Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2021-09-14

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 14
● Final11 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164
Receipts
309 head
▲ 137 vs last sale 172▼ 148 vs year ago 457 · −32.4%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were .50 higher, choice heifers .50 lower. Demand was good today. Trading active.

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
HeifersChoiceAverage1,204121.431,461111
HeifersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,182109.541,29512
HeifersSelectAverage1,27188.931,13117
SteersChoiceAverage1,350121.021,634151
SteersSelect and ChoiceAverage1,070109.561,1722thin
SteersSelectAverage1,38786.481,1993thin

Every lot

11 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 · Steers4 lots · lightest first
Steers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,070109.56/cwt108.00–111.001,1722
Steers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,216119.37/cwt115.00–122.501,45238
Steers—Select1,38786.48/cwt83.50–91.001,1993
Steers—Choice1,395121.58/cwt115.00–123.251,696113
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed1,069109.17/cwt104.00–112.501,1678
Heifers—ChoiceReturn to Feed1,075120.13/cwt114.00–130.001,29140
Heifers—SelectReturn to Feed1,14586.52/cwt82.00–90.0099111
Heifers—Choice1,276122.16/cwt117.50–123.851,55971
Heifers—Select and Choice1,409110.27/cwt109.00–114.251,5544
Heifers—Select1,48695.22/cwt94.50–95.501,4155
Heifers—SelectHeavy Weight1,59084.00/cwt84.00–84.001,3361

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.