Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2019-07-16

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jul 16
● Final16 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164
Receipts
300 head
▲ 69 vs last sale 231▲ 300 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday, choice steers were 1.00 higher with the choice heifers .50 higher. Not enough Holstein steers last week for a comparison today. In both steers and heifers the extreme top was on the heavier weights.

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
Dairy SteersChoiceAverage1,39481.591,13734
Dairy SteersSelectAverage1,25673.049176thin
HeifersChoiceAverage1,244110.101,36953
HeifersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,204104.251,2558thin
HeifersSelectAverage1,45581.291,1834thin
SteersChoiceAverage1,395111.361,55373
SteersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,269105.101,33432
SteersSelectAverage1,40697.611,37260

Every lot

16 lots · USDA AMS · Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Slaughter Cattle · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,020107.00/cwt107.00–107.001,0911
Steers—SelectReturn to Feed1,11594.00/cwt94.00–94.001,0481
Steers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,139105.46/cwt102.00–112.001,20117
Steers—Choice1,356111.20/cwt107.00–113.001,50863
Steers—Select and Choice1,400104.81/cwt102.00–107.001,46714
Steers—Select1,40298.47/cwt93.50–101.501,38154
Steers—SelectHeavy Weight1,50589.00/cwt89.00–89.001,3395
Steers—Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight1,640103.00/cwt103.00–103.001,6891
Steers—ChoiceHeavy Weight1,707113.00/cwt113.00–113.001,9299
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,010107.25/cwt106.50–108.001,0832
Heifers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,063107.90/cwt106.75–109.501,14711
Heifers—Select and Choice1,268103.25/cwt101.00–104.501,3096
Heifers—Choice1,291110.68/cwt106.50–114.001,42942
Heifers—Select1,45581.29/cwt77.00–84.001,1834
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers2 lots · lightest first
Dairy Steers—Select1,25673.04/cwt67.00–74.759176
Dairy Steers—Choice1,39481.59/cwt81.00–83.751,13734

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.