The Morning Wire / Florida / Mon Oct 26, 2026

Florida cattle market

The trading day in one page — Mon, Oct 26

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The market in a line

Mon, Oct 26

Choice cutout closed $3.65 higher at $369.44. 3 Florida barns reported 173 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Florida, week of Oct 26 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	541.57/cwt	$26.08 higher	477	7
400-499 lb	405.82/cwt	$1.17 lower	319	7
500-599 lb	360.94/cwt	$0.60 higher	205	7
600-699 lb	327.53/cwt	$0.48 lower	67	7
700-799 lb	310.63/cwt	$30.63 higher	8	3
800-899 lb	245.00/cwt	—	2	1

Barn by barn, 500–599 lb steers

Same day, same class USDA

Every barn that sold at least 20 head of this class on Mon, Oct 26, weighted by head. Spread of $24.70 between the top and bottom of 2 barns. An average moves with the cattle that showed up as much as with the buyers in the seats — a yard with better grade will average higher on the same demand. This is where the money landed, not a verdict on the barn.

Barn	State	Average	Head
Arcadia Stockyard (Mon)	FL	379.64/cwt	44
Columbia Livestock Market	FL	354.94/cwt	26

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 26 USDA

Choice $369.44, $3.65 higher. Select $357.56, $4.87 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $11.88. 89 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

391 head traded Oct 17–Oct 23.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	354.50	152
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	225.66	239

At the Florida barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls 1.00 to 2.00 lower. Feeder steers, bulls, and heifers steady to 5.00 higher.
Arcadia Stockyard (Mon) · Florida

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cows sold mostly steady, slaughter bulls sold 13.00 to 14.00 lower. Feeder cattle sold 5.00 to 15.00 higher. Replacement cattle sold steady.
Okeechobee Livestock Auction (Mon) · Florida

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cattle steady. Feeder cattle steady. Feeder and replacement cows' firm.
Columbia Livestock Market · Florida

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	243.48/cwt	$2.44 lower	628
Boner (85% lean)	250.13/cwt	$1.17 lower	1,980
Cutter (90% lean)	253.64/cwt	$1.94 lower	4,027
Premium White	261.10/cwt	$3.64 lower	1,492
Bull (92% lean)	315.79/cwt	$2.96 lower	474

What published

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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.