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Callaway Livestock Center

Name: Callaway Livestock Center livestock auction prices — 2024-10-14
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-14

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Kingdom City, Missouri · Mon, Oct 14

● Final72 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1819

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Feeder Cattle receipts

2,366 head

▲ 1,053 vs last sale 1,313▲ 870 vs year ago 1,496 · +58.2%

Slaughter Cattle receipts

170 head

▲ 30 vs last sale 140▼ 175 vs year ago 345 · −50.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week, feeder steers weighing 400-700 lbs sold steady to firm, spots on the 5 weight steers sold 2.00-4.00 higher, with yearling steers over 750 lbs selling with a firm to higher undertone with no recent comparisons on the pot loads and part loads. Feeder heifers weighing 400-500 lbs sold 10.00-12.00 higher, with 500-650 lbs trading steady to firm, over 650 lbs traded with a firm undertone. Demand was good on a moderate offering with a good quality offering of calves and yearlings. There was eight pot loads of yearling steers and heifers with several part loads in the mix with several stick out sales included pot load 640 lb steers at 288.00, pot load 675 lb steers at 286.60, pot load 863 lb steers at 244.00. Slaughter cows sold on and active market with a good offering of high yielding cows selling firm to 5.00 higher with the most advance on the high dressing cows.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $305.55/cwt on 165 head. That ranks 1 of 32 comparable sales and sits −174.47 against this barn's trailing median of $480.02.

Average price

$305.55

165 head · 537 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,641

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$446

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium 2

$89.65/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+17.74

vs MO average

+6.22 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	537	311.65	1,673	126
Medium and Large 1-2	537	291.18	1,562	36
Medium 2	553	222.00	1,228	3thin

One grade step is worth $89.65/cwt here — about $446 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale165 hd

305.55

—

MO average17 barns · 2,155 hd

287.81

+17.74

National average188 barns · 32,793 hd

299.33

+6.22

This barn, trailing median32 sales

480.02

−174.47

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 500–600 lb

32 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $525.16, low $385.53, median $480.02 across 32 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	—	High	1,751	151.73	2,657	17
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	High	1,718	144.98	2,491	3thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,445	136.33	1,970	31
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Low	1,238	126.13	1,562	54
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,071	106.91	1,145	31

Every lot

72 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 · Steers22 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	348	322.50/cwt	322.50–322.50	1,122	3
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	356	392.25/cwt	383.00–397.00	1,396	9
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	430	351.07/cwt	339.00–359.00	1,510	28
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	469	340.50/cwt	328.00–362.00	1,597	31
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	483	302.00/cwt	302.00–302.00	1,459	5
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	484	320.97/cwt	320.00–324.00	1,553	12
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	491	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,547	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	523	292.90/cwt	291.00–299.00	1,532	27
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	524	314.22/cwt	306.00–322.00	1,647	83
Steers	550–600	Medium 2	553	222.00/cwt	222.00–222.00	1,228	3
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	562	306.68/cwt	290.00–319.00	1,724	43
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	577	286.02/cwt	285.00–286.50	1,650	9
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	617	268.89/cwt	264.00–274.00	1,659	11
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	629	283.54/cwt	274.50–288.25	1,783	231
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	639	248.61/cwt	245.00–254.00	1,589	10
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	668	266.03/cwt	257.00–270.00	1,777	38
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	674	285.34/cwt	276.50–286.60	1,923	87
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	731	254.79/cwt	249.50–261.00	1,863	27
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	780	252.71/cwt	250.25–255.50	1,971	205
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	803	252.50/cwt	252.50–252.50	2,028	5
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	876	241.97/cwt	240.00–244.00	2,120	120
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1-2	919	238.00/cwt	238.00–238.00	2,187	13
Feeder Cattle · Heifers30 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	345	348.50/cwt	346.00–351.00	1,202	6
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	371	327.69/cwt	319.00–347.00	1,216	12
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	419	286.60/cwt	286.00–287.00	1,201	10
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	426	315.55/cwt	308.00–322.00	1,344	40
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	467	279.22/cwt	274.00–284.00	1,304	14
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	469	299.83/cwt	287.00–305.00	1,406	26
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 2	477	261.00/cwt	261.00–261.00	1,245	5
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	478	283.50/cwt	283.50–283.50	1,355	17
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	490	261.00/cwt	261.00–261.00	1,279	4
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	509	270.28/cwt	263.00–275.50	1,376	17
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	518	281.83/cwt	278.00–286.00	1,460	65
Heifers	500–550	Medium 2	537	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	1,203	5
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	542	268.03/cwt	264.00–269.00	1,453	15
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 2	565	202.00/cwt	202.00–202.00	1,141	8
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	568	262.88/cwt	260.00–266.00	1,493	16
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	572	275.32/cwt	270.50–278.50	1,575	145
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	606	267.50/cwt	267.50–267.50	1,621	21
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	611	272.97/cwt	270.00–278.00	1,668	41
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	618	261.23/cwt	259.00–265.50	1,614	19
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	636	282.25/cwt	282.25–282.25	1,795	34
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	641	245.50/cwt	245.50–245.50	1,574	6
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 2	647	241.00/cwt	241.00–241.00	1,559	10
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	657	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	1,741	10
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	679	244.31/cwt	242.00–246.00	1,659	12
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	702	235.59/cwt	232.00–241.00	1,654	15
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 2	733	226.00/cwt	226.00–226.00	1,657	3
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	745	245.51/cwt	245.00–246.00	1,829	130
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	780	233.27/cwt	230.50–233.75	1,820	91
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	846	221.00/cwt	221.00–221.00	1,870	5
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1-2	936	206.00/cwt	206.00–206.00	1,928	5
Feeder Cattle · Bulls6 lots · lightest first
Bulls	450–500	Medium 1-2	493	222.00/cwt	222.00–222.00	1,094	5
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 2	505	213.00/cwt	213.00–213.00	1,076	3
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	516	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	1,367	4
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	536	277.81/cwt	276.00–279.00	1,489	10
Bulls	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	603	241.16/cwt	236.00–245.00	1,454	7
Bulls	650–700	Medium and Large 2	683	184.00/cwt	184.00–184.00	1,257	6
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls3 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,686	153.53/cwt	148.00–157.00	2,589	11
Bulls	—	—	1,784	142.37/cwt	137.00–145.00	2,540	4
Bulls	—	—	2,043	160.53/cwt	160.00–161.00	3,280	2
Slaughter Cattle · Cows11 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,056	115.39/cwt	108.00–120.00	1,219	14
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,058	128.47/cwt	125.00–135.00	1,359	3
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,084	99.35/cwt	95.00–103.00	1,077	8
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,095	86.40/cwt	82.00–91.00	946	6
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,201	122.83/cwt	117.00–129.00	1,475	14
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,225	111.97/cwt	105.00–115.00	1,372	14
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,265	135.54/cwt	130.00–143.00	1,715	26
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,405	111.00/cwt	111.00–111.00	1,560	2
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,447	139.08/cwt	133.00–144.00	2,012	26
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,458	129.35/cwt	128.00–130.00	1,886	3
Cows	—	Premium White 65-75%	1,718	144.98/cwt	144.00–146.00	2,491	3

