The Morning Wire / Missouri / Mon Oct 26, 2026

Missouri 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. 4 Missouri barns reported 224 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Missouri, 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	505.66/cwt	$5.49 higher	310	13
400-499 lb	465.97/cwt	$16.14 higher	1,184	18
500-599 lb	414.30/cwt	$12.36 higher	2,494	18
600-699 lb	381.66/cwt	$15.45 higher	1,945	18
700-799 lb	359.57/cwt	$9.98 higher	1,964	17
800-899 lb	342.41/cwt	$15.02 higher	2,056	13

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 $14.49 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
Callaway Livestock Center	MO	416.73/cwt	150
Tina Livestock	MO	407.54/cwt	56
Joplin Regional Stockyards	MO	402.25/cwt	718

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 Missouri barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

CLOSE Compared to last week feeder steers under 600 lbs. sold steady to 6.00 lower. Steers weighing over 600 lbs. sold 3.00-14.00 higher with the exception of light eight weight steers which sold 20.00 higher. Feeder heifers sold from 2.00-16.00 higher. Supply was heavy with very good demand.
Joplin Regional Stockyards · Missouri

Compared to last week, steer calves and feeder steers weighing 400-700 lbs all sold with a firm to higher undertone on limited comparisons with the best test on 500-550 lb steer calves trading firm to 5.00 higher, over 800 lbs were scarce.
Callaway Livestock Center · Missouri

Compared to last week calves sold firm with a light supply and limited comparisons slaughter cows and bulls trading with a higher undertone with spots as much as $5.00 higher
Tina Livestock · Missouri

Compared to last week, slaughter cows and bulls sold mostly steady to 2.00 lower. Demand was moderate on a heavy supply.
Springfield Livestock Marketing Center · Missouri

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 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.