Sale reports / Arkansas / I-40 Livestock Auction / 2025-09-09

I-40 Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Ozark, Arkansas · Tue, Sep 9
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 3662
Receipts
1,308 head
▲ 688 vs last sale 620▲ 254 vs year ago 1,054 · +24.1%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Trade active and Demand good for all weights. Next sale scheduled for Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $391.32/cwt on 157 head. That ranks 2 of 3 comparable sales and sits −19.54 against this barn's trailing median of $410.85.
Average price
$391.32
157 head · 552 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,158
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$153
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$23.15/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+14.34
vs AR average
+22.98 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1552394.712,181134
Medium and Large 1-2546371.562,02823
One grade step is worth $23.15/cwt here — about $153 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 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 sale157 hd
391.32
—
AR average9 barns · 777 hd
376.97
+14.34
National average171 barns · 13,169 hd
368.34
+22.98
This barn, trailing median3 sales
410.85
−19.54
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
429407385363median 410.8503/1003/1004/1409/1509/15
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

23 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers12 lots · lightest first
Steers450–500Medium and Large 2Thin Fleshed465400.00/cwt400.00–400.001,8605
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1Value Added495465.00/cwt465.00–465.002,30218
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1Value Added508471.00/cwt471.00–471.002,39329
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1542431.14/cwt430.00–435.002,33726
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1572390.00/cwt390.00–390.002,2317
Steers600–650Medium and Large 2Thin Fleshed605385.00/cwt385.00–385.002,32911
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1607417.50/cwt417.50–417.502,53410
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1Value Added632418.25/cwt418.00–419.002,643179
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1-2666367.00/cwt367.00–367.002,44415
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1694382.44/cwt381.00–382.502,65491
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1753376.69/cwt372.50–379.002,83665
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1802347.00/cwt347.00–347.002,783133
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers350–400Medium and Large 1371430.00/cwt430.00–430.001,5955
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1Value Added518400.00/cwt400.00–400.002,07221
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed526405.00/cwt405.00–405.002,13011
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed535399.50/cwt399.50–399.502,13768
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1-2564340.91/cwt334.00–346.001,92312
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1Value Added595385.00/cwt385.00–385.002,29145
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1609389.50/cwt389.50–389.502,37242
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1Value Added669352.84/cwt351.00–365.002,36082
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1687344.82/cwt330.00–347.502,369110
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1-2727312.94/cwt296.00–325.002,27574
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1759324.55/cwt322.50–325.002,463335

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.