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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2021-12-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-12-28

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Dec 28

● Final8 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

128 head

▲ 14 vs last sale 114▲ 128 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 1.50 higher, choice slaughter heifers 1.80 higher. Trade active. Good demand for the light offerings.

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
Dairy Heifers	Choice	Average	1,364	92.39	1,260	5thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,341	90.08	1,208	12
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,281	134.06	1,717	61
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,280	111.00	1,421	1thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,163	94.52	1,099	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,346	136.04	1,831	35

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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Slaughter Cattle · Steers2 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Choice	1,345	136.28/cwt	134.00–137.50	1,833	29
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,352	134.89/cwt	130.50–138.00	1,824	6
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,163	94.52/cwt	91.00–98.00	1,099	2
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,171	131.60/cwt	126.50–137.25	1,541	31
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,280	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	1,421	1
Heifers	—	Choice	1,394	136.61/cwt	134.00–138.00	1,904	30
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,341	90.08/cwt	87.00–99.00	1,208	12
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Heifers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Heifers	—	Choice	1,364	92.39/cwt	90.00–93.50	1,260	5

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 28, 2021

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

Receipts 128Last week 114Year ago 0

Compared to last Tuesday choice slaughter steers were 1.50 higher, choice slaughter heifers 1.80 higher. Trade active. Good demand for the light offerings.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,341	87.00–99.00	90.08

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,364	90.00–93.50	92.39

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,352	130.50–138.00	134.89

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,345	134.00–137.50	136.28

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,280	111.00	111.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,163	91.00–98.00	94.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,171	126.50–137.25	131.60

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,394	134.00–138.00	136.61

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.