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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-07-15
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-07-15

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Jul 15

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

251 head

▲ 149 vs last sale 102▲ 251 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to just last week's slaughter cattle auction, choice slaughter steers were 8.00 to 10.00 higher and choice slaughter heifers were 7.00 to 9.00 higher. Demand was very good for choice cattle in today's moderate offering. Trade was active.

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	1,363	241.22	3,288	35
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,188	231.64	2,751	7thin
Heifers	Select	Average	1,405	224.00	3,147	3thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,418	245.08	3,475	164
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,296	237.13	3,074	25

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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,237	237.67/cwt	235.00–253.00	2,940	14
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,317	253.00/cwt	253.00–253.00	3,332	11
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,325	249.00/cwt	249.00–249.00	3,299	6
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,372	236.45/cwt	236.00–236.50	3,244	11
Steers	—	Choice	1,408	244.36/cwt	237.00–249.50	3,441	132
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,617	244.09/cwt	233.00–245.75	3,947	15
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,143	232.91/cwt	230.00–233.50	2,662	6
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,252	247.00/cwt	247.00–247.00	3,092	2
Heifers	—	Choice	1,362	241.35/cwt	238.00–245.00	3,287	32
Heifers	—	Select	1,405	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	3,147	3
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,455	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	3,259	1
Heifers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,625	225.50/cwt	225.50–225.50	3,664	1

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 Jul 15, 2025

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

Receipts 251Last week 102Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
132	—	1,408	237.00–249.50	244.36

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,325	249.00	249.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,617	233.00–245.75	244.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,317	253.00	253.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,372	236.00–236.50	236.45

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,237	235.00–253.00	237.67

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	1,362	238.00–245.00	241.35

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,252	247.00	247.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,625	225.50	225.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,405	224.00	224.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,455	224.00	224.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,143	230.00–233.50	232.91

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.