The Morning Wire / Missouri / Tue Aug 18, 2026

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Missouri cattle market

The trading day in one page — Tue, Aug 18
● 3 barns reportedEvery figure as filed
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The market in a line

Tue, Aug 18
Choice cutout closed $11.58 higher at $391.15. 3 Missouri barns reported 113 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Missouri, week of Aug 17 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.
WeightPricevs prior weekHeadBarns
300-399 lb509.62/cwt$35.78 lower1297
400-499 lb444.36/cwt$31.45 lower2917
500-599 lb398.39/cwt$20.87 lower6617
600-699 lb380.09/cwt$5.85 lower6417
700-799 lb337.11/cwt$19.60 lower8517
800-899 lb322.94/cwt$16.11 lower7034

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Aug 18 USDA
Choice $391.15, $11.58 higher. Select $366.29, $2.03 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $24.86. 118 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA
23,779 head traded Aug 12–Aug 18.
RegionBasisPriceHead
Iowa-MinnesotaDressed Delivered363.502,377
Iowa-MinnesotaLive Delivered230.5826
Iowa-MinnesotaLive FOB227.603,366
KansasDressed Delivered360.00156
KansasLive FOB228.00117
NebraskaDressed Delivered363.6711,426

At the Missouri barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Lolli Livestock held a Special Bred Cow/Heifer sale Tuesday with a couple of nice consignments of good quality bred heifers in the 3rd stage selling with good demand also in the offering was a nice consignment of good quality 5-6 yr old cows in the 3rd stage also selling with good demand.

Lolli Brothers Livestock Market · Missouri

The feeder calve offering was too small for a trend comparison, undertones were lower. A few slaughter cows and bulls traded 5.00 lower; Demand not establish and supply light.

SEMO Livestock Sales · Missouri

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA
ClassPriceDirectionHead
Breaker (75% lean)306.48/cwt$7.43 lower541
Boner (85% lean)328.25/cwt$3.02 higher1,566
Cutter (90% lean)333.46/cwt$10.30 higher2,512
Premium White322.92/cwt$1.15 lower1,896
Bull (92% lean)368.72/cwt$0.56 lower373

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