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Owenton Livestock Auction

Name: Owenton Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2020-10-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-10-28

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Owenton, Kentucky · Wed, Oct 28

● Final68 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2203

← Oct 21Oct 28Nov 4 →

Feeder Cattle receipts

275 head

▼ 358 vs last sale 633▲ 0 vs year ago 275 · +0.0%

Slaughter Cattle receipts

55 head

▼ 13 vs last sale 68▼ 1 vs year ago 56 · −1.8%

Replacement Cattle receipts

8 head

▲ 4 vs last sale 4▲ 4 vs year ago 4 · +100.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week feeder steers sold 5.00 to 7.00 lower. Feeder heifers sold 2.00 to 4.00 lower. There was light to moderate demand for feeder classes. Slaughter cows sold 2.00 to 3.00 lower. Slaughter bulls sold steady. There was moderate demand for slaughter classes.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb bulls averaged $118.16/cwt on 91 head. That ranks 1 of 5 comparable sales and sits −97.54 against this barn's trailing median of $215.70.

Average price

$118.16

91 head · 532 lb average

Value per head Derived

$629

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$25

per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Medium and Large 2-3

$21.69/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−2.34

vs KY average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1-2	499	123.64	617	68
Medium and Large 2-3	630	101.95	642	23

One grade step is worth $21.69/cwt here — about −$25 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale91 hd

118.16

—

KY average28 barns · 2,917 hd

120.50

−2.34

This barn, trailing median5 sales

215.70

−97.54

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 0–100 lb

5 sales

Bulls 0–100 lb: high $221.00, low $188.98, median $215.70 across 5 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

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	—	Average	1,807	83.52	1,509	3thin
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,234	53.91	665	35
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,648	53.49	881	4thin
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	968	46.11	446	4thin

Every lot

68 lots · USDA AMS · United Producers, Inc. - Owenton, KY

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
Feeder Cattle · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	365	131.00/cwt	131.00–131.00	478	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	443	142.00/cwt	142.00–142.00	629	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	468	144.10/cwt	140.00–148.00	674	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	473	127.65/cwt	127.00–128.00	604	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	520	122.15/cwt	118.00–126.00	635	2
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	535	108.00/cwt	108.00–108.00	578	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	567	125.74/cwt	120.00–131.00	713	14
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	580	116.00/cwt	116.00–116.00	673	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	601	129.34/cwt	128.00–132.00	777	6
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	619	109.97/cwt	108.00–112.00	681	5
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	682	123.00/cwt	120.00–124.00	839	4
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	700	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	777	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	716	121.12/cwt	117.00–123.00	867	7
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	760	103.00/cwt	103.00–103.00	783	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	835	102.00/cwt	102.00–102.00	852	1
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	952	102.00/cwt	102.00–102.00	971	2
Feeder Cattle · Heifers19 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	323	102.89/cwt	101.00–105.00	332	2
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	365	110.00/cwt	110.00–110.00	402	2
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	380	125.00/cwt	125.00–125.00	475	1
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	417	119.48/cwt	115.00–128.00	498	11
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	433	110.43/cwt	110.00–111.00	478	7
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	478	112.99/cwt	111.00–115.00	540	2
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	479	123.71/cwt	119.00–129.00	593	9
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	532	125.92/cwt	116.00–130.00	670	20
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	541	104.00/cwt	102.00–105.00	563	3
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	561	116.79/cwt	112.00–120.00	655	5
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	575	106.00/cwt	106.00–106.00	610	1
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	634	101.25/cwt	101.00–102.00	642	4
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	661	100.65/cwt	99.00–104.00	665	8
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	685	91.00/cwt	91.00–91.00	623	1
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	710	92.00/cwt	92.00–92.00	653	1
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	740	100.00/cwt	99.00–101.00	740	2
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	760	95.67/cwt	95.00–96.00	727	3
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	815	89.00/cwt	89.00–89.00	725	1
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2-3	855	88.50/cwt	88.00–89.00	757	2
Feeder Cattle · Bulls22 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	260	148.00/cwt	144.00–150.00	385	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	345	130.00/cwt	130.00–130.00	449	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	368	132.67/cwt	129.00–136.00	488	2
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	395	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	438	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	414	125.53/cwt	121.00–129.00	520	8
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	445	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	512	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	467	126.08/cwt	120.00–133.00	589	23
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	483	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	536	2
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	525	103.46/cwt	102.00–105.00	543	2
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	532	121.18/cwt	119.00–124.00	645	13
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	564	116.00/cwt	114.00–119.00	654	10
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	579	106.65/cwt	104.00–108.00	618	6
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	610	101.34/cwt	100.00–103.00	618	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	620	120.68/cwt	120.00–121.00	748	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	672	108.03/cwt	102.00–111.00	726	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	674	120.00/cwt	120.00–120.00	809	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	770	82.00/cwt	82.00–82.00	631	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	780	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	866	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	805	87.00/cwt	85.00–89.00	700	2
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	820	96.00/cwt	96.00–96.00	787	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	865	88.00/cwt	88.00–88.00	761	1
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 2-3	1,065	78.00/cwt	78.00–78.00	831	1
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,807	83.52/cwt	82.50–84.50	1,509	3
Slaughter Cattle · Cows7 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	965	50.48/cwt	49.50–51.50	487	2
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	970	41.74/cwt	41.00–42.50	405	2
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,205	47.49/cwt	46.50–48.50	572	4
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,236	54.18/cwt	49.00–57.50	670	27
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,253	58.49/cwt	58.00–59.00	733	4
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,620	48.50/cwt	48.50–48.50	786	1
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,657	55.15/cwt	54.50–55.50	914	3
Replacement Cattle · Bred Cows3 lots · lightest first
Bred Cows	—	Medium and Large 1-2	835	500.00/cwt	500.00–500.00	4,175	1
Bred Cows	—	Medium and Large 1-2	1,183	771.28/cwt	580.00–900.00	9,124	3
Bred Cows	—	Medium and Large 1-2	1,457	785.38/cwt	740.00–830.00	11,443	3

