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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-10-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-28

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Oct 28

● Final13 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

213 head

▲ 17 vs last sale 196▼ 123 vs year ago 336 · −36.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Choice slaughter steers 6.00 lower, with light numbers. No implant steers bringing a 2.00 premium. Too light a test on Choice slaughter heifers this week, no comparison. Load of steers, along with many smaller groups in the offering today. Demand good.

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	1,194	231.71	2,767	43
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,423	229.57	3,266	22
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,235	246.90	3,049	43
Steers	Choice	Average	1,489	230.20	3,428	90

Every lot

13 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 ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,181	252.25/cwt	252.25–252.25	2,979	23
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceNatural	1,275	244.50/cwt	244.50–244.50	3,117	7
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,309	238.74/cwt	233.00–259.00	3,125	13
Steers	—	Choice	1,454	230.09/cwt	230.00–230.50	3,346	16
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,461	230.42/cwt	227.50–232.00	3,366	44
Steers	—	Choice	1,535	230.11/cwt	227.50–231.25	3,532	25
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,624	229.01/cwt	224.00–230.25	3,719	5
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,073	232.38/cwt	230.00–235.00	2,493	2
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,169	232.53/cwt	232.50–233.00	2,718	37
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,299	229.89/cwt	228.50–230.50	2,986	4
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,378	222.51/cwt	222.00–223.00	3,066	2
Heifers	—	Choice	1,450	229.50/cwt	226.00–230.75	3,328	18
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,602	225.00/cwt	225.00–225.00	3,605	2

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 Oct 28, 2025

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

Receipts 213Last week 196Year ago 336

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	—	1,309	233.00–259.00	238.74

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
44	—	1,461	227.50–232.00	230.42

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
25	—	1,535	227.50–231.25	230.11
16	—	1,454	230.00–230.50	230.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,275	244.50	244.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,624	224.00–230.25	229.01

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,181	252.25	252.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,602	225.00	225.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,073	230.00–235.00	232.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,169	232.50–233.00	232.53

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,299	228.50–230.50	229.89

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,378	222.00–223.00	222.51

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,450	226.00–230.75	229.50

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.