Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-09-23

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Sep 23
● Final22 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
225 head
▲ 151 vs last sale 74▲ 225 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
18 head
▲ 3 vs last sale 15▲ 18 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
21 head
▲ 3 vs last sale 18▲ 21 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows steady, slaughter bulls 1.00 lower, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls unevenly steady, steer calves lightly tested, heifer calves and bull calves steady to 2.00 lower, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $107.00/cwt on 54 head.
Average price
$107.00
54 head · 469 lb average
Value per head Derived
$502
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$6
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$11.38/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+1.06
vs GA average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2442114.1750420
Medium and Large 3485102.7849834
One grade step is worth $11.38/cwt here — about $6 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale54 hd
107.00
—
GA average16 barns · 1,516 hd
105.94
+1.06
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Low1,32270.919373thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,25048.346044thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low98545.704502thin

Every lot

22 lots · USDA AMS · South Central Livestock - Fitzgerald, GA
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 · Steers2 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 3515122.52/cwt120.00–125.006314
Steers—Medium and Large 3565113.03/cwt110.00–116.006394
Feeder Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 3365112.88/cwt110.00–116.004124
Heifers—Medium and Large 2372115.84/cwt110.00–120.004316
Heifers—Medium and Large 2435116.02/cwt110.00–120.005058
Heifers—Medium and Large 3435108.06/cwt104.00–114.004706
Heifers—Medium and Large 3460103.97/cwt100.00–110.0047810
Heifers—Medium and Large 351398.40/cwt95.00–104.005056
Heifers—Medium and Large 2520110.03/cwt108.00–112.005726
Heifers—Medium and Large 355897.07/cwt92.00–102.005424
Heifers—Medium and Large 362594.10/cwt90.00–98.005884
Feeder Cattle · Bulls6 lots · lightest first
Bulls—Medium and Large 2410126.88/cwt120.00–132.0052010
Bulls—Medium and Large 3423123.93/cwt120.00–128.005244
Bulls—Medium and Large 3460112.04/cwt110.00–114.005154
Bulls—Medium and Large 2515113.26/cwt110.00–118.005836
Bulls—Medium and Large 3520103.23/cwt100.00–108.005376
Bulls—Medium and Large 365893.96/cwt90.00–98.006186
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls——1,32270.91/cwt68.00–74.009373
Slaughter Cattle · Cows2 lots · lightest first
Cows—Lean 85-90%98545.70/cwt43.00–48.004502
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,25048.34/cwt45.00–51.006044
Replacement Cattle · Cow-Calf Pairs2 lots · lightest first
Cow-Calf Pairs—Medium and Large 2-31,083890.36/cwt850.00–925.009,6434
Cow-Calf Pairs—Medium and Large 1-21,3681,058.40/cwt1,000.00–1,150.0014,4796

This sale against other markets

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