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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-09-23
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-09-23

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Sep 23

● Final12 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

268 head

▲ 105 vs last sale 163▼ 130 vs year ago 398 · −32.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Choice slaughter steers 4.00-5.00 lower, with no implant steers bringing 1.00 premium. Choice slaughter heifers 2.00-4.00 lower, with no implant heifers bringing 1.00-4.00 premium. Mostly smaller strings 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	Choice	Average	1,319	234.97	3,099	94
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,247	230.40	2,873	15
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,255	235.99	2,961	36
Steers	Choice	Average	1,435	234.11	3,359	109

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 · Steers7 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,238	237.38/cwt	232.00–242.00	2,939	30
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,275	231.24/cwt	230.00–232.50	2,948	2
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,369	227.92/cwt	224.00–229.50	3,120	4
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,407	236.09/cwt	231.00–236.50	3,322	21
Steers	—	Choice	1,409	233.63/cwt	231.50–235.50	3,292	73
Steers	—	Choice	1,578	235.00/cwt	235.00–235.00	3,708	9
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,630	231.76/cwt	231.00–232.50	3,778	6
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers5 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,148	232.29/cwt	229.00–233.50	2,667	4
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,191	233.18/cwt	230.00–235.50	2,777	6
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,305	235.67/cwt	234.50–237.75	3,075	67
Heifers	—	Choice	1,354	233.22/cwt	232.25–233.75	3,158	27
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,393	225.56/cwt	224.00–227.50	3,142	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 Sep 23, 2025

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

Receipts 268Last week 163Year ago 398

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,238	232.00–242.00	237.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,630	231.00–232.50	231.76

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,275	230.00–232.50	231.24

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
21	—	1,407	231.00–236.50	236.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,369	224.00–229.50	227.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,578	235.00	235.00
73	—	1,409	231.50–235.50	233.63

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,148	229.00–233.50	232.29

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,191	230.00–235.50	233.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
67	—	1,305	234.50–237.75	235.67

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,393	224.00–227.50	225.56

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,354	232.25–233.75	233.22

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.