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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-29
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-29

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Apr 29

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Apr 22Apr 29May 13 →

Receipts

121 head

▲ 19 vs last sale 102▲ 121 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the slaughter cattle auction one week ago (April 22) choice steers and heifers were 4.00 to 7.00 higher. Quality groups were available today. Demand was very good for today's light supply.

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	1,360	220.03	2,991	56
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,233	208.38	2,569	16
Steers	Choice	Average	1,467	219.42	3,218	37
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,259	215.55	2,715	6thin

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 · Steers4 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,178	217.83/cwt	212.00–235.00	2,566	4
Steers	—	Choice	1,406	219.88/cwt	218.75–221.00	3,092	29
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,422	211.00/cwt	211.00–211.00	3,000	2
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,687	217.76/cwt	210.50–220.00	3,674	8
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,172	207.38/cwt	201.00–213.00	2,430	9
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,309	208.95/cwt	201.00–216.00	2,735	6
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,321	220.00/cwt	220.00–220.00	2,906	2
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,325	214.00/cwt	214.00–214.00	2,836	1
Heifers	—	Choice	1,361	220.03/cwt	217.00–221.00	2,995	54

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 Apr 29, 2025

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

Receipts 121Last week 102Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,178	212.00–235.00	217.83

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,687	210.50–220.00	217.76

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,422	211.00	211.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,406	218.75–221.00	219.88

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,172	201.00–213.00	207.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,325	214.00	214.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,321	220.00	220.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,309	201.00–216.00	208.95

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,361	217.00–221.00	220.03

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.