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Walnut Livestock Auction

Name: Walnut Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-16

Slaughter Cattle · Walnut, Illinois · Thu, Jan 16

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2047

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Receipts

149 head

▲ 5 vs last sale 144▲ 149 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter steers and heifers continued their Upward trend selling 8.00 to 9.00 higher. Slaughter dairy steers and bulls were lightly tested and slaughter cows were not reported today. Trade was active with very 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
Bulls	—	Low	1,813	128.91	2,337	7thin
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,637	168.47	2,758	3thin
Heifers	Choice	Low	1,364	208.42	2,843	31
Heifers	Select and Choice	Average	1,265	171.75	2,173	2thin
Steers	Choice	Average	1,510	208.88	3,154	77
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,560	164.92	2,573	2thin

Every lot

10 lots · USDA AMS · Walnut Auction Sales Slaughter Cattle - Walnut, IL

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 · Steers4 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Choice	1,470	202.24/cwt	195.00–204.50	2,973	12
Steers	—	Choice	1,510	210.29/cwt	205.00–217.00	3,175	63
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,560	164.92/cwt	159.00–171.00	2,573	2
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,738	204.48/cwt	202.00–207.00	3,554	2
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Select and Choice	1,265	171.75/cwt	151.00–193.00	2,173	2
Heifers	—	Choice	1,362	209.76/cwt	205.00–213.00	2,857	29
Heifers	—	Choice	1,397	188.98/cwt	177.00–201.00	2,640	2
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,703	122.06/cwt	121.00–123.00	2,079	3
Bulls	—	—	1,896	134.04/cwt	131.00–140.00	2,541	4
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,637	168.47/cwt	160.00–173.00	2,758	3

This sale against other markets

Illinois weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Illinois auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

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Walnut Auction Sales Slaughter Cattle - Walnut, IL

Thu Jan 16, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Springfield, IL (LS-GX)

Receipts 149Last week 144Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,637	160.00–173.00	168.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,738	202.00–207.00	204.48

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,560	159.00–171.00	164.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	1,470	195.00–204.50	202.24
63	—	1,510	205.00–217.00	210.29

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,265	151.00–193.00	171.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,397	177.00–201.00	188.98
29	—	1,362	205.00–213.00	209.76

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,703	121.00–123.00	122.06
4	—	1,896	131.00–140.00	134.04

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.