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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-03-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-03-26

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Mar 26

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

84 head

▼ 56 vs last sale 140▼ 103 vs year ago 187 · −55.1%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

DUNLAP LIVESTOCK SLAUGHTER CATTLE SALE - - - - Compared to last week's auction, slaughter choice steers and heifers were both fully steady. Cattle with no implants in high demand. Demand was good for today's very light offering.

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	1,282	187.43	2,402	34
Steers	Choice	Low	1,379	184.67	2,547	35

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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,185	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	2,133	1
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,275	188.50/cwt	188.50–188.50	2,403	1
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,335	185.28/cwt	184.25–187.00	2,473	26
Steers	—	Choice	1,392	185.25/cwt	185.25–185.25	2,579	2
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,655	181.00/cwt	181.00–181.00	2,996	4
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,705	183.25/cwt	183.25–183.25	3,124	1
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,245	188.21/cwt	187.50–188.35	2,343	21
Heifers	—	Choice	1,314	185.02/cwt	184.00–190.00	2,431	6
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,364	187.17/cwt	187.10–187.25	2,553	7

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 Mar 26, 2024

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

Receipts 84Last week 140Year ago 187

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,185	180.00	180.00
1	—	1,275	188.50	188.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,705	183.25	183.25
4	—	1,655	181.00	181.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
26	—	1,335	184.25–187.00	185.28

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,392	185.25	185.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,245	187.50–188.35	188.21

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,364	187.10–187.25	187.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,314	184.00–190.00	185.02

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.