The Morning Wire / Mississippi / Wed Aug 5, 2026

Mississippi cattle market

The trading day in one page — Wed, Aug 5
3 barns reportedEvery figure as filed

The market in a line

Wed, Aug 5
Choice cutout closed $1.68 lower at $367.97. 3 Mississippi barns reported 214 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Mississippi, week of Aug 3 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 lb502.71/cwt$9.46 higher14711
400-499 lb427.54/cwt$7.76 higher21212
500-599 lb382.90/cwt$9.39 higher36213
600-699 lb351.43/cwt$9.47 lower33712
700-799 lb326.98/cwt$3.94 higher8111
800-899 lb319.75/cwt$13.44 higher205

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Aug 5 USDA
Choice $367.97, $1.68 lower. Select $348.06, $1.56 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $19.91. 109 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA
30,529 head traded Jul 30Aug 5.
RegionBasisPriceHead
Iowa-MinnesotaDressed Delivered373.722,639
Iowa-MinnesotaDressed FOB365.0070
Iowa-MinnesotaLive Delivered235.821,542
Iowa-MinnesotaLive FOB234.227,582
KansasDressed Delivered370.0039
KansasLive FOB232.881,441

At the Mississippi barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to Last Weeks sale Feeder Steers sold 5.00-20.00 Higher; Most Classes of Feeder Heifers sold 5.00 - 19.00 Higher , with a few classes selling 27.00-33.00 Higher ; Feeder yearling groups were reported as #1-2s and weaned groups were marked Added Value;

Lucedale Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: Steers, heifers and bulls all sold 10-20 Higher. Slaughter cows sold steady-3 higher, slaughter bulls sold 3-7 higher.

Johnson Stockyard · Mississippi

Compared to last week: feeder cattle sold 2.00 to 20.00 higher. Slaughter cows and bulls sold steady. Quality was mostly attractive and demand was much better.

Lipscomb Brother's Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA
ClassPriceDirectionHead
Breaker (75% lean)319.67/cwt$3.57 higher382
Boner (85% lean)334.53/cwt$2.41 lower1,556
Cutter (90% lean)332.70/cwt$5.57 lower2,919
Premium White327.74/cwt$0.50 lower2,087
Bull (92% lean)376.94/cwt$0.98 higher358

What published

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