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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-08-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-26

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Aug 26

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

165 head

▲ 44 vs last sale 121▲ 165 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, no trend will be stated as an abnormal number of today's cattle were "Return to Feed". Demand for choice steers and heifers 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	1,120	255.71	2,864	19
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,321	241.94	3,196	41
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,510	233.50	3,526	4thin
Steers	Select	Average	1,213	270.15	3,277	60
Steers	Choice	Average	1,404	242.96	3,412	30
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,230	235.00	2,891	1thin

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	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,213	270.15/cwt	250.00–301.00	3,277	60
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,230	235.00/cwt	235.00–235.00	2,891	1
Steers	—	Choice	1,397	242.98/cwt	240.00–249.00	3,394	29
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,620	242.50/cwt	242.50–242.50	3,929	1
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,100	258.24/cwt	231.00–308.00	2,841	17
Heifers	—	Choice	1,284	242.14/cwt	239.00–248.00	3,109	36
Heifers	—	Select	1,290	234.21/cwt	232.00–237.00	3,021	2
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,510	233.50/cwt	233.50–233.50	3,526	4
Heifers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,587	240.50/cwt	240.50–240.50	3,817	5

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 26, 2025

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

Receipts 165Last week 121Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
36	—	1,284	239.00–248.00	242.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,290	232.00–237.00	234.21

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,510	233.50	233.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,587	240.50	240.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,100	231.00–308.00	258.24

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
29	—	1,397	240.00–249.00	242.98

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,230	235.00	235.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,620	242.50	242.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
60	—	1,213	250.00–301.00	270.15

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.