The Morning Wire / Florida / Mon Oct 19, 2026

Florida cattle market

The trading day in one page — Mon, Oct 19

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The market in a line

Mon, Oct 19

Choice cutout held near $371.58. 3 Florida barns reported 158 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Florida, week of Oct 19 USDA

Weighted across every reported lot, by weight class. Weekly rather than daily — one day's barns are too thin a base for a state figure. Watch the barn count: a weight class carried by one or two barns is a thin figure, not a market.

Weight	Price	vs prior week	Head	Barns
300-399 lb	515.49/cwt	$37.80 lower	451	7
400-499 lb	406.99/cwt	$3.64 lower	358	7
500-599 lb	360.34/cwt	$0.45 lower	257	7
600-699 lb	328.01/cwt	$6.13 lower	107	7
700-799 lb	280.00/cwt	$5.29 higher	2	2

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 19 USDA

Choice $371.58, $0.73 lower. Select $359.91, $6.86 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $11.67. 104 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

24,753 head traded Oct 10–Oct 16.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	353.40	3,231
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed FOB	350.84	679
Iowa-Minnesota	Live Delivered	225.48	73
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	223.03	5,858
Nebraska	Dressed Delivered	351.23	9,484
Nebraska	Dressed FOB	354.00	639

At the Florida barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady. Feeder steers and bulls mostly steady, feeder heifers 3.00 to 6.00 lower.
Arcadia Stockyard (Mon) · Florida

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cattle mostly steady. Feeder cattle unevenly steady. Replacement type cows 3.00 to 5.00 lower.
Columbia Livestock Market · Florida

Compared to two weeks ago: Slaughter cattle sold 1.00 to 8.00 lower. Feeder cattle sold sharply lower. Replacement cattle sold steady.
Okeechobee Livestock Auction (Mon) · Florida

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	253.23/cwt	$7.83 higher	607
Boner (85% lean)	257.45/cwt	$0.90 lower	2,166
Cutter (90% lean)	258.95/cwt	$0.59 lower	4,122
Premium White	268.75/cwt	$5.43 lower	1,221
Bull (92% lean)	319.76/cwt	$2.27 higher	390

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Source: USDA AMS. Feeder prices and barn comment are Florida only; boxed beef, fed cattle and the cow market are national, because those markets are. Every figure is USDA's as filed, and the direction words — higher, lower, steady— follow the arithmetic rather than an opinion. Quoted comment is the work of USDA market reporters, credited to the sale it came from. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of USDA data, not a copy of USDA's document and not endorsed by USDA.