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I-40 Livestock Auction

Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-14

Feeder Cattle · Ozark, Arkansas · Tue, Jan 14

● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 3662

← Dec 10Jan 14Feb 11 →

Receipts

656 head

▼ 19 vs last sale 675▲ 656 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

Also sold hereRegular saleThu Oct 29, 2026

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Next sale scheduled for Tuesday February 11, 2025. Demand good

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $294.76/cwt on 160 head. That ranks 1 of 3 comparable sales and sits −116.10 against this barn's trailing median of $410.85.

Average price

$294.76

160 head · 543 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,601

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$7

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$17.27/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+9.61

vs AR average

−9.27 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	540	296.27	1,600	146
Medium and Large 1-2	576	279.00	1,607	14thin

One grade step is worth $17.27/cwt here — about −$7 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale160 hd

294.76

—

AR average7 barns · 685 hd

285.14

+9.61

National average192 barns · 30,803 hd

304.03

−9.27

This barn, trailing median3 sales

410.85

−116.10

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

3 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $414.81, low $377.14, median $410.85 across 3 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

28 lots · USDA AMS · I-40 Livestock Feeder Cattle Pot Load Sale - Ozark, AR

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers14 lots · lightest first
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Value Added	452	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	1,559	9
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	491	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,669	16
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Value Added	517	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	1,861	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	530	347.25/cwt	341.00–351.00	1,840	16
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Value Added	594	300.07/cwt	299.00–306.00	1,782	39
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 2	631	237.00/cwt	237.00–237.00	1,495	7
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	638	299.92/cwt	291.00–314.00	1,913	35
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	644	288.00/cwt	288.00–288.00	1,855	12
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	654	259.00/cwt	259.00–259.00	1,694	10
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Value Added	668	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	1,964	26
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	696	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,942	14
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Value Added	739	285.00/cwt	285.00–285.00	2,106	19
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Value Added	794	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	2,064	27
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	846	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	2,123	7
Feeder Cattle · Heifers14 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	404	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,353	7
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	428	320.00/cwt	320.00–320.00	1,370	8
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	460	297.00/cwt	297.00–297.00	1,366	4
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	299.03/cwt	292.00–306.00	1,561	81
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Value Added	557	295.52/cwt	295.00–297.00	1,646	38
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	571	289.04/cwt	285.00–293.00	1,650	27
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	576	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,607	14
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 2	602	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	1,391	9
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	609	266.00/cwt	266.00–266.00	1,620	42
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	621	272.61/cwt	270.00–274.00	1,693	12
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	656	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	1,706	28
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	671	248.00/cwt	248.00–248.00	1,664	61
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Value Added	679	265.09/cwt	262.00–270.00	1,800	62
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	754	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,893	5

This sale against other markets

Arkansas weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Arkansas auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

Arkansas feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

I-40 Livestock Feeder Cattle Pot Load Sale - Ozark, AR

Tue Jan 14, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Little Rock, AR (LS-LR)

Receipts 656Last week 675Year ago 0

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Next sale scheduled for Tuesday February 11, 2025. Demand good

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	450–500	491	340.00	340.00
16	500–550	530	341.00–351.00	347.25
35	600–650	638	291.00–314.00	299.92
14	650–700	696	279.00	279.00
7	800–850	846	251.00	251.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	452	345.00	345.00
6	500–550	517	360.00	360.00
39	550–600	594	299.00–306.00	300.07
26	650–700	668	294.00	294.00
19	700–750	739	285.00	285.00
27	750–800	794	260.00	260.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
12	600–650	644	288.00	288.00
10	650–700	654	259.00	259.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	600–650	631	237.00	237.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	400–450	404	335.00	335.00
4	450–500	460	297.00	297.00
81	500–550	522	292.00–306.00	299.03
27	550–600	571	285.00–293.00	289.04
12	600–650	621	270.00–274.00	272.61
28	650–700	656	260.00	260.00
5	750–800	754	251.00	251.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
38	550–600	557	295.00–297.00	295.52
62	650–700	679	262.00–270.00	265.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	400–450	428	320.00	320.00
14	550–600	576	279.00	279.00
42	600–650	609	266.00	266.00
61	650–700	671	248.00	248.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	600–650	602	231.00	231.00

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.