.00	141.87
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,648	129.00–144.00	135.66
Beef/Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,385	164.00–174.00	169.52
21	—	1,515	177.00	177.00
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,509	156.00–162.00	158.64

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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