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Clarinda Livestock Auction

Name: Clarinda Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-03
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-03

Feeder Cattle · Clarinda, Iowa · Thu, Apr 3

● Final29 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2166

← Mar 27Apr 3Apr 10 →

Receipts

778 head

▼ 1,028 vs last sale 1,806▲ 778 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the feeder calf auction one week ago (March 27) market results, given today's much lower receipts, were fully steady with a lower undertone across all weight class. In today's offering were home-raised, LTW'd and double vaccinated feeder steers and heifers. Demand was good for today's light supply. Trade was active.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $354.45/cwt on 113 head. That ranks 1 of 13 comparable sales and sits −125.90 against this barn's trailing median of $480.35.

Average price

$354.45

113 head · 562 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,994

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$252

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

$60.84/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−19.29

vs IA average

−14.56 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	557	366.30	2,040	91
Medium and Large 1-2	585	305.45	1,788	22

One grade step is worth $60.84/cwt here — about $252 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 sale113 hd

354.45

—

IA average6 barns · 968 hd

373.74

−19.29

National average168 barns · 11,835 hd

369.01

−14.56

This barn, trailing median13 sales

480.35

−125.90

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

13 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $513.77, low $402.05, median $480.35 across 13 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

29 lots · USDA AMS · Clarinda Livestock Feeder Cattle - Clarinda, IA

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	350–400	Medium and Large 1	366	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	1,647	4
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	428	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	1,605	4
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	455	428.93/cwt	427.50–430.00	1,952	19
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Fancy	469	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,923	15
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	394.27/cwt	375.00–405.00	2,070	30
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	529	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,746	4
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	552	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	2,015	23
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fancy	585	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	2,018	38
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	598	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,794	18
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	625	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,750	3
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	627	352.11/cwt	331.00–359.00	2,208	32
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	678	302.09/cwt	285.00–315.00	2,048	9
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fancy	697	287.50/cwt	287.50–287.50	2,004	17
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	845	283.66/cwt	265.00–285.25	2,397	65
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	340	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,360	3
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	368	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	1,509	3
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fancy	413	396.00/cwt	396.00–396.00	1,635	12
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	387.10/cwt	370.00–395.00	1,626	10
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	467	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,284	5
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	489	355.00/cwt	355.00–355.00	1,736	11
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	518	338.29/cwt	317.00–347.50	1,752	31
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	534	295.68/cwt	290.00–305.00	1,579	19
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fancy	539	335.50/cwt	335.50–335.50	1,808	47
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	570	316.42/cwt	315.00–319.00	1,804	11
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	586	266.96/cwt	255.00–277.50	1,564	13
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	613	309.72/cwt	307.50–312.50	1,899	20
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	625	264.34/cwt	260.00–270.00	1,652	31
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	687	273.00/cwt	273.00–273.00	1,876	9
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	734	272.92/cwt	272.50–273.00	2,003	30

This sale against other markets

Iowa weighted averages

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

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

Clarinda Livestock Feeder Cattle - Clarinda, IA

Thu Apr 3, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Des Moines, IA (LS-NW)

Receipts 778Last week 1,806Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
12	400–450	413	396.00	396.00
47	500–550	539	335.50	335.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	300–350	340	400.00	400.00
3	350–400	368	410.00	410.00
10	400–450	420	370.00–395.00	387.10
11	450–500	489	355.00	355.00
31	500–550	518	317.00–347.50	338.29
11	550–600	570	315.00–319.00	316.42
20	600–650	613	307.50–312.50	309.72
9	650–700	687	273.00	273.00
30	700–750	734	272.50–273.00	272.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	467	275.00	275.00
19	500–550	534	290.00–305.00	295.68
13	550–600	586	255.00–277.50	266.96
31	600–650	625	260.00–270.00	264.34

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	350–400	366	450.00	450.00
4	400–450	428	375.00	375.00
19	450–500	455	427.50–430.00	428.93
30	500–550	525	375.00–405.00	394.27
23	550–600	552	365.00	365.00
32	600–650	627	331.00–359.00	352.11
9	650–700	678	285.00–315.00	302.09
65	800–850	845	265.00–285.25	283.66

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	529	330.00	330.00
18	550–600	598	300.00	300.00
3	600–650	625	280.00	280.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	469	410.00	410.00
38	550–600	585	345.00	345.00
17	650–700	697	287.50	287.50

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.