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Creston Livestock Auction

Name: Creston Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-23
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-23

Feeder Cattle · Creston, Iowa · Wed, Apr 23

● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2160

← Apr 2Apr 23May 14 →

Receipts

1,586 head

▼ 46 vs last sale 1,632▲ 1,586 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison stated today to the previous feeder calf/yearling auction in early April. Available today were truckload lots of quality, green yearling cattle. Internet bidding very active in today's sale. Today's offering saw many quality, home raised, double vaccinated feeder steers and heifers with quality replacements available. Demand was very good. Active trade.

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 $380.92/cwt on 78 head. That ranks 1 of 7 comparable sales and sits −104.39 against this barn's trailing median of $485.32.

Average price

$380.92

78 head · 549 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,092

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$33

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

$17.52/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+6.28

vs IA average

+6.90 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	546	384.52	2,098	62
Medium and Large 1-2	563	367.00	2,065	16thin

One grade step is worth $17.52/cwt here — about $33 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 sale78 hd

380.92

—

IA average6 barns · 1,119 hd

374.64

+6.28

National average172 barns · 11,123 hd

374.02

+6.90

This barn, trailing median7 sales

485.32

−104.39

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 · Steers14 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	395	428.00/cwt	428.00–428.00	1,691	3
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	424.00/cwt	424.00–424.00	1,781	5
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	469	396.19/cwt	390.00–401.00	1,858	9
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	513	398.81/cwt	384.00–406.00	2,046	27
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	543	374.00/cwt	374.00–374.00	2,031	9
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	571	373.49/cwt	368.00–379.00	2,133	35
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	588	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	2,105	7
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	638	343.40/cwt	333.00–363.50	2,191	41
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	646	326.00/cwt	326.00–326.00	2,106	8
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	658	339.50/cwt	339.50–339.50	2,234	5
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	719	298.17/cwt	292.00–300.50	2,144	11
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	764	290.50/cwt	290.50–290.50	2,219	8
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	888	286.31/cwt	283.75–288.75	2,542	194
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	918	281.66/cwt	278.85–286.00	2,586	175
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	365	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,606	7
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	459	370.64/cwt	363.00–384.00	1,701	17
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	517	349.93/cwt	343.00–356.50	1,809	24
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	565	333.30/cwt	332.00–335.00	1,883	14
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	591	319.00/cwt	319.00–319.00	1,885	5
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	600	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,800	4
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	611	319.49/cwt	307.00–321.75	1,952	41
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	659	301.41/cwt	298.00–303.50	1,986	26
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	743	274.87/cwt	271.00–277.50	2,042	37
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	779	274.15/cwt	273.25–275.50	2,136	102
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	849	267.12/cwt	263.50–267.75	2,268	74
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	868	265.73/cwt	265.00–266.50	2,307	144

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 Apr 23, 2025

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

Receipts 1,586Last week 1,632Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	365	440.00	440.00
17	450–500	459	363.00–384.00	370.64
24	500–550	517	343.00–356.50	349.93
14	550–600	565	332.00–335.00	333.30
41	600–650	611	307.00–321.75	319.49
26	650–700	659	298.00–303.50	301.41
37	700–750	743	271.00–277.50	274.87
102	750–800	779	273.25–275.50	274.15
74	800–850	849	263.50–267.75	267.12
144	850–900	868	265.00–266.50	265.73

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	591	319.00	319.00
4	600–650	600	300.00	300.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	350–400	395	428.00	428.00
5	400–450	420	424.00	424.00
9	450–500	469	390.00–401.00	396.19
27	500–550	513	384.00–406.00	398.81
35	550–600	571	368.00–379.00	373.49
41	600–650	638	333.00–363.50	343.40
5	650–700	658	339.50	339.50
11	700–750	719	292.00–300.50	298.17
8	750–800	764	290.50	290.50
194	850–900	888	283.75–288.75	286.31
175	900–950	918	278.85–286.00	281.66

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	500–550	543	374.00	374.00
7	550–600	588	358.00	358.00
8	600–650	646	326.00	326.00

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.