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Topeka Livestock Auction

Name: Topeka Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-14

Slaughter Cattle · Topeka, Indiana · Tue, Jan 14

● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 3415

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Receipts

50 head

▼ 43 vs last sale 93▼ 56 vs year ago 106 · −52.8%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Today's harsh weather prohibits a comparison to last week due to the very light offerings of cattle today. Livestock movement was largely halted due to hazardous road conditions, and this weather is forecasted into the immediate future throughout the area.

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	1,563	113.46	1,773	2thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,880	112.00	2,106	1thin
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,090	105.00	1,145	1thin
Dairy Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,889	118.15	2,232	4thin
Dairy Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,578	114.68	1,810	5thin
Dairy Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,223	98.51	1,205	19

Every lot

10 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 · Cows3 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,090	105.00/cwt	105.00–105.00	1,145	1
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,563	113.46/cwt	112.50–114.50	1,773	2
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,880	112.00/cwt	112.00–112.00	2,106	1
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Cows7 lots · lightest first
Dairy Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,119	93.80/cwt	90.00–98.00	1,050	7
Dairy Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,133	84.61/cwt	80.00–86.50	959	3
Dairy Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,334	106.81/cwt	103.00–109.00	1,425	9
Dairy Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,568	116.56/cwt	115.00–118.00	1,828	2
Dairy Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,580	105.65/cwt	104.00–107.00	1,669	2
Dairy Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,595	129.00/cwt	129.00–129.00	2,058	1
Dairy Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,889	118.15/cwt	116.50–120.00	2,232	4

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 Jan 14, 2025

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

Receipts 50Last week 93Year ago 106

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,563	112.50–114.50	113.46

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,880	112.00	112.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,090	105.00	105.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,568	115.00–118.00	116.56
1	—	1,595	129.00	129.00
2	—	1,580	104.00–107.00	105.65

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,889	116.50–120.00	118.15

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,119	90.00–98.00	93.80
9	—	1,334	103.00–109.00	106.81
3	—	1,133	80.00–86.50	84.61

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.