Sale reports / Missouri / Green City Livestock Auction / 2025-01-09

Green City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Green City, Missouri · Thu, Jan 9
● Final18 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1254
Receipts
423 head
▼ 2,735 vs last sale 3,158▼ 2,197 vs year ago 2,620 · −83.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Not enough cattle on offer for a price comparison. Receipts were curtailed by a winter storm, making cattle movement difficult. Supply light, demand moderate.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $325.91/cwt on 42 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −145.30 against this barn's trailing median of $471.21.
Average price
$325.91
42 head · 551 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,797
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$280
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$35.36/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+1.53
vs MO average
−16.17 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1556331.801,84535
Medium and Large 1-2528296.441,5657thin
One grade step is worth $35.36/cwt here — about $280 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 sale42 hd
325.91
—
MO average9 barns · 1,997 hd
324.38
+1.53
National average155 barns · 22,672 hd
342.08
−16.17
This barn, trailing median8 sales
471.21
−145.30
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

8 sales
527481434388median 471.2103/1805/0606/2909/0210/07
Steers 500–600 lb: high $512.92, low $402.06, median $471.21 across 8 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

18 lots · USDA AMS · Green City Livestock Auction - Green 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 · Steers11 lots · lightest first
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1-2434337.25/cwt323.00–352.501,46417
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1513339.18/cwt338.50–340.001,7409
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1-2528296.44/cwt295.00–297.001,5657
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1571329.25/cwt329.25–329.251,88026
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1-2619281.75/cwt267.50–299.001,74427
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1626302.97/cwt291.50–316.001,89742
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1670287.50/cwt287.50–287.501,92621
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1725274.49/cwt272.50–276.501,99016
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1-2772269.75/cwt269.75–269.752,08216
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1785267.50/cwt267.50–267.502,1003
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1865265.75/cwt265.75–265.752,2998
Feeder Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1476317.00/cwt317.00–317.001,5096
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1533290.97/cwt290.00–292.501,55133
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1607285.90/cwt280.00–291.501,73529
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1671276.55/cwt269.50–280.001,85671
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1-2706265.00/cwt265.00–265.001,8715
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1-2798229.00/cwt229.00–229.001,82710
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls550–600Medium and Large 1-2574260.00/cwt260.00–260.001,4928

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.