The Morning Wire / Tennessee / Sat Aug 8, 2026

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Tennessee cattle market

The trading day in one page — Sat, Aug 8
● 3 barns reportedEvery figure as filed
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The market in a line

Sat, Aug 8
Choice cutout held near $364.36. 3 Tennessee barns reported 186 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Tennessee, 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 lb489.59/cwt$38.38 higher12813
400-499 lb446.48/cwt$10.15 higher32115
500-599 lb418.58/cwt$25.24 higher67115
600-699 lb388.47/cwt$26.52 higher84415
700-799 lb355.83/cwt$29.18 higher41715
800-899 lb341.21/cwt$19.15 higher18811

Barn by barn, 500–599 lb steers

Same day, same class USDA
Every barn that sold at least 20 head of this class on Sat, Aug 8, weighted by head. Spread of $18.79 between the top and bottom of 2 barns. An average moves with the cattle that showed up as much as with the buyers in the seats — a yard with better grade will average higher on the same demand. This is where the money landed, not a verdict on the barn.
BarnStateAverageHead
Carthage Livestock AuctionTN412.29/cwt32
Crossville Livestock AuctionTN393.50/cwt21

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Aug 7 USDA
Choice $364.36, $0.50 higher. Select $352.37, $2.59 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $11.99. 60 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA
48,598 head traded Aug 1–Aug 7.
RegionBasisPriceHead
Iowa-MinnesotaDressed Delivered375.393,154
Iowa-MinnesotaLive Delivered239.181,090
Iowa-MinnesotaLive FOB235.326,326
KansasDressed Delivered370.0039
KansasLive FOB234.943,813
NebraskaDressed Delivered370.3914,747

At the Tennessee barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

No trends could be established on Feeder Cattle due to lack of comparable data however all classes of Feeders traded higher; Slaughter Cattle 2.00 to 3.00 lower on a light test.

Carthage Livestock Auction · Tennessee

No trends established due to lack of comparable sales. However mostly steady undertones noted.

Crossville Livestock Auction · Tennessee

Compared to last week, slaughter cows sold 3.00 to 8.00 lower with no comparisons available for slaughter bulls or feeder classes due to limited comparable receipts, however, a higher undertone and higher-quality offerings was noted for feeder cattle.

Greenville Livestock Auction - Greenville, TN · Tennessee

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA
ClassPriceDirectionHead
Breaker (75% lean)310.76/cwt$3.42 lower452
Boner (85% lean)328.33/cwt$0.72 lower1,842
Cutter (90% lean)329.75/cwt$0.57 lower2,875
Premium White325.78/cwt$0.05 lower1,617
Bull (92% lean)373.00/cwt$2.25 lower383

What published

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Every USDA report carried this date is listed in the archive.
Source: USDA AMS. Feeder prices and barn comment are Tennessee 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.