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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-09-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-09-19

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 19

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Sep 12Sep 19Sep 26 →

Receipts

416 head

▲ 230 vs last sale 186▼ 199 vs year ago 615 · −32.4%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 3.00 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	1,249	182.03	2,274	149
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,131	173.95	1,967	10
Steers	Choice	Average	1,363	183.25	2,498	229
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,336	174.29	2,329	23
Steers	Select	Average	1,324	166.82	2,209	5thin

Every lot

12 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 · Steers7 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,118	183.73/cwt	181.50–191.00	2,054	13
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,122	176.80/cwt	176.50–178.00	1,984	5
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,128	186.25/cwt	186.25–186.25	2,101	6
Steers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,150	165.00/cwt	165.00–165.00	1,898	1
Steers	—	Select	1,368	167.28/cwt	165.50–169.00	2,288	4
Steers	—	Choice	1,385	183.13/cwt	180.00–186.00	2,536	210
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,396	173.59/cwt	170.00–177.00	2,423	18
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,025	182.50/cwt	182.50–182.50	1,871	3
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,056	173.44/cwt	168.00–176.00	1,832	8
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,145	180.17/cwt	177.50–184.00	2,063	55
Heifers	—	Choice	1,320	183.14/cwt	178.00–184.75	2,417	91
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,430	176.00/cwt	176.00–176.00	2,517	2

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 19, 2023

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

Receipts 416Last week 186Year ago 615

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, choice slaughter steers and heifers were 3.00 lower. Demand good. Active trade.

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
91	—	1,320	178.00–184.75	183.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,430	176.00	176.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,025	182.50	182.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
55	—	1,145	177.50–184.00	180.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,056	168.00–176.00	173.44

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
210	—	1,385	180.00–186.00	183.13

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,368	165.50–169.00	167.28

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,396	170.00–177.00	173.59

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,128	186.25	186.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,118	181.50–191.00	183.73

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,150	165.00	165.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,122	176.50–178.00	176.80

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.