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Creston Livestock Auction

Name: Creston Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-08

Feeder Cattle · Creston, Iowa · Wed, Jan 8

● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2160

← Dec 11Jan 8Jan 15 →

Receipts

2,884 head

▲ 491 vs last sale 2,393▲ 2,884 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Special "All Vacc Calf & Yearling Auction - First reported sale in 4 weeks, no price comparison stated. Today's moderate offering of new crop feeder calves were mostly home raised, weaned forever and double vaccinated. Quality ran very deep on today's calves from reputation genetics. Many replacement quality heifer calves were available today. Demand was very good for today's total offering. Trade very 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 $340.80/cwt on 206 head. That ranks 1 of 7 comparable sales and sits −144.51 against this barn's trailing median of $485.32.

Average price

$340.80

206 head · 581 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,979

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$224

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

$43.78/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+10.77

vs IA average

−1.28 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	580	343.78	1,994	192
Medium and Large 1-2	590	300.00	1,770	14thin

One grade step is worth $43.78/cwt here — about $224 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale206 hd

340.80

—

IA average11 barns · 2,185 hd

330.03

+10.77

National average155 barns · 22,672 hd

342.08

−1.28

This barn, trailing median7 sales

485.32

−144.51

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

7 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $503.62, low $396.64, median $485.32 across 7 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

26 lots · USDA AMS · Creston Livestock Feeder Cattle - Creston, 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 · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	402	408.00/cwt	408.00–408.00	1,640	7
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	475	388.63/cwt	386.00–390.00	1,846	24
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	498	349.00/cwt	349.00–349.00	1,738	28
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	500	344.00/cwt	344.00–344.00	1,720	7
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	583	343.77/cwt	325.00–349.00	2,004	185
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	590	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,770	14
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	625	320.59/cwt	300.00–339.00	2,004	141
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	643	287.00/cwt	287.00–287.00	1,845	5
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	673	311.24/cwt	295.50–325.00	2,095	175
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	677	283.70/cwt	280.00–285.00	1,921	28
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	723	298.06/cwt	285.00–304.75	2,155	356
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	733	276.86/cwt	271.00–279.00	2,029	18
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	784	280.13/cwt	264.50–289.00	2,196	130
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	812	278.25/cwt	271.50–282.00	2,259	131
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	855	268.46/cwt	265.50–269.50	2,295	76
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	948	254.00/cwt	254.00–254.00	2,408	9
Feeder Cattle · Heifers10 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	427	325.26/cwt	325.00–326.00	1,389	20
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	482	319.00/cwt	319.00–319.00	1,538	10
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	527	323.07/cwt	315.00–330.00	1,703	124
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	584	281.28/cwt	275.00–284.00	1,643	23
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	586	302.00/cwt	290.50–316.00	1,770	160
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	618	286.61/cwt	276.00–295.00	1,771	67
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	677	275.96/cwt	261.00–287.25	1,868	240
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	719	260.81/cwt	245.00–270.50	1,875	92
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	772	254.88/cwt	240.00–257.25	1,968	62
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	813	252.72/cwt	249.50–254.00	2,055	89

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 →

Creston Livestock Feeder Cattle - Creston, IA

Wed Jan 8, 2025

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

Receipts 2,884Last week 2,393Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
28	450–500	498	349.00	349.00
14	550–600	590	300.00	300.00
5	600–650	643	287.00	287.00
28	650–700	677	280.00–285.00	283.70
18	700–750	733	271.00–279.00	276.86

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	400–450	402	408.00	408.00
24	450–500	475	386.00–390.00	388.63
7	500–550	500	344.00	344.00
185	550–600	583	325.00–349.00	343.77
141	600–650	625	300.00–339.00	320.59
175	650–700	673	295.50–325.00	311.24
356	700–750	723	285.00–304.75	298.06
130	750–800	784	264.50–289.00	280.13
131	800–850	812	271.50–282.00	278.25
76	850–900	855	265.50–269.50	268.46
9	900–950	948	254.00	254.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
20	400–450	427	325.00–326.00	325.26
10	450–500	482	319.00	319.00
124	500–550	527	315.00–330.00	323.07
160	550–600	586	290.50–316.00	302.00
67	600–650	618	276.00–295.00	286.61
240	650–700	677	261.00–287.25	275.96
92	700–750	719	245.00–270.50	260.81
62	750–800	772	240.00–257.25	254.88
89	800–850	813	249.50–254.00	252.72

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
23	550–600	584	275.00–284.00	281.28

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.