Sale reports / Iowa / Dunlap Livestock Auction / 2025-08-22

Dunlap Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Dunlap, Iowa · Fri, Aug 22
● Final39 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2155
Receipts
947 head
▼ 2,662 vs last sale 3,609▲ 70 vs year ago 877 · +8.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Special Calf & Yearling Sale. No comparison today, as the last reported sale was three weeks ago. Much of the auction consisted of lightweight calves, along with a load lot of 800 lb heifers and many other smaller packages. Good demand for this light offering. The next feeder sale is September 5.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $391.13/cwt on 96 head. That ranks 5 of 16 comparable sales and sits −32.09 against this barn's trailing median of $423.22.
Average price
$391.13
96 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,148
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
—
single grade reported
vs the market
−4.75
vs IA average
+31.33 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1549391.132,14896
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale96 hd
391.13
—
IA average2 barns · 177 hd
395.87
−4.75
National average158 barns · 7,895 hd
359.80
+31.33
This barn, trailing median16 sales
423.22
−32.09
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

16 sales
479439399359median 423.2203/0604/1006/0509/2510/30
Heifers 500–600 lb: high $464.60, low $372.86, median $423.22 across 16 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

39 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers22 lots · lightest first
Steers250–300Medium and Large 12851,830.41/head1,525.00–2,000.001,83010
Steers300–350Medium and Large 13272,189.29/head2,025.00–2,375.002,1899
Steers350–400Medium and Large 1-2375575.00/cwt575.00–575.002,1568
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1Unweaned405598.00/cwt598.00–598.002,4227
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1Unweaned450577.50/cwt577.50–577.502,5997
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1481523.07/cwt520.00–531.002,51643
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1516500.26/cwt481.00–507.002,58126
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1Unweaned537462.78/cwt440.00–474.002,48524
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1573442.50/cwt442.50–442.502,53629
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1-2581383.00/cwt383.00–383.002,2253
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1625394.98/cwt391.00–399.002,4696
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1-2641361.00/cwt361.00–361.002,31415
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1Unweaned662370.00/cwt370.00–370.002,4497
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1671391.36/cwt383.00–398.002,6267
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1704383.00/cwt383.00–383.002,69625
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1771379.17/cwt357.00–384.002,92378
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1Natural829352.00/cwt352.00–352.002,9187
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1830350.13/cwt350.00–350.502,90620
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1913336.34/cwt329.00–339.003,07123
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1959317.00/cwt317.00–317.003,04015
Steers1050–1100Large 11,056281.00/cwt281.00–281.002,9673
Steers1100–1150Large 11,127292.00/cwt292.00–292.003,2917
Feeder Cattle · Heifers16 lots · lightest first
Heifers250–300Medium and Large 12841,667.88/head1,425.00–1,725.001,66824
Heifers350–400Medium and Large 1-2378461.00/cwt461.00–461.001,7439
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1421505.20/cwt497.00–523.002,12719
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1493420.00/cwt420.00–420.002,0718
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1Replacement508448.00/cwt448.00–448.002,2769
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1538392.01/cwt382.50–417.502,10926
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1560382.36/cwt378.00–400.002,14161
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1645372.79/cwt357.00–389.002,40485
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1686361.18/cwt360.00–365.002,47817
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1766353.48/cwt344.00–357.002,70823
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1812345.87/cwt323.00–347.502,80880
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1880317.50/cwt317.50–317.502,79434
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1913316.00/cwt316.00–316.002,8854
Heifers950–1000Medium and Large 1953326.00/cwt326.00–326.003,1074
Heifers1000–1050Large 11,012305.17/cwt298.25–315.003,08836
Heifers1250–1300Large 11,276248.50/cwt248.50–248.503,1713
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls650–700Medium and Large 1-2687346.00/cwt346.00–346.002,3774

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.