South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 91 priced lines covering 10,232 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 10,150 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 1,040 head.

Mon Jul 8, 2024

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 10,150Last week 2,298Year ago 8,189

Slaughter CattleReceipts 1,040Last week 0Year ago 1,117

Compared to last week: Much larger offering of feeder steers and heifers, higher undertones evident. Very good demand remains for feeder cattle, irrespective of weakness seen in the futures complex. Cattle feeders are fully aware of how limited slaughter cattle supplies are, and how the market is moving counter-seasonally, this is causing cattle feeders to be filled with a great amount of optimism. Cash fed cattle traded at 198.00 this week, 16.00 over the spot month of Aug Live Cattle. Grazing conditions are remaining adequate allowing cattle producers to keep cattle turned out and not having to pull cattle early. Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 higher, lean cows 2.00 lower, bulls steady to 1.00 higher.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	400–450	424	380.00	380.00
7	450–500	452	382.50	382.50
56	500–550	526	341.00	341.00
155	600–650	620	296.00–320.50	304.52
6	650–700	659	310.00	310.00
212	700–750	726	282.00–300.00	289.27
77	750–800	770	259.00–283.00	271.88
185	800–850	828	260.50–276.50	269.29
601	850–900	881	243.00–272.00	260.34
1,300	900–950	928	241.75–259.50	255.89
920	950–1000	979	221.00–255.75	248.97
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	800–850	809	250.00	250.00
6	850–900	884	249.50	249.50
175	950–1000	969	229.50	229.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	550–600	599	310.00	310.00
31	600–650	643	274.00–299.00	287.53
16	650–700	677	251.00	251.00
9	700–750	739	251.00–256.00	252.64
4	750–800	759	219.00	219.00
28	850–900	877	214.00–236.00	229.34
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
25	1000–1050	1,021	196.00–209.75	208.10
57	1100–1150	1,108	194.25–210.75	204.95
Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
23	750–800	759	232.00	232.00
Steers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
146	1050–1100	1,083	218.00	218.00
58	1100–1150	1,129	217.50	217.50
101	1250–1300	1,263	206.50–210.50	208.50
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
691	1000–1050	1,020	230.00–252.50	244.80
1,085	1050–1100	1,078	225.00–242.00	232.61
443	1100–1150	1,123	218.00–233.50	227.37
13	1150–1200	1,162	203.50–218.50	212.48
56	1200–1250	1,218	219.25	219.25
8	1250–1300	1,299	195.00	195.00
7	1300–1350	1,302	199.50	199.50
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	500–550	505	255.00	255.00
16	550–600	569	231.00	231.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	540	252.50	252.50
18	550–600	574	260.00–277.00	271.24
20	600–650	622	234.00–271.00	253.78
22	650–700	666	230.00–255.00	242.27
10	700–750	700	249.00	249.00
38	750–800	780	229.00–240.00	237.03
37	800–850	813	226.00–228.50	228.30
5	950–1000	972	208.00	208.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
44	400–450	426	334.00–336.00	335.39
105	500–550	525	291.00–316.00	308.45
12	550–600	556	293.00–300.00	294.74
85	600–650	624	286.00–302.00	294.24
78	650–700	664	273.00–287.00	281.69
294	700–750	725	249.00–273.00	264.46
258	750–800	775	240.50–250.25	249.09
306	800–850	822	235.00–246.00	243.52
155	850–900	879	225.00–245.00	238.82
487	900–950	927	220.00–241.00	226.75
284	950–1000	968	214.00–227.25	221.23
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	700–750	723	271.00	271.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
8	850–900	889	211.00	211.00
27	900–950	909	219.50	219.50
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
167	1000–1050	1,015	194.00–224.00	214.02
121	1050–1100	1,061	201.00–217.00	216.59
Heifers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
25	1000–1050	1,018	202.00	202.00
Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
18	700–750	734	219.00	219.00
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
58	1050–1100	1,078	212.00	212.00
55	1150–1200	1,181	202.75	202.75
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	542	220.00	220.00
6	650–700	675	140.00	140.00
7	900–950	909	154.00	154.00
Beef/Dairy Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
62	1150–1200	1,155	228.35	228.35

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	2,165	176.00–193.00	184.86
46	—	1,862	160.00–171.00	164.36
6	—	1,814	147.00–156.00	152.05
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
74	—	1,273	199.50–204.50	201.93
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
48	—	1,211	190.00–198.50	194.97
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,326	200.50–200.75	200.72
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,406	191.00–198.00	196.54
Beef/Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,591	186.00–190.00	188.88
Beef/Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
73	—	1,464	194.00–197.00	194.49
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
101	—	1,387	202.50–206.00	202.79
9	—	1,524	203.50	203.50
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,347	195.50–199.50	197.37
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,492	197.50–198.50	198.08
10	—	1,507	197.50	197.50
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,336	196.00–199.75	198.93
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,665	141.00–148.00	144.42
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,326	123.00–134.00	128.23
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
83	—	1,490	135.00–149.00	144.44
25	—	1,522	149.50–162.00	153.57
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	798	62.50–87.00	81.86
24	—	1,270	111.00–122.50	116.47
14	—	1,053	99.00–110.00	104.50
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
42	—	1,456	192.00–194.00	193.27
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,507	167.00	167.00

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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