The Morning Wire / Georgia / Wed Oct 28, 2026

Georgia cattle market

The trading day in one page — Wed, Oct 28

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Wed, Oct 28

Choice cutout closed $3.22 lower at $369.00. 3 Georgia barns reported 261 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Georgia, 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	470.61/cwt	$14.21 higher	95	13
400-499 lb	415.24/cwt	$11.55 higher	217	14
500-599 lb	372.26/cwt	$8.11 higher	263	13
600-699 lb	340.04/cwt	$3.98 lower	234	13
700-799 lb	313.14/cwt	$13.89 lower	85	11
800-899 lb	270.00/cwt	$27.50 lower	1	1

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 28 USDA

Choice $369.00, $3.22 lower. Select $355.25, $3.60 lower. The Choice–Select spread stands at $13.75. 107 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

11,551 head traded Oct 22–Oct 28.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	357.12	1,980
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed FOB	355.00	256
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	224.23	4,381
Nebraska	Dressed Delivered	351.19	3,735
Nebraska	Dressed FOB	353.00	885
Nebraska	Live FOB	224.36	314

At the Georgia barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to one week ago, slaughter cows and slaughter bulls unevenly steady, feeder steers, feeder heifers unevenly steady, feeder bulls steady and replacement cows steady.
Ashburn · Georgia

Compared to one week ago, slaughter cows and bulls 3.00 to 5.00 lower, feeder steers and heifers unevenly steady, feeder bulls steady to 5.00 higher, replacement cows mostly steady.
Athens · Georgia

Compared to a week ago, Slaughter cows 3.00 to 5.00 higher, Replacement cows mostly steady, Feeder steers 4.00 to 8.00 higher, Feeder heifers 5.00 to 8.00 higher, Feeder bulls 6.00 to 10.00 higher.
Jackson · Georgia

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	244.29/cwt	$3.13 higher	558
Boner (85% lean)	251.31/cwt	$2.50 higher	1,757
Cutter (90% lean)	254.76/cwt	$2.00 higher	3,900
Premium White	264.63/cwt	$0.12 lower	1,586
Bull (92% lean)	309.89/cwt	$2.03 lower	428

What published

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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.