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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-08-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-12

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Aug 12

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

288 head

▲ 160 vs last sale 128▲ 288 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, both choice slaughter steers and heifers were 3.50 to 4.50 lower. In today's offering were many "two - way" cattle with many returning to the feed yard. Demand was good for today's moderate offering.

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	Select	Average	1,047	270.53	2,832	3thin
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,135	257.48	2,922	44
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,288	241.54	3,111	67
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,192	252.22	3,008	53
Steers	Choice	Average	1,446	242.75	3,510	95

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 · Steers8 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,115	257.00/cwt	257.00–257.00	2,866	1
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,133	258.17/cwt	233.00–273.00	2,925	40
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,320	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	3,142	1
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,380	233.56/cwt	230.00–238.00	3,223	12
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,384	244.14/cwt	242.00–249.50	3,379	16
Steers	—	Choice	1,449	241.91/cwt	239.00–253.50	3,505	71
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,598	247.25/cwt	247.25–247.25	3,951	4
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,605	244.50/cwt	244.50–244.50	3,924	3
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,047	270.53/cwt	263.00–274.00	2,832	3
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,135	257.48/cwt	242.00–259.50	2,922	44
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,179	243.69/cwt	243.50–243.75	2,873	14
Heifers	—	Choice	1,317	240.97/cwt	238.00–244.00	3,174	53

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 Aug 12, 2025

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

Receipts 288Last week 128Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,605	244.50	244.50
16	—	1,384	242.00–249.50	244.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
40	—	1,133	233.00–273.00	258.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,320	238.00	238.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,380	230.00–238.00	233.56

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,115	257.00	257.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,598	247.25	247.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
71	—	1,449	239.00–253.50	241.91

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,047	263.00–274.00	270.53

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
44	—	1,135	242.00–259.50	257.48

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,179	243.50–243.75	243.69

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
53	—	1,317	238.00–244.00	240.97

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.