Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-12-09

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Dec 9
● Final22 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
325 head
▲ 160 vs last sale 165▲ 325 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
19 head
▲ 9 vs last sale 10▲ 19 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $119.39/cwt on 97 head.
Average price
$119.39
97 head · 411 lb average
Value per head Derived
$491
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$82
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$18.93/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+8.16
vs GA average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1421129.4854519thin
Medium and Large 2400122.1348843
Medium and Large 3419110.5546335
One grade step is worth $18.93/cwt here — about $82 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 sale97 hd
119.39
—
GA average16 barns · 1,968 hd
111.23
+8.16
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—Low1,60065.491,0482thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,14036.004101thin

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 · Steers1 lot · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 2515128.94/cwt126.00–132.006644
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1313136.04/cwt130.00–140.004265
Heifers—Medium and Large 3335114.85/cwt110.00–120.003856
Heifers—Medium and Large 2338126.04/cwt124.00–128.004266
Heifers—Medium and Large 3357114.67/cwt110.00–118.004099
Heifers—Medium and Large 2373124.50/cwt120.00–127.0046418
Heifers—Medium and Large 1417130.89/cwt126.00–134.005469
Heifers—Medium and Large 2421120.76/cwt118.00–124.0050811
Heifers—Medium and Large 3428112.65/cwt110.00–116.004829
Heifers—Medium and Large 2477115.77/cwt114.00–118.005528
Heifers—Medium and Large 3487104.68/cwt100.00–108.005109
Heifers—Medium and Large 1536120.37/cwt118.00–124.006455
Heifers—Medium and Large 360596.03/cwt92.00–100.005812
Feeder Cattle · Bulls7 lots · lightest first
Bulls—Medium and Large 3365145.10/cwt142.00–148.0053011
Bulls—Medium and Large 2383152.52/cwt150.00–157.005848
Bulls—Medium and Large 3417126.30/cwt120.00–134.0052715
Bulls—Medium and Large 2418136.69/cwt130.00–144.0057111
Bulls—Medium and Large 3474122.79/cwt120.00–126.005828
Bulls—Medium and Large 3528114.73/cwt110.00–118.006065
Bulls—Medium and Large 3584112.42/cwt110.00–116.006575
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls——1,60065.49/cwt65.00–66.001,0482
Slaughter Cattle · Cows1 lot · lightest first
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,14036.00/cwt36.00–36.004101

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.