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 14, 2024

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 2,366Last week 1,313Year ago 1,496

Slaughter CattleReceipts 170Last week 140Year ago 345

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	400–450	419	286.00–287.00	286.60
14	450–500	467	274.00–284.00	279.22
15	500–550	542	264.00–269.00	268.03
16	550–600	568	260.00–266.00	262.88
19	600–650	618	259.00–265.50	261.23
12	650–700	679	242.00–246.00	244.31
15	700–750	702	232.00–241.00	235.59
5	900–950	936	206.00	206.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	345	346.00–351.00	348.50
12	350–400	371	319.00–347.00	327.69
40	400–450	426	308.00–322.00	315.55
26	450–500	469	287.00–305.00	299.83
65	500–550	518	278.00–286.00	281.83
145	550–600	572	270.50–278.50	275.32
41	600–650	611	270.00–278.00	272.97
10	650–700	657	265.00	265.00
130	700–750	745	245.00–246.00	245.51
91	750–800	780	230.50–233.75	233.27
5	800–850	846	221.00	221.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
34	600–650	636	282.25	282.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
17	450–500	478	283.50	283.50
17	500–550	509	263.00–275.50	270.28
21	600–650	606	267.50	267.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	500–550	537	224.00	224.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	477	261.00	261.00
8	550–600	565	202.00	202.00
10	600–650	647	241.00	241.00
3	700–750	733	226.00	226.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
4	450–500	490	261.00	261.00
6	600–650	641	245.50	245.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	350–400	356	383.00–397.00	392.25
28	400–450	430	339.00–359.00	351.07
31	450–500	469	328.00–362.00	340.50
83	500–550	524	306.00–322.00	314.22
43	550–600	562	290.00–319.00	306.68
231	600–650	629	274.50–288.25	283.54
87	650–700	674	276.50–286.60	285.34
205	750–800	780	250.25–255.50	252.71
5	800–850	803	252.50	252.50
120	850–900	876	240.00–244.00	241.97

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	483	302.00	302.00
10	600–650	639	245.00–254.00	248.61

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	300–350	348	322.50	322.50
12	450–500	484	320.00–324.00	320.97
27	500–550	523	291.00–299.00	292.90
9	550–600	577	285.00–286.50	286.02
11	600–650	617	264.00–274.00	268.89
38	650–700	668	257.00–270.00	266.03
27	700–750	731	249.50–261.00	254.79
13	900–950	919	238.00	238.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
6	450–500	491	315.00	315.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium 2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	550–600	553	222.00	222.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	493	222.00	222.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	500–550	516	265.00	265.00
7	600–650	603	236.00–245.00	241.16

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
10	500–550	536	276.00–279.00	277.81

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	500–550	505	213.00	213.00
6	650–700	683	184.00	184.00

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,405	111.00	111.00
26	—	1,447	133.00–144.00	139.08
3	—	1,458	128.00–130.00	129.35

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,225	105.00–115.00	111.97
26	—	1,265	130.00–143.00	135.54
14	—	1,201	117.00–129.00	122.83

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,718	144.00–146.00	144.98

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,056	108.00–120.00	115.39
6	—	1,095	82.00–91.00	86.40
8	—	1,084	95.00–103.00	99.35
3	—	1,058	125.00–135.00	128.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	2,043	160.00–161.00	160.53
11	—	1,686	148.00–157.00	153.53
4	—	1,784	137.00–145.00	142.37

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.