South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

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Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 76 priced lines covering 5,510 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 5,663 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 799 head.

Mon Aug 17, 2026

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 5,663Last week 4,481Year ago 6,752

Slaughter CattleReceipts 799Last week 1,585Year ago 1,137

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers 6.00 to 15.00 lower. Moderate demand for yearlings this week as the cash fat cattle market and cattle futures complex continue to weaken. Cash fat cattle on Friday as low as 222.00. Cattle feeders are struggling to get cattle bought that have break even prices low enough to match where the Live Cattle futures contracts are at for the coming months. Packers have cut their kills in order to support the boxed beef market, but that wasn't enough to keep it from declining. Yearlings are coming off grass, but with recent rains and the downturn in the market, yearling operators haven't been in as big of a push to get cattle sold which resulted in few feeder cattle in town at the auctions this week.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
121	1000–1050	1,031	291.50	291.50
9	1050–1100	1,064	258.00	258.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
26	750–800	789	342.50	342.50
6	800–850	833	290.00	290.00
5	900–950	942	293.00	293.00
36	950–1000	963	286.00–292.00	290.52
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	500–550	501	429.00	429.00
4	550–600	566	450.00	450.00
6	600–650	647	390.00	390.00
27	650–700	669	340.00–375.00	362.70
12	700–750	737	310.00	310.00
15	800–850	840	315.00–328.00	324.51
7	850–900	866	323.00	323.00
13	900–950	930	297.00	297.00
21	950–1000	982	291.00–295.00	293.65
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	550–600	581	460.00	460.00
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	1150–1200	1,163	266.00	266.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	350–400	386	515.00	515.00
13	500–550	519	457.50	457.50
3	600–650	610	410.00	410.00
20	700–750	724	353.00–369.00	358.43
21	750–800	772	357.00	357.00
104	800–850	815	332.00–350.00	347.08
237	850–900	877	305.00–332.00	326.20
280	900–950	923	315.00–336.75	325.70
281	950–1000	966	296.00–318.00	315.44
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
261	1000–1050	1,029	296.50–308.50	302.56
739	1050–1100	1,077	289.00–307.00	294.85
40	1100–1150	1,127	265.00–287.00	281.44
71	1150–1200	1,166	270.00–281.50	277.78
29	1200–1250	1,235	248.00	248.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	375	485.00	485.00
4	400–450	421	430.00	430.00
43	550–600	567	393.00–410.00	395.95
38	600–650	616	385.00–400.00	386.93
21	650–700	675	342.00–380.00	369.41
37	700–750	705	347.00	347.00
146	750–800	782	302.00–341.00	321.01
511	800–850	836	294.00–310.00	305.73
458	850–900	888	287.75–310.50	295.61
552	900–950	915	280.00–310.00	303.40
43	950–1000	973	312.00	312.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	300–350	327	535.00	535.00
7	500–550	549	405.00	405.00
4	550–600	575	395.00	395.00
13	650–700	678	330.00–347.50	338.03
28	800–850	804	305.00	305.00
11	900–950	938	283.00	283.00
10	950–1000	982	284.00	284.00
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	1000–1050	1,016	284.50–298.00	293.81
10	1050–1100	1,075	292.00	292.00
17	1150–1200	1,150	263.00	263.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	600–650	616	418.00	418.00
Heifers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	1000–1050	1,029	266.00	266.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
7	500–550	544	380.00	380.00
127	600–650	642	364.00	364.00
18	750–800	775	290.00–300.00	293.78
17	800–850	819	298.00–301.00	298.87
106	900–950	929	276.00–279.00	276.16
239	950–1000	970	270.00–286.50	277.67
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	950–1000	992	262.00	262.00
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
162	1000–1050	1,016	266.50	266.50
14	1150–1200	1,167	238.50	238.50
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	383	475.00	475.00
11	650–700	664	404.00	404.00
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	500–550	524	355.00	355.00
Beef/Dairy Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	950–1000	952	269.00	269.00
Dairy Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	1050–1100	1,097	199.00	199.00
Beef/Dairy Steers — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
6	700–750	748	332.50	332.50

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,407	223.00–229.00	224.44
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,229	237.00	237.00
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
127	—	1,548	225.75–227.50	226.64
40	—	1,457	223.00–228.00	224.91
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,479	237.00–238.00	237.76
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
79	—	1,662	225.00–228.50	226.60
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,566	220.00	220.00

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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