The Morning Wire / Mississippi / Wed Oct 21, 2026

Mississippi cattle market

The trading day in one page — Wed, Oct 21

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The market in a line

Wed, Oct 21

Choice cutout held near $372.59. 3 Mississippi barns reported 188 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Mississippi, 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	480.87/cwt	$26.67 lower	175	12
400-499 lb	405.69/cwt	$0.13 lower	240	13
500-599 lb	359.10/cwt	$0.79 lower	260	13
600-699 lb	334.02/cwt	$1.08 higher	201	13
700-799 lb	317.08/cwt	$9.51 lower	91	10
800-899 lb	291.00/cwt	$13.95 lower	6	4

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 21 USDA

Choice $372.59, $0.71 lower. Select $355.34, $6.20 lower. The Choice–Select spread stands at $17.25. 91 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 Mississippi barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to last weeks sale feeder steers sold mixed ; feeder heifers sold mixed ; some classes had multiple buyers those classes sold higher ; some classes didn't have much interest, they sold cheaper;
Lucedale Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers sold unevenly steady. Feeder bulls sold 4.00 to 15.00 higher. Slaughter cow sold 5.00 to 10.00 higher and slaughter bulls sold steady. Quality was average and demand was moderate.
Lipscomb Brother's Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: Calves and slaughter cattle sold unevenly steady.
Johnson Stockyard · Mississippi

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	246.72/cwt	$2.12 higher	674
Boner (85% lean)	253.86/cwt	$2.18 lower	1,736
Cutter (90% lean)	258.99/cwt	$0.29 lower	3,550
Premium White	271.13/cwt	$5.48 lower	1,578
Bull (92% lean)	322.35/cwt	$1.96 higher	427

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.