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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-07-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-07-30

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jul 30

● Final7 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

155 head

▼ 39 vs last sale 194▼ 158 vs year ago 313 · −50.5%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, Choice slaughter steers and heifers were 1.00 to 2.00 lower. Mostly small groups for today's light offering. Demand was good for today's cattle grading choice. Potential hot weather this week perhaps was in play.

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	1,252	193.51	2,423	19
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,171	188.53	2,208	38
Steers	Choice	Average	1,400	192.33	2,692	76
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,237	189.58	2,344	6thin

Every lot

7 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	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,182	191.66/cwt	191.00–192.50	2,265	3
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,291	187.50/cwt	187.50–187.50	2,421	3
Steers	—	Choice	1,378	192.36/cwt	190.00–194.50	2,651	70
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,654	192.01/cwt	191.00–193.00	3,176	6
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,143	188.84/cwt	188.00–193.50	2,158	33
Heifers	—	Choice	1,252	193.51/cwt	190.50–197.50	2,423	19
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,355	186.50/cwt	182.50–189.00	2,527	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.

Iowa feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Jul 30, 2024

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

Receipts 155Last week 194Year ago 313

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,182	191.00–192.50	191.66

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,654	191.00–193.00	192.01

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,291	187.50	187.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
70	—	1,378	190.00–194.50	192.36

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
33	—	1,143	188.00–193.50	188.84

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,355	182.50–189.00	186.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,252	190.50–197.50	193.51

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.