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Dunlap Livestock Auction

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

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 9

● Final9 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

140 head

▼ 133 vs last sale 273▲ 140 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Too light a test for Choice slaughter steers. Choice slaughter heifers 1.00 lower. No implant cattle bringing a premium today. The auction consisted of a load lot of heifers and plenty of smaller strings. 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	1,076	270.44	2,911	15
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,306	242.60	3,169	78
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,164	260.12	3,028	15
Steers	Choice	Average	1,442	244.21	3,521	25

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 · Steers5 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,142	258.85/cwt	250.00–271.00	2,956	12
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,253	265.19/cwt	254.00–271.00	3,323	3
Steers	—	Choice	1,365	243.44/cwt	242.00–244.00	3,323	9
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,463	244.31/cwt	244.00–245.00	3,574	11
Steers	—	Choice	1,533	245.38/cwt	242.00–247.00	3,762	5
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,036	279.18/cwt	260.00–301.00	2,892	12
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,238	235.50/cwt	235.50–235.50	2,915	3
Heifers	—	Choice	1,301	242.42/cwt	238.50–243.50	3,154	69
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,345	243.96/cwt	243.00–245.00	3,281	9

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 Sep 9, 2025

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

Receipts 140Last week 273Year 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
12	—	1,142	250.00–271.00	258.85

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,253	254.00–271.00	265.19

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,463	244.00–245.00	244.31

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,533	242.00–247.00	245.38
9	—	1,365	242.00–244.00	243.44

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,036	260.00–301.00	279.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,238	235.50	235.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,345	243.00–245.00	243.96

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
69	—	1,301	238.50–243.50	242.42

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.