Sale reports / Missouri / Callaway Livestock Center / 2022-08-22

Callaway Livestock Center

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Kingdom City, Missouri · Mon, Aug 22
● Final50 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1819
Feeder Cattle receipts
1,301 head
▲ 680 vs last sale 621▼ 100 vs year ago 1,401 · −7.1%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
147 head
▲ 27 vs last sale 120▲ 42 vs year ago 105 · +40.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week's light offering steer calves sold fully steady to firm with feeder heifers under 600 lbs selling with a sharply higher undertone on last week's light test and heifers over 600 lbs sold with a firm to higher undertone. Mostly calves this week weighing 400-700 lbs selling with very good demand especially the heifers weighing 400-550 lbs and steers 400-650 lbs all sold on and active market. Slaughter cows sold steady to firm.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $185.77/cwt on 576 head. That ranks 1 of 7 comparable sales and sits −67.04 against this barn's trailing median of $252.81.
Average price
$185.77
576 head · 581 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,079
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$122
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$30.67/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+9.13
vs MO average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1593187.861,114426
Medium and Large 1-2536182.55978134
Medium and Large 2631157.1999216thin
One grade step is worth $30.67/cwt here — about $122 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 sale576 hd
185.77
—
MO average15 barns · 6,875 hd
176.64
+9.13
This barn, trailing median7 sales
252.81
−67.04
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

7 sales
271255238222median 252.8103/3005/1106/0106/1506/29
Heifers 0–100 lb: high $257.10, low $235.76, median $252.81 across 7 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 · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Low1,754112.091,96611
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,46992.431,35821
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,23990.601,12339
CowsPremium White 65-75%Average1,71587.001,4921thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,04481.5385146

Every lot

50 lots · USDA AMS · Callaway Livestock Center - Kingdom City, MO
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
Feeder Cattle · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1377225.14/cwt217.50–231.0084915
Steers—Medium and Large 1426227.48/cwt218.50–235.0096928
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2444207.98/cwt200.00–211.0092311
Steers—Medium and Large 1480219.97/cwt216.00–227.001,05627
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2485204.87/cwt195.00–211.0099421
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2513204.00/cwt200.00–207.001,04714
Steers—Medium and Large 1527215.67/cwt209.00–222.001,13745
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned532191.00/cwt189.00–194.001,01612
Steers—Medium and Large 1564214.28/cwt207.00–217.501,20952
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2574197.06/cwt193.00–199.501,13110
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2610201.51/cwt199.50–202.001,22915
Steers—Medium and Large 1633209.56/cwt200.50–214.001,32759
Steers—Medium and Large 1670203.54/cwt198.00–205.001,36448
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2729175.40/cwt175.00–176.001,27912
Steers—Medium and Large 1733188.44/cwt182.00–189.001,38138
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2776172.24/cwt170.00–176.001,33713
Feeder Cattle · Heifers19 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1324220.48/cwt213.00–227.0071414
Heifers—Medium and Large 1385209.52/cwt209.00–210.008076
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2392199.40/cwt199.00–200.007825
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2411196.54/cwt195.00–198.0080818
Heifers—Medium and Large 1418208.56/cwt204.00–213.0087220
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2473189.80/cwt181.00–197.0089814
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed474219.74/cwt219.00–220.001,04212
Heifers—Medium and Large 1478204.06/cwt200.00–208.0097531
Heifers—Medium and Large 1523195.04/cwt188.00–200.001,02055
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2531183.25/cwt178.00–188.0097339
Heifers—Medium and Large 2561165.00/cwt165.00–165.009266
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2577176.02/cwt173.00–180.001,01638
Heifers—Medium and Large 1587186.67/cwt178.00–190.001,096106
Heifers—Medium and Large 1624180.49/cwt175.00–182.001,12667
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2626173.24/cwt170.00–177.001,08412
Heifers—Medium and Large 2642157.50/cwt157.50–157.501,0116
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2708169.50/cwt169.50–169.501,2008
Heifers—Medium and Large 2721145.00/cwt145.00–145.001,0454
Heifers—Medium and Large 1732173.41/cwt172.75–174.501,269115
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls—Medium and Large 1385230.00/cwt230.00–230.008864
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls3 lots · lightest first
Bulls——1,59596.53/cwt96.00–97.001,5402
Bulls——1,789120.12/cwt116.00–126.002,1495
Bulls——1,790109.83/cwt105.00–113.001,9664
Slaughter Cattle · Cows11 lots · lightest first
Cows—Lean 85-90%99656.89/cwt48.00–60.005676
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,02369.17/cwt66.00–73.007084
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,04881.99/cwt76.00–85.0085913
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,05889.85/cwt84.50–95.0095123
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,21387.90/cwt85.00–90.001,06619
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,26280.32/cwt78.00–83.001,0143
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,26495.43/cwt91.00–103.001,20617
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,44088.63/cwt86.00–91.001,2767
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,47496.64/cwt94.00–101.501,42412
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,54580.51/cwt76.00–84.501,2442
Cows—Premium White 65-75%1,71587.00/cwt87.00–87.001,4921

This sale against other markets

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