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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-07

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jan 7

● Final16 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Dec 17Jan 7Jan 28 →

Receipts

294 head

▲ 104 vs last sale 190▲ 294 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

First reported sale in three weeks, no price comparison available. No implant steers bringing a premium, especially those over 1500 lbs. No implant and drug free heifers bringing top prices. Most of the sale consisted of smaller strings. Good demand on this larger offering of fat cattle.

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	1,359	198.15	2,692	85
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,242	195.33	2,426	65
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,197	201.29	2,410	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,461	198.99	2,908	103

Every lot

16 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 · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,150	203.04/cwt	192.00–214.50	2,335	12
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,245	199.45/cwt	197.00–205.00	2,483	3
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,404	199.88/cwt	199.50–200.00	2,806	12
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,408	193.52/cwt	193.00–194.00	2,725	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,411	198.02/cwt	195.00–200.25	2,794	25
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,426	198.25/cwt	196.00–202.00	2,827	37
Steers	—	Choice	1,533	197.00/cwt	197.00–197.00	3,020	3
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,573	201.06/cwt	200.50–201.75	3,163	24
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,642	197.50/cwt	197.50–197.50	3,243	2
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,162	199.82/cwt	189.50–211.50	2,322	38
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,242	198.75/cwt	197.50–199.00	2,468	25
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,316	189.47/cwt	187.00–192.00	2,493	19
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,340	187.19/cwt	187.00–187.50	2,508	5
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,398	198.38/cwt	196.00–200.25	2,773	46
Heifers	—	Choice	1,437	196.31/cwt	194.00–197.50	2,821	14
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,627	189.22/cwt	186.50–191.00	3,079	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 Jan 7, 2025

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

Receipts 294Last week 190Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,642	197.50	197.50
12	—	1,404	199.50–200.00	199.88

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,245	197.00–205.00	199.45

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,426	196.00–202.00	198.25
24	—	1,573	200.50–201.75	201.06

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,408	193.00–194.00	193.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,533	197.00	197.00
25	—	1,411	195.00–200.25	198.02

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,150	192.00–214.50	203.04

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,340	187.00–187.50	187.19

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
38	—	1,162	189.50–211.50	199.82

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
25	—	1,242	197.50–199.00	198.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,627	186.50–191.00	189.22

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
46	—	1,398	196.00–200.25	198.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,437	194.00–197.50	196.31

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,316	187.00–192.00	189.47

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.