Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2025-03-28

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Name: Dunlap Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-03-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-03-28

Feeder Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Fri, Mar 28

● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2155

← Mar 21Mar 28Apr 4 →

Receipts

1,188 head

▼ 68 vs last sale 1,256▲ 1,188 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

Also sold hereSpecialSat Jun 7, 2025

View

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Special Calf & Yearling Sale. No comparison, as the previous sale was a Western Iowa Precondition sale. Several load lots of yearlings, along with two loads of replacement heifers, and many strings of smaller groups in the offering. Demand was highest on the replacement heifers, a featured consignment today.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $378.19/cwt on 74 head. That ranks 2 of 17 comparable sales and sits −86.91 against this barn's trailing median of $465.10.

Average price

$378.19

74 head · 544 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,059

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$234

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$29.80/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+5.46

vs IA average

+14.21 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	546	379.80	2,072	70
Medium and Large 1-2	525	350.00	1,838	4thin

One grade step is worth $29.80/cwt here — about $234 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale74 hd

378.19

—

IA average4 barns · 675 hd

372.73

+5.46

National average170 barns · 13,177 hd

363.98

+14.21

This barn, trailing median17 sales

465.10

−86.91

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

17 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $519.43, low $368.70, median $465.10 across 17 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

33 lots · USDA AMS · Dunlap Livestock Feeder 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
Feeder Cattle · Steers15 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	397	466.00/cwt	466.00–466.00	1,850	7
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	462	426.50/cwt	426.50–426.50	1,970	27
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	525	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,838	4
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	531	389.90/cwt	363.00–397.00	2,070	48
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	542	361.00/cwt	361.00–361.00	1,957	4
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	585	357.05/cwt	340.00–366.00	2,089	18
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	624	352.03/cwt	329.00–362.00	2,197	80
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	625	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	2,006	4
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	730	315.63/cwt	311.00–325.50	2,304	45
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	735	277.53/cwt	275.00–280.00	2,040	12
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	785	290.34/cwt	282.00–311.00	2,279	30
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	823	281.09/cwt	280.50–282.25	2,313	53
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	881	277.37/cwt	274.00–279.75	2,444	211
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	935	265.62/cwt	257.00–270.00	2,484	78
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1-2	996	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	2,370	3
Feeder Cattle · Heifers18 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	351	407.00/cwt	407.00–407.00	1,429	16
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	433	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	1,390	3
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	464	369.00/cwt	369.00–369.00	1,712	17
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	518	323.50/cwt	323.50–323.50	1,676	15
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	519	325.39/cwt	325.00–326.00	1,689	10
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	558	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,674	3
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	565	329.91/cwt	320.00–332.00	1,864	23
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	620	302.02/cwt	301.00–303.00	1,873	26
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	668	288.42/cwt	284.00–294.75	1,927	41
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Replacement	700	295.00/cwt	295.00–295.00	2,065	23
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	703	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,975	35
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	760	269.25/cwt	269.25–269.25	2,046	11
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	783	277.18/cwt	275.75–278.50	2,170	23
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Replacement	821	270.34/cwt	267.00–275.50	2,219	208
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1Replacement	852	271.50/cwt	271.50–271.50	2,313	9
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	921	248.81/cwt	248.00–251.25	2,292	27
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,018	220.00/cwt	220.00–220.00	2,240	3
Heifers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,100	189.00/cwt	189.00–189.00	2,079	3

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 Feeder Cattle - Dunlap, IA

Fri Mar 28, 2025

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

Receipts 1,188Last week 1,256Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	1000–1050	1,018	220.00	220.00
3	1100–1150	1,100	189.00	189.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
16	350–400	351	407.00	407.00
17	450–500	464	369.00	369.00
10	500–550	519	325.00–326.00	325.39
23	550–600	565	320.00–332.00	329.91
26	600–650	620	301.00–303.00	302.02
41	650–700	668	284.00–294.75	288.42
35	700–750	703	281.00	281.00
23	750–800	783	275.75–278.50	277.18
27	900–950	921	248.00–251.25	248.81

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	400–450	433	321.00	321.00
3	550–600	558	300.00	300.00
11	750–800	760	269.25	269.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
23	700–750	700	295.00	295.00
208	800–850	821	267.00–275.50	270.34
9	850–900	852	271.50	271.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
15	500–550	518	323.50	323.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	397	466.00	466.00
27	450–500	462	426.50	426.50
48	500–550	531	363.00–397.00	389.90
18	550–600	585	340.00–366.00	357.05
80	600–650	624	329.00–362.00	352.03
45	700–750	730	311.00–325.50	315.63
30	750–800	785	282.00–311.00	290.34
53	800–850	823	280.50–282.25	281.09
211	850–900	881	274.00–279.75	277.37
78	900–950	935	257.00–270.00	265.62

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	525	350.00	350.00
4	600–650	625	321.00	321.00
12	700–750	735	275.00–280.00	277.53
3	950–1000	996	238.00	238.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	542	361.00	361.00

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.