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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-01-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-01-24

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jan 24

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

200 head

▼ 28 vs last sale 228▼ 26 vs year ago 226 · −11.5%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.90 lower. Choice slaughter heifers .90 lower. Demand good. Active trade.

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	1,373	154.23	2,117	98
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,151	142.13	1,636	4thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,416	156.08	2,210	94
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,120	143.05	1,602	2thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,475	132.50	1,954	1thin

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 · Steers4 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,080	153.03/cwt	150.00–158.00	1,653	6
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,120	143.05/cwt	142.00–144.00	1,602	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,439	156.29/cwt	152.00–158.50	2,249	88
Steers	—	Select	1,475	132.50/cwt	132.50–132.50	1,954	1
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,084	151.47/cwt	148.00–155.00	1,642	13
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,130	141.00/cwt	138.00–143.00	1,593	3
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceNatural	1,215	145.50/cwt	145.50–145.50	1,768	1
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,334	154.77/cwt	151.00–157.00	2,065	19
Heifers	—	Choice	1,441	154.62/cwt	148.50–157.50	2,228	66

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 Jan 24, 2023

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

Receipts 200Last week 228Year ago 226

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers were 1.90 lower. Choice slaughter heifers .90 lower. Demand good. Active trade.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
88	—	1,439	152.00–158.50	156.29

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,120	142.00–144.00	143.05

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,080	150.00–158.00	153.03

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,475	132.50	132.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,130	138.00–143.00	141.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,084	148.00–155.00	151.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,215	145.50	145.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,334	151.00–157.00	154.77

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
66	—	1,441	148.50–157.50	154.62

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.