The Morning Wire / Mississippi / Tue Aug 18, 2026

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Mississippi cattle market

The trading day in one page — Tue, Aug 18
● 3 barns reportedEvery figure as filed
← Aug 17Aug 18Aug 19 →

The market in a line

Tue, Aug 18
Choice cutout closed $11.58 higher at $391.15. 3 Mississippi barns reported 215 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Mississippi, 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 lb498.78/cwt$4.46 lower14011
400-499 lb414.21/cwt$19.55 lower18111
500-599 lb368.88/cwt$10.95 lower27010
600-699 lb341.85/cwt$17.27 lower22210
700-799 lb325.37/cwt$9.33 lower10710
800-899 lb299.41/cwt$12.79 lower167

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 Mississippi barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

As compared to last weeks market: Feeder cattle sold steady to $10.00 higher in spots. Slaughter cattle sold lower $2.00- $10.00. Some really nice heifers @490lbs = $5.65, 575lbs = $602.50, 545lbs = $ 5.40.

Tylertown Livestock Auction · Mississippi

As compared to the last market: Feeder calves sold mixed, sold some really good calves that brought very good money. Slaughter cattle sold steady.

Brookhaven Livestock Auction · Mississippi

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 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.