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Topeka Livestock Auction

Name: Topeka Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2023-10-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-10-24

Slaughter Cattle · Topeka, Indiana · Tue, Oct 24

● Final8 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 3415

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Receipts

132 head

▼ 38 vs last sale 170▼ 28 vs year ago 160 · −17.5%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, slaughter cows were 4.00 lower. Light receipts today as local farmers had a break in the rainy weather and had a nice fall day to focus on the harvest. Note: No Topeka Livestock Auction next week because of the horse sale.

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
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,548	96.34	1,491	13
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,843	89.50	1,649	6thin
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,301	76.30	993	48

Every lot

8 lots · USDA AMS · Topeka Livestock Auction - Topeka, IN

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 · Cows8 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,192	73.65/cwt	68.50–79.00	878	19
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,300	62.90/cwt	57.00–67.00	818	10
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,411	85.99/cwt	80.00–91.50	1,213	19
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,514	89.75/cwt	88.00–91.50	1,359	4
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,560	106.60/cwt	103.50–109.00	1,663	2
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,564	97.17/cwt	93.50–102.00	1,520	7
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,780	100.50/cwt	100.50–100.50	1,789	1
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,855	87.30/cwt	84.00–89.50	1,619	5

This sale against other markets

Indiana weighted averages

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

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Topeka Livestock Auction - Topeka, IN

Tue Oct 24, 2023

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Indianapolis, IN (LS-IS)

Receipts 132Last week 170Year ago 160

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,564	93.50–102.00	97.17
2	—	1,560	103.50–109.00	106.60
4	—	1,514	88.00–91.50	89.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,855	84.00–89.50	87.30
1	—	1,780	100.50	100.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
19	—	1,192	68.50–79.00	73.65
19	—	1,411	80.00–91.50	85.99
10	—	1,300	57.00–67.00	62.90

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.