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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-12-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-12-14

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Dec 14

● Final14 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

395 head

▲ 170 vs last sale 225▲ 87 vs year ago 308 · +28.2%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 2.00 lower, choice slaughter heifers 4.5 lower. Trade active. 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.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,331	135.00	1,797	137
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,115	119.26	1,330	26
Heifers	Select	Average	1,189	104.56	1,243	16
Steers	Choice	Average	1,427	136.67	1,950	188
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,274	125.37	1,597	4thin

Every lot

14 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	1,155	123.95/cwt	123.00–125.00	1,432	2
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,291	134.70/cwt	127.50–136.50	1,739	54
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,393	126.79/cwt	125.00–128.50	1,766	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,473	137.74/cwt	132.00–139.00	2,029	131
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,847	125.49/cwt	124.00–126.25	2,318	3
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,004	121.25/cwt	115.00–125.00	1,217	20
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,113	106.71/cwt	104.00–110.00	1,188	12
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,204	133.91/cwt	127.00–139.50	1,612	37
Heifers	—	Select	1,357	101.00/cwt	101.00–101.00	1,371	3
Heifers	—	Choice	1,374	135.52/cwt	126.00–138.00	1,862	99
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,395	123.00/cwt	122.00–124.00	1,716	2
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,529	107.44/cwt	101.00–110.00	1,643	4
Heifers	—	SelectHeavy Weight	1,600	89.50/cwt	89.50–89.50	1,432	1
Heifers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,765	123.50/cwt	123.50–123.50	2,180	1

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.

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Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Dec 14, 2021

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

Receipts 395Last week 225Year ago 308

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 2.00 lower, choice slaughter heifers 4.5 lower. Trade active. Good demand.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
99	—	1,374	126.00–138.00	135.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,357	101.00	101.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,395	122.00–124.00	123.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,113	104.00–110.00	106.71

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	1,004	115.00–125.00	121.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,765	123.50	123.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,204	127.00–139.50	133.91

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,600	89.50	89.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,529	101.00–110.00	107.44

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
131	—	1,473	132.00–139.00	137.74

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,393	125.00–128.50	126.79

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,847	124.00–126.25	125.49

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,291	127.50–136.50	134.70

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,155	123.00–125.00	123.95

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.