Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2019-07-23

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jul 23
● Final8 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164
Receipts
118 head
▼ 182 vs last sale 300▲ 118 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 .50 to .75 higher with the choice heifers 1.25 to 1.50 higher. No Holstein steers to report today. Very limited supply today compare to last Tuesday.

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
HeifersChoiceAverage1,215112.161,36334
HeifersSelectAverage1,20080.7896918
SteersChoiceAverage1,337111.831,49561
SteersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,301104.761,3635thin

Every lot

8 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 · Steers3 lots · lightest first
Steers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,063103.27/cwt99.00–107.001,0982
Steers—Choice1,337111.83/cwt108.25–114.001,49561
Steers—Select and Choice1,460105.75/cwt105.75–105.751,5443
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers—SelectReturn to Feed83060.08/cwt41.00–93.504995
Heifers—Choice1,205112.09/cwt108.25–113.751,35133
Heifers—Select1,29089.87/cwt87.00–94.001,15911
Heifers—ChoiceHeavy Weight1,555114.50/cwt114.50–114.501,7801
Heifers—SelectHeavy Weight1,63082.55/cwt81.50–83.501,3462

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.