This sale against other markets

Kentucky weighted averages

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

Kentucky feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

United Producers, Inc. - Owenton, KY

Wed Oct 28, 2020

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Frankfort, KY (LS-LG)

Feeder CattleReceipts 275Last week 633Year ago 275

Slaughter CattleReceipts 55Last week 68Year ago 56

Replacement CattleReceipts 8Last week 4Year ago 4

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	345	130.00	130.00
3	—	260	144.00–150.00	148.00
13	—	532	119.00–124.00	121.18
23	—	467	120.00–133.00	126.08
3	—	674	120.00	120.00
3	—	620	120.00–121.00	120.68
10	—	564	114.00–119.00	116.00
8	—	414	121.00–129.00	125.53
2	—	368	129.00–136.00	132.67
1	—	820	96.00	96.00
1	—	780	111.00	111.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	610	100.00–103.00	101.34
3	—	672	102.00–111.00	108.03
2	—	525	102.00–105.00	103.46
1	—	865	88.00	88.00
1	—	445	115.00	115.00
1	—	1,065	78.00	78.00
6	—	579	104.00–108.00	106.65
1	—	770	82.00	82.00
2	—	483	111.00	111.00
1	—	395	111.00	111.00
2	—	805	85.00–89.00	87.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	855	88.00–89.00	88.50
1	—	685	91.00	91.00
2	—	365	110.00	110.00
2	—	478	111.00–115.00	112.99
1	—	710	92.00	92.00
1	—	575	106.00	106.00
2	—	323	101.00–105.00	102.89
1	—	815	89.00	89.00
3	—	541	102.00–105.00	104.00
7	—	433	110.00–111.00	110.43

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	380	125.00	125.00
11	—	417	115.00–128.00	119.48
4	—	634	101.00–102.00	101.25
3	—	760	95.00–96.00	95.67
2	—	740	99.00–101.00	100.00
9	—	479	119.00–129.00	123.71
8	—	661	99.00–104.00	100.65
5	—	561	112.00–120.00	116.79
20	—	532	116.00–130.00	125.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	567	120.00–131.00	125.74
3	—	443	142.00	142.00
2	—	952	102.00	102.00
2	—	520	118.00–126.00	122.15
7	—	716	117.00–123.00	121.12
6	—	601	128.00–132.00	129.34
1	—	835	102.00	102.00
1	—	365	131.00	131.00
4	—	682	120.00–124.00	123.00
3	—	468	140.00–148.00	144.10

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	760	103.00	103.00
1	—	700	111.00	111.00
1	—	580	116.00	116.00
3	—	473	127.00–128.00	127.65
1	—	535	108.00	108.00
5	—	619	108.00–112.00	109.97

Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bred Cows — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	1st Stage (1-3 mo)	3	—	1,457	740.00–830.00	785.38
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	2nd Stage (4-6 mo)	3	—	1,183	580.00–900.00	771.28
Young/Middle Aged (2-8 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	1	—	835	500.00	500.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
27	—	1,236	49.00–57.50	54.18
4	—	1,205	46.50–48.50	47.49
4	—	1,253	58.00–59.00	58.49

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	965	49.50–51.50	50.48
2	—	970	41.00–42.50	41.74

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,657	54.50–55.50	55.15
1	—	1,620	48.50	48.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,807	82.50–84.50	83.52

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.