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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-09-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-09-16

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 16

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Sep 9Sep 16Sep 23 →

Receipts

163 head

▲ 23 vs last sale 140▼ 45 vs year ago 208 · −21.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Too light a test for Choice slaughter steers last week, no comparison. Choice slaughter heifers 5.00 lower today. One load of steers and heifers, along with plenty of smaller packages in the offering today. 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	1,143	248.77	2,843	15
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,306	237.46	3,101	54
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,338	243.47	3,258	11
Steers	Choice	Average	1,450	237.84	3,448	79

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	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,180	272.18/cwt	260.00–287.00	3,212	2
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,288	249.00/cwt	249.00–249.00	3,207	3
Steers	—	Choice	1,368	238.33/cwt	236.00–240.00	3,260	30
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,398	237.12/cwt	234.00–238.00	3,315	8
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,416	231.13/cwt	230.00–233.50	3,273	6
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,505	237.25/cwt	237.25–237.25	3,571	4
Steers	—	Choice	1,517	237.67/cwt	236.50–237.75	3,605	36
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,665	237.25/cwt	237.25–237.25	3,950	1
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,086	257.34/cwt	241.50–278.00	2,795	10
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,201	237.71/cwt	236.25–238.50	2,855	9
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,256	231.62/cwt	231.00–233.00	2,909	5
Heifers	—	Choice	1,327	237.41/cwt	234.00–239.50	3,150	45

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 16, 2025

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

Receipts 163Last week 140Year ago 208

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,368	236.00–240.00	238.33
36	—	1,517	236.50–237.75	237.67

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,398	234.00–238.00	237.12
4	—	1,505	237.25	237.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,416	230.00–233.50	231.13

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,288	249.00	249.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,180	260.00–287.00	272.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,665	237.25	237.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,327	234.00–239.50	237.41

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,201	236.25–238.50	237.71

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,256	231.00–233.00	231.62

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,086	241.50–278.00	257.34

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.