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Clarinda Livestock Auction

Name: Clarinda Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-08-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-14

Feeder Cattle · Clarinda, Iowa · Thu, Aug 14

● Final16 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2166

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Receipts

520 head

▼ 63 vs last sale 583▼ 208 vs year ago 728 · −28.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the feeder cattle auction two weeks ago, no trend stated due to today's very light offering. Available today were a hand full of load lots of yearling heifers with the rest of the sale in small packages. Most lots came off grass and were green, and home-raised. Demand was good for today's light supply.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 600–700 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

600–700 lb heifers averaged $365.82/cwt on 32 head. That ranks 6 of 14 comparable sales and sits −8.13 against this barn's trailing median of $373.95.

Average price

$365.82

32 head · 644 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,357

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$66

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

$0.94/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+14.22

vs IA average

+24.40 vs national

Price by quality 600–700 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	646	365.94	2,365	28
Medium and Large 1-2	630	365.00	2,300	4thin

One grade step is worth $0.94/cwt here — about $66 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 700–800 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 600–700 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale32 hd

365.82

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IA average2 barns · 53 hd

351.61

+14.22

National average149 barns · 6,417 hd

341.42

+24.40

This barn, trailing median14 sales

373.95

−8.13

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 600–700 lb

14 sales

Heifers 600–700 lb: high $410.01, low $319.64, median $373.95 across 14 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

16 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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	595	424.00/cwt	424.00–424.00	2,523	6
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	657	399.00/cwt	399.00–399.00	2,621	10
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	672	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	2,520	5
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	724	378.00/cwt	378.00–378.00	2,737	66
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	769	374.01/cwt	369.00–376.00	2,876	14
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	813	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	2,927	13
Feeder Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	630	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	2,300	4
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	638	370.93/cwt	368.00–373.00	2,367	24
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	696	336.00/cwt	336.00–336.00	2,339	4
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	725	346.34/cwt	342.00–353.00	2,511	37
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	740	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	2,516	8
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	775	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	2,558	14
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	880	300.89/cwt	300.00–302.00	2,648	27
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	912	315.25/cwt	315.25–315.25	2,875	121
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	985	307.50/cwt	307.50–307.50	3,029	113
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls	350–400	Medium and Large 1	363	470.00/cwt	470.00–470.00	1,706	3

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 Aug 14, 2025

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

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Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
24	600–650	638	368.00–373.00	370.93
4	650–700	696	336.00	336.00
37	700–750	725	342.00–353.00	346.34
14	750–800	775	330.00	330.00
27	850–900	880	300.00–302.00	300.89
121	900–950	912	315.25	315.25
113	950–1000	985	307.50	307.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	600–650	630	365.00	365.00
8	700–750	740	340.00	340.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	650–700	672	375.00	375.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	550–600	595	424.00	424.00
10	650–700	657	399.00	399.00
66	700–750	724	378.00	378.00
14	750–800	769	369.00–376.00	374.01
13	800–850	813	360.00	360.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	350–400	363	470.00	470.00

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.