Sale reports / Kansas / Winter Livestock - Dodge City / 2021-02-17

Winter Livestock - Dodge City

Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Dodge City, Kansas · Wed, Feb 17
● Final11 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1889
Slaughter Cattle receipts
27 head
▲ 27 vs last sale 0▼ 173 vs year ago 200 · −86.5%
Replacement Cattle receipts
72 head
▲ 62 vs last sale 10▼ 3 vs year ago 75 · −4.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

* Final Report *

No feeder cattle and calves were available due to weather. Not enough slaughter cows and bulls for a market test. Majority of the sale was bred cows.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Average1,04566.006902thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Average1,17169.3381219
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,38058.388062thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,24546.955852thin

Every lot

11 lots · USDA AMS · Winter Livestock - Dodge City, KS
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
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls——98561.00/cwt61.00–61.006011
Bulls——1,10571.00/cwt71.00–71.007851
Slaughter Cattle · Cows4 lots · lightest first
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,13362.75/cwt61.00–67.007114
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,18171.09/cwt69.00–73.0084015
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,24546.95/cwt46.00–48.005852
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,38058.38/cwt58.00–59.008062
Replacement Cattle · Bred Cows5 lots · lightest first
Bred Cows—Medium 19061,150.00/cwt1,150.00–1,150.0010,4194
Bred Cows—Medium and Large 11,0351,550.19/cwt1,525.00–1,575.0016,04456
Bred Cows—Medium and Large 11,0391,350.00/cwt1,350.00–1,350.0014,0278
Bred Cows—Medium and Large 11,180850.00/cwt850.00–850.0010,0301
Bred Cows—Medium and Large 11,3901,085.00/cwt1,085.00–1,085.0015,0821

This sale against other markets

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