Sale reports / Missouri / Green City Livestock Auction / 2025-11-25

Green City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Green City, Missouri · Tue, Nov 25
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1254
Receipts
2,254 head
▲ 1,785 vs last sale 469▲ 2,254 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to the last tested yearling market three weeks ago, steers and heifers sold 10.00 to 20.00 lower. This was the first day of Green City Livestock's Annual Thanksgiving Special, featuring yearlings on Tuesday and calves on Friday. Cattle on Tuesday were offered mostly in load lots from reputation backgrounders with all the work done. Quality was outstanding throughout the day with steers greatly outnumbering the heifers. The cattle sector has certainly taken a hit the past several weeks with the packer gaining quite a bit of margin back and producers wondering if the law of supply and demand no longer applies. Buyers still need to own cattle but at reduced price levels; empty pens don't make money but last week's prices sure don't pencil out today. The bulk of the cattle went to just a handful of buyers. Worth noting: when compared to the 2024 Thanksgiving Yearling Sale, 2025 yearlings are still trading roughly 55.00 to 80.00/cwt higher than a year ago. Supply moderate, demand moderate to good.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $360.81/cwt on 9 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −110.40 against this barn's trailing median of $471.21.
Average price
$360.81
9 head · 589 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,125
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
—
single grade reported
vs the market
−19.30
vs MO average
−37.86 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2589360.812,1259thin
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale9 hd
360.81
—
MO average17 barns · 2,240 hd
380.11
−19.30
National average33 barns · 4,299 hd
398.67
−37.86
This barn, trailing median8 sales
471.21
−110.40
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

23 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 · Steers14 lots · lightest first
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1-2589360.81/cwt358.00–363.002,1259
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1-2612351.25/cwt351.25–351.252,150101
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1675346.71/cwt345.50–348.002,34034
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1-2684339.50/cwt332.00–340.002,32296
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1718346.39/cwt345.00–350.002,48741
Steers700–750Medium 1-2737326.75/cwt326.75–326.752,40850
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1770335.85/cwt330.50–340.502,586275
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1-2774329.01/cwt320.00–335.002,54739
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1-2812330.50/cwt325.25–331.502,68482
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1832326.60/cwt322.50–329.752,717329
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1-2872309.00/cwt309.00–309.002,69412
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1878317.51/cwt315.00–324.502,78886
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1915310.97/cwt305.00–317.502,845116
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1-2953297.50/cwt297.50–297.502,83563
Feeder Cattle · Heifers9 lots · lightest first
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy497330.00/cwt330.00–330.001,6404
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1580338.09/cwt332.50–354.501,96134
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1628332.72/cwt326.50–350.002,08969
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1671341.40/cwt333.50–348.002,291265
Heifers650–700Medium 1-2674319.50/cwt319.50–319.502,15332
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1715325.05/cwt323.00–327.502,324265
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1-2784310.50/cwt310.50–310.502,43414
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1-2884285.00/cwt285.00–285.002,5198
Heifers900–950Large 1-2913275.00/cwt275.00–275.002,5117

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.