The Morning Wire / Tennessee / Sat Oct 17, 2026

Tennessee cattle market

The trading day in one page — Sat, Oct 17

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The market in a line

Sat, Oct 17

Choice cutout closed $1.67 lower at $372.31. 3 Tennessee barns reported 201 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Tennessee, week of Oct 12 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	430.69/cwt	$13.64 lower	121	14
400-499 lb	416.75/cwt	$13.13 higher	242	14
500-599 lb	373.33/cwt	$11.72 higher	533	14
600-699 lb	349.28/cwt	$13.60 higher	690	14
700-799 lb	335.73/cwt	$3.58 higher	530	11
800-899 lb	322.31/cwt	$3.31 lower	265	11

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 16 USDA

Choice $372.31, $1.67 lower. Select $353.05, $0.43 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $19.26. 135 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 Tennessee barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to last week Feeder Steers/ Bulls 6.00 to 12.00 higher with good quality and strong demand; Feeder Heifer 10.00 lower; Slaughter Cows/ Bulls mostly steady.
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Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	245.39/cwt	$0.49 lower	561
Boner (85% lean)	258.35/cwt	$1.32 higher	2,252
Cutter (90% lean)	259.54/cwt	$1.43 lower	4,167
Premium White	274.19/cwt	$0.65 lower	1,498
Bull (92% lean)	317.49/cwt	$0.36 lower	438

What published

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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.