The Morning Wire / Missouri / Mon Oct 19, 2026

Missouri 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. 4 Missouri barns reported 220 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Missouri, 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	500.17/cwt	$7.66 higher	265	13
400-499 lb	449.83/cwt	$8.73 higher	1,229	15
500-599 lb	401.94/cwt	$0.52 lower	1,833	15
600-699 lb	366.21/cwt	$7.79 lower	2,080	15
700-799 lb	349.59/cwt	$0.56 higher	1,869	12
800-899 lb	327.39/cwt	$4.89 lower	1,502	11

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 19, weighted by head. Spread of $20.68 between the top and bottom of 3 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
Tina Livestock	MO	420.93/cwt	44
Callaway Livestock Center	MO	415.74/cwt	196
Joplin Regional Stockyards	MO	400.25/cwt	491

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 Missouri barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

CLOSE Compared to last week heavy four weight and light five weight steers sold 30.00-60.00 higher. Heavy five weight up to eight weight steers sold steady to 8.00 lower. Heavier weights sold 2.00-7.00 higher. Feeder heifers sold from 10.00 lower to 8.00 higher.
Joplin Regional Stockyards · Missouri

Compared to last week, 400-500 lb steer calves were not well tested, with 500-600 lbs selling steady to 10.00 lower, 600-700 lbs steers didn't have the overall quality or weighing conditions to match up well with last week's offering and sold with a lower undertone, pot load of 852 lb steers sold 7.…
Callaway Livestock Center · Missouri

Compared to last week calves are still in tight hands with steer and heifer calves trading mostly steady with some yearling cattle still coming to town and also trading mostly steady with last week.
Tina Livestock · Missouri

Compared to last week, slaughter cows sold 1.00 to 3.00 higher and slaughter bulls were mostly steady. Demand was good on a moderate supply.
Springfield Livestock Marketing Center · Missouri

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

What published

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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.