Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2020-09-22

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 22
● Final13 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164
Receipts
221 head
▼ 236 vs last sale 457▲ 56 vs year ago 165 · +33.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday steers were steady, heifers .40 lower. Light offerings were met with good demand.

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
HeifersChoiceAverage1,240100.051,24165
HeifersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,23490.711,11915
HeifersSelectAverage1,34376.751,0319thin
SteersChoiceAverage1,349101.351,36781
SteersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,34689.901,21018
SteersSelectAverage1,46879.771,17111

Every lot

13 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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,20889.73/cwt86.00–95.001,08411
Steers—SelectReturn to Feed1,21580.34/cwt77.00–83.009763
Steers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,257101.85/cwt96.00–111.001,28046
Steers—Choice1,469100.70/cwt95.00–105.001,47935
Steers—Select1,56379.56/cwt74.50–83.501,2448
Steers—Select and Choice1,56490.16/cwt87.00–94.001,4107
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,00993.74/cwt87.00–95.009468
Heifers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,188100.47/cwt97.00–106.501,19415
Heifers—SelectReturn to Feed1,19877.75/cwt72.50–80.009316
Heifers—Choice1,25699.93/cwt97.00–102.001,25550
Heifers—Select and Choice1,36091.37/cwt90.00–95.001,2434
Heifers—SelectHeavy Weight1,63374.75/cwt71.00–77.001,2213
Heifers—Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight1,66581.75/cwt80.00–85.001,3613

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.