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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-09-21
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-09-21

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 21

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28 →

Receipts

278 head

▼ 31 vs last sale 309▲ 57 vs year ago 221 · +25.8%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 3.00 lower, choice heifers 4.5 lower. Demand 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.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,185	117.09	1,387	118
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,044	106.15	1,108	6thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,025	91.47	938	3thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,368	119.44	1,634	131
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,348	105.42	1,421	14
Steers	Select	Average	1,410	93.00	1,311	1thin

Every lot

10 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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Slaughter Cattle · Steers5 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,202	109.20/cwt	107.50–112.00	1,313	5
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,257	120.94/cwt	114.50–123.00	1,520	52
Steers	—	Select	1,410	93.00/cwt	93.00–93.00	1,311	1
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,429	103.32/cwt	100.50–104.50	1,476	9
Steers	—	Choice	1,441	118.45/cwt	114.50–120.00	1,707	79
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,025	91.47/cwt	86.00–97.50	938	3
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,044	106.15/cwt	100.00–109.50	1,108	6
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,074	117.78/cwt	112.00–126.50	1,265	38
Heifers	—	Choice	1,202	117.70/cwt	112.50–119.35	1,415	72
Heifers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,557	108.26/cwt	106.50–108.50	1,686	8

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 →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Sep 21, 2021

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

Receipts 278Last week 309Year ago 221

Compared to last Tuesday choice steers were 3.00 lower, choice heifers 4.5 lower. Demand good today. Trading active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
72	—	1,202	112.50–119.35	117.70

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,557	106.50–108.50	108.26

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,074	112.00–126.50	117.78

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,025	86.00–97.50	91.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,044	100.00–109.50	106.15

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
79	—	1,441	114.50–120.00	118.45

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,410	93.00	93.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,429	100.50–104.50	103.32

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	1,257	114.50–123.00	120.94

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,202	107.50–112.00	109.20

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.