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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-05-27
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-05-27

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, May 27

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

152 head

▲ 9 vs last sale 143▲ 152 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday, Choice slaughter steers 1.00-3.00 higher. Choice slaughter heifers steady to 4.00 higher. The auction consisted of 1 load lot of steers, along with plenty of smaller packages. Good demand throughout the sale.

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	1,311	228.86	3,000	13
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,248	219.80	2,744	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,468	229.04	3,363	60
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,292	228.36	2,949	20

Every lot

10 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	1,260	229.87/cwt	229.00–230.00	2,896	16
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,294	226.64/cwt	225.50–227.50	2,933	7
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,418	222.32/cwt	219.00–223.50	3,152	4
Steers	—	Choice	1,436	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	3,317	37
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,508	225.66/cwt	225.00–227.00	3,403	3
Steers	—	Choice	1,572	227.67/cwt	225.00–229.00	3,579	3
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,667	224.91/cwt	222.50–226.00	3,749	10
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,166	230.65/cwt	230.00–231.00	2,689	3
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,266	217.48/cwt	215.50–219.50	2,753	14
Heifers	—	Choice	1,311	228.86/cwt	225.00–229.50	3,000	13

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 May 27, 2025

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

Receipts 152Last week 143Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,311	225.00–229.50	228.86

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,266	215.50–219.50	217.48

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,166	230.00–231.00	230.65

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,436	231.00	231.00
3	—	1,572	225.00–229.00	227.67

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,418	219.00–223.50	222.32

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,294	225.50–227.50	226.64

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,667	222.50–226.00	224.91

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,508	225.00–227.00	225.66

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	1,260	229.00–230.00	229.87

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.