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Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-30

Slaughter Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Tue, Dec 30

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2164

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Receipts

97 head

▼ 101 vs last sale 198▲ 97 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No comparison today, as the previous auction was not reported. Upward trend noted. Nice load of heavyweight steers, along with plenty of smaller packages in the offering. Good demand, both in the arena and online.

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	1,164	226.81	2,640	13
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,362	224.11	3,052	20
Steers	Choice	Average	1,570	225.48	3,539	52
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,278	223.00	2,849	4thin

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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,227	227.00/cwt	227.00–227.00	2,785	2
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,328	219.00/cwt	218.50–219.50	2,908	2
Steers	—	Choice	1,433	224.92/cwt	224.25–226.25	3,223	18
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,436	224.50/cwt	224.50–224.50	3,224	3
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,615	226.25/cwt	226.25–226.25	3,654	3
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,667	225.87/cwt	221.00–226.10	3,765	28
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,164	226.81/cwt	222.00–228.00	2,640	13
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,351	222.89/cwt	221.50–223.50	3,011	10
Heifers	—	Choice	1,355	225.35/cwt	225.35–225.35	3,053	8
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,442	225.25/cwt	225.25–225.25	3,248	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.

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Dunlap Livestock Slaughter Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Tue Dec 30, 2025

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

Receipts 97Last week 198Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
28	—	1,667	221.00–226.10	225.87

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,227	227.00	227.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,615	226.25	226.25
3	—	1,436	224.50	224.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,328	218.50–219.50	219.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	1,433	224.25–226.25	224.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,442	225.25	225.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,164	222.00–228.00	226.81

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	1,351	221.50–223.50	222.89

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	1,355	225.35	225.35

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.