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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-09

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Dec 9

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

← Dec 2Dec 9Dec 16 →

Receipts

110 head

▲ 15 vs last sale 95▼ 104 vs year ago 214 · −48.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the sale last Tuesday; Choice slaughter steers 12.00 higher with light numbers. Choice slaughter heifers 13.00 higher, with limited numbers last week. No implant cattle bringing a 1.00 premium in steers over 1500 lbs. 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
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,200	171.00	2,052	2thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,318	224.32	2,957	46
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,126	220.58	2,484	5thin
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,278	227.43	2,907	8thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,441	224.14	3,229	48

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 · Steers5 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,278	227.43/cwt	226.00–228.50	2,907	8
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,338	223.79/cwt	223.75–224.00	2,994	6
Steers	—	Choice	1,397	223.71/cwt	222.00–226.00	3,125	23
Steers	—	Choice	1,520	224.60/cwt	224.25–224.75	3,414	14
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,543	225.25/cwt	225.25–225.25	3,476	5
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,077	234.18/cwt	220.00–258.00	2,522	3
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,200	200.17/cwt	198.00–202.00	2,402	2
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,316	224.61/cwt	223.00–225.25	2,956	15
Heifers	—	Choice	1,319	224.18/cwt	222.50–225.75	2,957	31
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,200	171.00/cwt	171.00–171.00	2,052	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 Dec 9, 2025

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

Receipts 110Last week 95Year ago 214

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,319	222.50–225.75	224.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,200	198.00–202.00	200.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,316	223.00–225.25	224.61

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,077	220.00–258.00	234.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,397	222.00–226.00	223.71
14	—	1,520	224.25–224.75	224.60

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	1,338	223.75–224.00	223.79
5	—	1,543	225.25	225.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,278	226.00–228.50	227.43

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,200	171.00	171.00

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.