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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2022-09-06
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2022-09-06

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 6

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

110 head

▼ 47 vs last sale 157▼ 62 vs year ago 172 · −36.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

With Labor Day weekend, there were limited numbers today. Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.7 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 2.5 higher. Demand good. Trade 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	1,238	144.71	1,791	26
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,235	134.86	1,666	11
Heifers	Select	Average	1,160	111.75	1,296	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,376	144.24	1,985	62
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,299	133.12	1,729	7thin

Every lot

9 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 · Steers3 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,123	127.68/cwt	125.50–130.00	1,434	2
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,369	135.29/cwt	131.50–137.50	1,852	5
Steers	—	Choice	1,376	144.24/cwt	140.25–148.50	1,985	62
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,015	105.00/cwt	105.00–105.00	1,066	1
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,076	138.17/cwt	137.50–139.00	1,487	5
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,178	143.34/cwt	142.00–144.00	1,689	12
Heifers	—	Choice	1,289	145.89/cwt	140.50–147.50	1,881	14
Heifers	—	Select	1,305	118.50/cwt	118.50–118.50	1,546	1
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,368	132.11/cwt	130.00–139.00	1,807	6

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 Sep 6, 2022

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

Receipts 110Last week 157Year ago 172

With Labor Day weekend, there were limited numbers today. Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.7 higher. Choice slaughter heifers 2.5 higher. Demand good. Trade active.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,123	125.50–130.00	127.68

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,369	131.50–137.50	135.29

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
62	—	1,376	140.25–148.50	144.24

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,076	137.50–139.00	138.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,015	105.00	105.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,178	142.00–144.00	143.34

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,368	130.00–139.00	132.11

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,305	118.50	118.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,289	140.50–147.50	145.89

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.