The Morning Wire / Georgia / Wed Oct 21, 2026

Georgia cattle market

The trading day in one page — Wed, Oct 21

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The market in a line

Wed, Oct 21

Choice cutout held near $372.59. 3 Georgia barns reported 215 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Georgia, 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	456.40/cwt	$5.50 lower	50	8
400-499 lb	403.69/cwt	$22.78 lower	149	13
500-599 lb	364.15/cwt	$4.15 lower	197	13
600-699 lb	344.02/cwt	$9.13 higher	163	13
700-799 lb	327.03/cwt	$6.04 higher	96	10
800-899 lb	297.50/cwt	$17.50 lower	1	1

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 21 USDA

Choice $372.59, $0.71 lower. Select $355.34, $6.20 lower. The Choice–Select spread stands at $17.25. 91 loads traded.

At the Georgia barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows steady, slaughter bulls 4.00 higher, steer, bull, and heifer calves steady, feeder steers 5.00 higher, feeder bulls and heifers mostly steady, replacement cattle mostly steady.
Ashburn · Georgia

Compared to one week ago, slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady, feeder steers lightly tested, feeder bulls sharply higher, feeder heifers unevenly steady, all replacements mostly steady.
Athens · Georgia

Compared to one week ago slaughter cows mostly steady replacements unevenly steady, all classes of feeder cattle lightly tested.
Jackson · Georgia

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	246.72/cwt	$2.12 higher	674
Boner (85% lean)	253.86/cwt	$2.18 lower	1,736
Cutter (90% lean)	258.99/cwt	$0.29 lower	3,550
Premium White	271.13/cwt	$5.48 lower	1,578
Bull (92% lean)	322.35/cwt	$1.96 higher	427

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Source: USDA AMS. Feeder prices and barn comment are Georgia 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.