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Callaway Livestock Center

Name: Callaway Livestock Center livestock auction prices — 2023-10-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2023-10-09

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Kingdom City, Missouri · Mon, Oct 9

● Final76 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1819

← Oct 2Oct 9Oct 16 →

Feeder Cattle receipts

1,481 head

▼ 271 vs last sale 1,752▼ 450 vs year ago 1,931 · −23.3%

Slaughter Cattle receipts

210 head

▼ 54 vs last sale 264▼ 95 vs year ago 305 · −31.1%

Also sold hereReplacement Cattle SpecialThu Oct 1, 2026

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, light test of 400-550 lb steers sold 5.00-8.00 lower, with 550-700 lbs not well tested with limited comparisons, a pot load of 919 steers sold 7.00 lower than last week's pot load of similar weight and quality. Feeder heifers weighing 400-500 lbs were lightly tested but sold with a weak to lower undertone, 500-550 lbs traded 8.00-10.00 lower and heifers weighing 550-650 lbs were not tested 650-750 lbs sold with a lower undertone on limited comparisons. Demand was moderate on a moderate supply. A typical October price spread in calves as with long time weaned calves with two rounds of shots selling with the best demand and unweaned/short weaned calves with no shots or one round seeing discounts. Slaughter cows sold 2.00-5.00 lower.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb heifers averaged $247.03/cwt on 457 head. That ranks 2 of 7 comparable sales and sits −5.78 against this barn's trailing median of $252.81.

Average price

$247.03

457 head · 611 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,510

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$491

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

$27.11/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+5.50

vs MO average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	633	252.11	1,596	243
Medium and Large 1-2	595	243.12	1,446	187
Large 1-2	579	234.19	1,355	8thin
Medium and Large 2	514	226.67	1,165	12thin
Medium 1-2	491	225.00	1,105	7thin

One grade step is worth $27.11/cwt here — about $491 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 sale457 hd

247.03

—

MO average17 barns · 5,747 hd

241.54

+5.50

This barn, trailing median7 sales

252.81

−5.78

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

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.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Bulls	—	Average	1,847	121.24	2,239	14
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	High	1,625	137.00	2,226	1thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,488	110.23	1,640	29
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,247	103.23	1,287	48
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,020	92.87	947	50

Every lot

76 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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers26 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	345	307.50/cwt	307.50–307.50	1,061	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	397	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	1,239	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	424	317.70/cwt	311.00–319.00	1,347	18
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	425	275.18/cwt	273.00–277.50	1,170	13
Steers	—	Medium 2-3	436	170.00/cwt	170.00–170.00	741	7
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	459	295.54/cwt	290.00–299.00	1,357	13
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	464	279.30/cwt	269.00–290.00	1,296	8
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	479	305.17/cwt	299.00–313.00	1,462	32
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	516	303.75/cwt	294.00–308.00	1,567	18
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	528	276.59/cwt	264.00–287.00	1,460	26
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	539	254.00/cwt	254.00–254.00	1,369	5
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	547	285.00/cwt	285.00–285.00	1,559	17
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	553	295.00/cwt	295.00–295.00	1,631	8
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	553	249.83/cwt	246.00–253.00	1,382	11
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	557	302.75/cwt	302.75–302.75	1,686	25
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	566	259.47/cwt	255.00–269.00	1,469	20
Steers	—	Medium and Large 2	571	249.50/cwt	249.50–249.50	1,425	5
Steers	—	Large 1-2	585	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,433	7
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	631	269.05/cwt	260.00–275.00	1,698	71
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	640	244.00/cwt	244.00–244.00	1,562	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	654	269.00/cwt	269.00–269.00	1,759	10
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	711	247.00/cwt	247.00–247.00	1,756	9
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	746	255.00/cwt	255.00–255.00	1,902	5
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	763	262.75/cwt	262.75–262.75	2,005	24
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	827	233.00/cwt	233.00–233.00	1,927	3
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	917	239.14/cwt	237.50–239.50	2,193	72
Feeder Cattle · Heifers28 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	368	287.00/cwt	283.00–291.00	1,056	6
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	398	256.00/cwt	256.00–256.00	1,019	4
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	417	249.00/cwt	249.00–249.00	1,038	5
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2	425	220.00/cwt	220.00–220.00	935	5
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	426	282.59/cwt	279.00–285.00	1,204	16
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	426	272.34/cwt	269.00–276.00	1,160	14
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	470	281.27/cwt	268.00–286.00	1,322	20
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	470	239.26/cwt	239.00–240.00	1,125	12
Heifers	—	Medium 1-2	491	225.00/cwt	225.00–225.00	1,105	7
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	493	257.00/cwt	257.00–257.00	1,267	9
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2	495	232.00/cwt	232.00–232.00	1,148	3
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	511	237.13/cwt	235.00–241.00	1,212	17
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	532	253.77/cwt	252.50–255.00	1,350	39
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	533	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,306	3
Heifers	—	Large 1-2	533	228.00/cwt	228.00–228.00	1,215	5
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	558	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,339	9
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	561	234.00/cwt	234.00–234.00	1,313	11
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	567	254.00/cwt	254.00–254.00	1,440	17
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	591	228.00/cwt	228.00–228.00	1,347	4
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	608	247.00/cwt	247.00–247.00	1,502	4
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 2	639	231.00/cwt	231.00–231.00	1,476	4
Heifers	—	Large 1-2	655	244.50/cwt	244.50–244.50	1,601	3
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	670	239.93/cwt	233.50–241.25	1,608	65
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	673	254.39/cwt	252.50–254.75	1,712	92
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	718	237.85/cwt	236.25–239.00	1,708	17
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	750	228.25/cwt	228.25–228.25	1,712	20
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	769	224.75/cwt	224.75–224.75	1,728	16
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	842	225.75/cwt	225.75–225.75	1,901	30
Feeder Cattle · Bulls9 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	288	285.00/cwt	285.00–285.00	821	8
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	302	282.50/cwt	282.50–282.50	853	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1	334	303.00/cwt	303.00–303.00	1,012	6
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	411	271.00/cwt	271.00–271.00	1,114	6
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	524	243.03/cwt	242.00–244.00	1,273	6
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	572	242.00/cwt	242.00–242.00	1,384	6
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	645	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	1,535	3
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	683	206.00/cwt	206.00–206.00	1,407	4
Bulls	—	Medium and Large 1-2	810	159.00/cwt	159.00–159.00	1,288	4
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,635	112.91/cwt	108.00–116.00	1,846	3
Bulls	—	—	1,905	123.51/cwt	115.00–127.00	2,353	11
Slaughter Cattle · Cows11 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	947	76.01/cwt	70.00–79.00	720	3
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	993	87.66/cwt	80.00–90.00	870	17
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,036	96.51/cwt	92.50–99.50	1,000	23
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,063	100.80/cwt	100.00–102.00	1,072	7
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,224	98.80/cwt	94.00–102.00	1,209	24
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,263	105.89/cwt	103.00–111.00	1,337	19
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,298	114.40/cwt	113.00–116.00	1,485	5
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,480	108.33/cwt	103.00–113.00	1,603	13
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,482	100.15/cwt	95.00–103.00	1,484	5
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,499	117.06/cwt	114.00–124.00	1,755	11
Cows	—	Premium White 65-75%	1,625	137.00/cwt	137.00–137.00	2,226	1

