The Morning Wire / Mississippi / Tue Oct 27, 2026

Mississippi cattle market

The trading day in one page — Tue, Oct 27

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The market in a line

Tue, Oct 27

Choice cutout closed $2.78 higher at $372.22. 3 Mississippi barns reported 174 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Mississippi, 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	502.41/cwt	$21.54 higher	157	13
400-499 lb	431.10/cwt	$25.41 higher	191	12
500-599 lb	365.86/cwt	$6.76 higher	345	13
600-699 lb	337.87/cwt	$3.85 higher	199	12
700-799 lb	317.22/cwt	$0.14 higher	93	12
800-899 lb	310.72/cwt	$19.72 higher	26	8

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 27 USDA

Choice $372.22, $2.78 higher. Select $358.85, $1.29 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $13.37. 120 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

671 head traded Oct 21–Oct 27.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	361.31	432
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	225.66	239

At the Mississippi barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to last weeks sale feeder steers sold 5.00-35.00 Higher; feeder heifers under 500# sold 20.00-50.00 Higher; heifers over 500# sold weaker; feeder yearling groups were weaned with shots and were reported as #1-2s and had added value; slaughter cows sold 1.00-3.00 lower ;
Tylertown Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: Feeder calves sold 5.00 - 20.00 higher. Slaughter cows sold steady. Slaughter bulls sold 5.00 - 10.00 higher.
Philadelphia Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: It was a light run, all classes looked mostly steady but really to lightly tested to call an accurate trend.
Winona Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	241.16/cwt	$2.32 lower	575
Boner (85% lean)	248.81/cwt	$1.32 lower	1,608
Cutter (90% lean)	252.76/cwt	$0.88 lower	3,103
Premium White	264.75/cwt	$3.66 higher	892
Bull (92% lean)	311.92/cwt	$3.87 lower	379

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.