South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 82 priced lines covering 10,937 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 11,428 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 728 head.

Mon Jun 9, 2025

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 11,428Last week 20,492Year ago 14,817

Slaughter CattleReceipts 728Last week 991Year ago 742

Compared to last week: More limited feeder cattle offerings as many auction markets move to their bi-weekly summer schedules, feeder steers and heifers sold unevenly steady. Very good demand for light fall calves to background and for yearlings to go right into finishing yards. The cash fed cattle started to trade higher, up to 244.00 but then at late week sales of 238.00-240.00 surfaced and the futures contracts posted large losses on Friday. There is much optimism amongst cattle producers regardless of where the futures contracts are at as the market reached highs that most did not think could be achieved. The cash market has outperformed the futures and continues to do so, causing producers to pay little attention to it. Cattle are turned out to grass and auction receipts are light, except when a special BBQ sale is held offering long strings of backgrounded steers and heifers. The market is very active as cattle feeders know they need to act quick or they will not get the cattle bought that they need. Corn is growing nicely and pastures are in decent shape, looking positive for a fruitful growing season.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	388	420.00	420.00
9	400–450	445	375.00	375.00
11	500–550	544	322.50–340.00	333.61
11	550–600	590	315.00–350.00	340.67
45	600–650	618	310.00–348.00	329.55
30	650–700	688	310.00	310.00
11	750–800	795	286.00	286.00
8	800–850	827	267.00	267.00
18	850–900	852	266.00	266.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
28	550–600	554	384.00	384.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
28	400–450	416	385.00–455.00	406.99
79	450–500	485	370.00–457.50	383.69
57	500–550	522	371.00–400.00	392.60
163	550–600	587	347.00–380.00	357.54
128	600–650	621	326.00–372.50	356.57
68	650–700	679	325.00–341.00	331.19
90	700–750	724	295.00–317.00	308.10
215	750–800	765	286.00–314.00	303.03
251	800–850	838	273.00–300.00	286.72
398	850–900	879	267.50–290.50	282.80
810	900–950	928	264.00–292.50	281.79
662	950–1000	972	251.00–279.50	272.09
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
12	800–850	830	314.00	314.00
147	900–950	913	2,670.00–2,710.00	2,677.87
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
174	1000–1050	1,014	264.00–286.50	278.14
15	1050–1100	1,057	251.00–255.00	252.06
52	1100–1150	1,107	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
150	1000–1050	1,015	241.50–246.50	244.47
177	1050–1100	1,058	241.50	241.50
82	1150–1200	1,192	240.50	240.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	800–850	816	269.50	269.50
116	950–1000	982	242.50	242.50
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
16	650–700	693	320.00	320.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	400–450	431	412.50	412.50
6	500–550	523	392.00	392.00
7	600–650	649	357.00	357.00
21	650–700	678	320.00–346.00	337.35
78	750–800	787	270.00–325.00	314.41
5	850–900	895	261.00	261.00
78	900–950	912	293.00	293.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	395	490.00	490.00
7	400–450	417	440.00–470.00	452.95
74	450–500	487	395.00–417.50	401.02
47	500–550	524	392.00–439.00	416.47
57	550–600	578	382.50–385.00	384.21
165	600–650	616	371.00–408.00	387.83
36	650–700	665	359.00–390.00	369.55
107	700–750	724	331.00–366.00	349.75
136	750–800	783	328.00–349.00	335.23
178	800–850	815	315.00–331.00	326.25
189	850–900	879	287.50–311.00	299.85
481	900–950	937	282.00–307.50	293.76
1,656	950–1000	973	274.00–297.50	292.25
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
5	700–750	746	323.00	323.00
14	850–900	891	284.00	284.00
Steers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
53	1050–1100	1,087	258.50	258.50
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	1000–1050	1,002	236.00	236.00
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
66	900–950	939	284.50	284.50
1,387	1000–1050	1,023	254.00–288.00	283.51
1,310	1050–1100	1,075	261.75–287.00	276.63
50	1100–1150	1,102	275.75	275.75
106	1150–1200	1,185	261.50	261.50
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	350–400	397	465.00	465.00
11	850–900	870	232.50	232.50
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	500–550	534	397.50	397.50
4	600–650	635	352.50	352.50
Beef/Dairy Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	1100–1150	1,146	234.00	234.00
3	1250–1300	1,283	217.00	217.00
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	1200–1250	1,224	236.00	236.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
82	—	1,418	238.00–240.00	239.01
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,233	235.00	235.00
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,509	243.50	243.50
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	1,495	197.00–203.00	200.85
6	—	1,586	216.00	216.00
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,335	232.50	232.50
103	—	1,435	231.50–238.00	236.02
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,650	244.00	244.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,480	238.00	238.00
88	—	1,546	238.00–240.00	239.38
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,431	235.75–237.00	236.70
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,692	238.00–239.25	238.64
Beef/Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	1,495	230.00–240.00	235.44

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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