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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-09-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-09-02

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 2

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

273 head

▲ 108 vs last sale 165▲ 273 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 and heifers 1.00-2.00 higher on this week's offering of good quality cattle. The auction consisted of a load of choice steers, two half loads of choice heifers, and plenty of smaller packages. Good demand.

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 and Choice	Average	1,104	247.00	2,727	28
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,293	243.13	3,143	107
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,232	261.71	3,223	16
Steers	Choice	Average	1,388	243.48	3,379	101

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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,207	263.73/cwt	252.00–274.00	3,183	13
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,260	260.40/cwt	258.00–263.00	3,281	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,367	243.52/cwt	242.85–244.00	3,329	83
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,437	243.39/cwt	243.25–243.75	3,498	10
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,495	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	3,558	1
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,543	243.13/cwt	242.00–243.50	3,751	8
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,104	247.00/cwt	240.00–258.00	2,727	28
Heifers	—	Choice	1,283	243.29/cwt	241.50–245.00	3,121	68
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,307	242.44/cwt	242.00–243.00	3,169	24
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,315	243.50/cwt	243.50–243.50	3,202	15

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 Sep 2, 2025

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

Receipts 273Last week 165Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,207	252.00–274.00	263.73

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,260	258.00–263.00	260.40

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,543	242.00–243.50	243.13
10	—	1,437	243.25–243.75	243.39

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,495	238.00	238.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
83	—	1,367	242.85–244.00	243.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,104	240.00–258.00	247.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,315	243.50	243.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	1,307	242.00–243.00	242.44

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
68	—	1,283	241.50–245.00	243.29

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.