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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-03-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-03-18

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Mar 18

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

101 head

▼ 5 vs last sale 106▼ 39 vs year ago 140 · −27.9%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the slaughter auction one week ago, choice slaughter steers were 3.00 to 5.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers were steady to 3.00 higher. Today's light offering were mostly smaller groups of quality cattle. Demand was good.

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	1,378	204.07	2,812	23
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,108	193.18	2,140	9thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,524	207.52	3,162	37
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,050	204.93	2,151	8thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,094	190.00	2,079	11

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	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	991	205.35/cwt	200.00–206.25	2,035	7
Steers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,094	190.00/cwt	190.00–190.00	2,079	11
Steers	—	Choice	1,451	207.85/cwt	204.00–211.00	3,016	23
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,460	202.00/cwt	202.00–202.00	2,949	1
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,597	211.50/cwt	211.50–211.50	3,378	4
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,606	205.50/cwt	205.50–205.50	3,300	7
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,790	204.35/cwt	202.00–205.50	3,658	3
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	973	187.58/cwt	178.00–196.00	1,825	2
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,099	195.25/cwt	195.25–195.25	2,146	6
Heifers	—	Choice	1,368	203.55/cwt	199.00–209.00	2,785	21
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,430	192.00/cwt	192.00–192.00	2,746	1
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,480	209.50/cwt	209.50–209.50	3,101	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 Mar 18, 2025

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

Receipts 101Last week 106Year ago 140

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	991	200.00–206.25	205.35

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,094	190.00	190.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,790	202.00–205.50	204.35
7	—	1,606	205.50	205.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,597	211.50	211.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,460	202.00	202.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,451	204.00–211.00	207.85

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	973	178.00–196.00	187.58

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,099	195.25	195.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,480	209.50	209.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,430	192.00	192.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,368	199.00–209.00	203.55

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.