The Morning Wire / Mississippi / Wed Oct 28, 2026

Mississippi cattle market

The trading day in one page — Wed, Oct 28

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The market in a line

Wed, Oct 28

Choice cutout closed $3.22 lower at $369.00. 4 Mississippi barns reported 264 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 28 USDA

Choice $369.00, $3.22 lower. Select $355.25, $3.60 lower. The Choice–Select spread stands at $13.75. 107 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

11,551 head traded Oct 22–Oct 28.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	357.12	1,980
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed FOB	355.00	256
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	224.23	4,381
Nebraska	Dressed Delivered	351.19	3,735
Nebraska	Dressed FOB	353.00	885
Nebraska	Live FOB	224.36	314

At the Mississippi barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to last weeks sale , didn't have very many number 1 steers most number 1s were bulls . However some steer classes under 400# sold 1.00-20.00 lower ; steers over 400# sold steady to 15.00 higher; feeder heifers sold mixed just depending on buyers orders ;
Lucedale Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: feeder cattle sold unevenly steady. Slaughter cows sold steady to 5 higher. Quality was average and demand was moderate.
Lipscomb Brother's Livestock Auction · Mississippi

As compared to the last market: Feeder steers sold crazy HIGH.15.00-25.00 higher in spots. Heifers sold steady to a little higher in spots. Slaughter cattle sold steady.
Brookhaven Livestock Auction · Mississippi

Compared to last week: Steers, heifers and bulls calves sold steady to 10 higher. Slaughter cattle sold steady.
Johnson Stockyard · Mississippi

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	244.29/cwt	$3.13 higher	558
Boner (85% lean)	251.31/cwt	$2.50 higher	1,757
Cutter (90% lean)	254.76/cwt	$2.00 higher	3,900
Premium White	264.63/cwt	$0.12 lower	1,586
Bull (92% lean)	309.89/cwt	$2.03 lower	428

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.