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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-08-05
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-05

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Aug 5

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

128 head

▲ 3 vs last sale 125▼ 55 vs year ago 183 · −30.1%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the slaughter cattle auction one week ago, choice steers were 5.00 to 6.00 higher. Choice heifer trade saw today's market 3.00 to 5.00 higher. Demand was very good for today's light offering of choice cattle. 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	1,319	246.77	3,255	22
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,109	246.11	2,729	11
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,175	247.64	2,910	14
Steers	Choice	Average	1,415	247.03	3,495	69

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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,137	249.21/cwt	241.00–253.00	2,834	12
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,188	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	2,970	3
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,355	248.44/cwt	247.50–250.00	3,366	20
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,405	238.23/cwt	238.00–238.50	3,347	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,450	246.23/cwt	240.00–251.00	3,570	45
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,715	246.00/cwt	246.00–246.00	4,219	1
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,109	246.11/cwt	236.00–262.00	2,729	11
Heifers	—	Choice	1,308	245.68/cwt	244.00–246.50	3,213	12
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,332	248.07/cwt	247.50–249.00	3,304	10

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 Aug 5, 2025

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

Receipts 128Last week 125Year ago 183

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,137	241.00–253.00	249.21

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,188	250.00	250.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,715	246.00	246.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	1,355	247.50–250.00	248.44

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,405	238.00–238.50	238.23

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,450	240.00–251.00	246.23

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,109	236.00–262.00	246.11

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,332	247.50–249.00	248.07

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,308	244.00–246.50	245.68

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.