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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-10-15
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-15

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Oct 15

● Final14 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

211 head

▲ 70 vs last sale 141▲ 36 vs year ago 175 · +20.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Choice slaughter steers and heifers steady to 1.00 higher. Heavyweight steers bringing a slight premium. Heifers with no implants showing a small gain. Mostly smaller packages in the offering today. Good demand.

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
Beef/Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,558	176.55	2,751	3thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,359	184.51	2,508	75
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,053	183.39	1,931	22
Steers	Choice	Average	1,453	185.15	2,689	82
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,176	182.46	2,146	21

Every lot

14 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	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,118	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	2,012	3
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,186	182.87/cwt	180.75–184.00	2,169	18
Steers	—	Choice	1,412	185.11/cwt	182.00–185.75	2,614	52
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,437	185.00/cwt	185.00–185.00	2,658	13
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,452	184.50/cwt	184.50–184.50	2,679	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,525	185.35/cwt	184.75–185.60	2,827	7
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,678	185.69/cwt	184.00–186.10	3,116	8
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,035	184.37/cwt	180.50–201.00	1,908	18
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,135	179.00/cwt	179.00–179.00	2,032	4
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,340	185.49/cwt	183.50–185.85	2,486	17
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,351	185.00/cwt	185.00–185.00	2,499	4
Heifers	—	Choice	1,358	184.32/cwt	181.00–185.10	2,503	52
Heifers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,575	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	2,835	2
Slaughter Cattle · Beef/Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Beef/Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,558	176.55/cwt	174.50–177.50	2,751	3

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 Oct 15, 2024

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

Receipts 211Last week 141Year ago 175

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,525	184.75–185.60	185.35
52	—	1,412	182.00–185.75	185.11

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,452	184.50	184.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,678	184.00–186.10	185.69

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,118	180.00	180.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,186	180.75–184.00	182.87

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,437	185.00	185.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Beef/Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,558	174.50–177.50	176.55

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,575	180.00	180.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,340	183.50–185.85	185.49

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,351	185.00	185.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,035	180.50–201.00	184.37

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,135	179.00	179.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
52	—	1,358	181.00–185.10	184.32

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.