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.

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

Callaway Livestock Center - Kingdom City, MO

Mon Oct 9, 2023

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Jefferson City, MO (LS-JC)

Feeder CattleReceipts 1,481Last week 1,752Year ago 1,931

Slaughter CattleReceipts 210Last week 264Year ago 305

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	533	228.00	228.00
3	—	655	244.50	244.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	368	283.00–291.00	287.00
3	—	533	245.00	245.00
65	—	670	233.50–241.25	239.93
14	—	426	269.00–276.00	272.34
4	—	608	247.00	247.00
9	—	493	257.00	257.00
17	—	718	236.25–239.00	237.85
16	—	769	224.75	224.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	470	239.00–240.00	239.26
4	—	398	256.00	256.00
11	—	561	234.00	234.00
17	—	511	235.00–241.00	237.13
5	—	417	249.00	249.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	558	240.00	240.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	639	231.00	231.00
3	—	495	232.00	232.00
5	—	425	220.00	220.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	470	268.00–286.00	281.27
20	—	750	228.25	228.25
92	—	673	252.50–254.75	254.39
16	—	426	279.00–285.00	282.59
39	—	532	252.50–255.00	253.77
17	—	567	254.00	254.00
30	—	842	225.75	225.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	591	228.00	228.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	491	225.00	225.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	464	269.00–290.00	279.30
5	—	539	254.00	254.00
11	—	553	246.00–253.00	249.83
13	—	425	273.00–277.50	275.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	547	285.00	285.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	459	290.00–299.00	295.54
3	—	640	244.00	244.00
26	—	528	264.00–287.00	276.59
3	—	397	312.00	312.00
3	—	345	307.50	307.50
3	—	827	233.00	233.00
20	—	566	255.00–269.00	259.47
9	—	711	247.00	247.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	436	170.00	170.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
32	—	479	299.00–313.00	305.17
18	—	516	294.00–308.00	303.75
71	—	631	260.00–275.00	269.05
24	—	763	262.75	262.75
18	—	424	311.00–319.00	317.70
72	—	917	237.50–239.50	239.14
10	—	654	269.00	269.00
8	—	553	295.00	295.00
5	—	746	255.00	255.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
25	—	557	302.75	302.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	585	245.00	245.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	571	249.50	249.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	411	271.00	271.00
4	—	810	159.00	159.00
3	—	645	238.00	238.00
3	—	302	282.50	282.50
8	—	288	285.00	285.00
6	—	524	242.00–244.00	243.03
6	—	572	242.00	242.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	334	303.00	303.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	683	206.00	206.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,063	100.00–102.00	100.80
17	—	993	80.00–90.00	87.66
23	—	1,036	92.50–99.50	96.51
3	—	947	70.00–79.00	76.01

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,298	113.00–116.00	114.40
19	—	1,263	103.00–111.00	105.89
24	—	1,224	94.00–102.00	98.80

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,499	114.00–124.00	117.06
13	—	1,480	103.00–113.00	108.33
5	—	1,482	95.00–103.00	100.15

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,625	137.00	137.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,905	115.00–127.00	123.51
3	—	1,635	108.00–116.00	112.91

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.