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Ozarks Regional Stockyards

Name: Ozarks Regional Stockyards livestock auction prices — 2025-03-04
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-03-04

Feeder Cattle · West Plains, Missouri · Tue, Mar 4

● Final70 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1249

← Feb 25Mar 4Mar 11 →

Receipts

2,575 head

▼ 114 vs last sale 2,689▼ 556 vs year ago 3,131 · −17.8%

Also sold hereSlaughter/Replacement CattleWed Oct 28, 2026 Cattle SpecialFri Aug 14, 2026

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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Compared to last week, feeder steers and heifers sold steady to 4.00 higher. Steer and heifer calves sold unevenly steady from 3.00 lower to 3.00 higher. Demand was moderate and improved throughout the day. The supply was moderate with a particularly good offering of yearlings. The largest draft of the day was 60 head of 864 lbs. steers which brought 260.00/cwt. The cattle futures opened sharply lower but rebounded throughout the day.

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 $336.66/cwt on 280 head. That ranks 1 of 35 comparable sales and sits −109.06 against this barn's trailing median of $445.72.

Average price

$336.66

280 head · 544 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,833

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$432

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium 2-3

$101.36/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−8.44

vs MO average

−12.62 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	542	351.36	1,904	123
Large 1	562	331.00	1,860	10thin
Medium and Large 1-2	544	329.47	1,792	133
Medium and Large 2	531	309.53	1,644	7thin
Medium 2-3	589	250.00	1,473	7thin

One grade step is worth $101.36/cwt here — about $432 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 sale280 hd

336.66

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MO average16 barns · 3,438 hd

345.10

−8.44

National average172 barns · 12,998 hd

349.28

−12.62

This barn, trailing median35 sales

445.72

−109.06

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

35 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $507.84, low $348.32, median $445.72 across 35 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

70 lots · USDA AMS · Ozarks Regional Stockyards Feeder Cattle - West Plains, 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 · Steers33 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	312	438.08/cwt	430.00–450.00	1,367	5
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	339	397.82/cwt	395.00–400.00	1,349	7
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	390	422.43/cwt	415.00–425.00	1,647	25
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	424	406.98/cwt	395.00–420.00	1,726	57
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	437	379.29/cwt	365.00–387.50	1,657	33
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 2	443	359.04/cwt	350.00–365.00	1,591	5
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	452	374.99/cwt	370.00–380.00	1,695	10
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	480	353.84/cwt	335.00–365.00	1,698	46
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	506	361.74/cwt	352.50–369.00	1,830	67
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 2	531	309.53/cwt	307.50–311.00	1,644	7
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	533	333.95/cwt	322.50–348.00	1,780	106
Steers	550–600	Large 1	562	331.00/cwt	331.00–331.00	1,860	10
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	585	338.95/cwt	324.00–345.00	1,983	56
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	586	311.90/cwt	293.00–317.50	1,828	27
Steers	550–600	Medium 2-3	589	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,473	7
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	621	299.59/cwt	287.50–315.00	1,860	87
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	628	332.95/cwt	327.50–335.00	2,091	38
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	654	311.35/cwt	307.00–330.00	2,036	77
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	673	279.25/cwt	267.50–295.00	1,879	61
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 2	685	263.76/cwt	262.50–265.00	1,807	8
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	714	295.73/cwt	288.00–301.00	2,112	83
Steers	700–750	Medium 2-3	714	215.00/cwt	215.00–215.00	1,535	7
Steers	700–750	Medium 1-2	718	268.00/cwt	268.00–268.00	1,924	10
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	729	268.41/cwt	257.00–277.50	1,957	21
Steers	750–800	Medium 1-2	759	259.50/cwt	259.50–259.50	1,970	8
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	765	276.15/cwt	275.00–282.00	2,113	61
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 2	773	224.72/cwt	220.00–228.00	1,737	24
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	789	258.58/cwt	239.00–261.50	2,040	55
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	821	263.65/cwt	263.00–266.00	2,165	26
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1-2	821	252.78/cwt	245.00–255.00	2,075	33
Steers	800–850	Medium 1-2	832	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	2,080	9
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	865	257.53/cwt	254.00–260.00	2,228	102
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1-2	893	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	2,188	7
Feeder Cattle · Heifers31 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1	266	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	1,117	6
Heifers	300–350	Medium 2-3	300	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	930	15
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	325	355.43/cwt	335.00–365.00	1,155	8
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	334	379.07/cwt	372.50–390.00	1,266	15
Heifers	350–400	Medium 2-3	351	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	1,106	23
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	376	332.41/cwt	320.00–345.00	1,250	24
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	419	346.37/cwt	335.00–360.00	1,451	53
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	430	318.77/cwt	307.50–330.00	1,371	36
Heifers	400–450	Medium 2	442	260.00/cwt	260.00–260.00	1,149	6
Heifers	400–450	Medium 2-3	448	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,120	14
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	482	334.53/cwt	323.00–350.00	1,612	76
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	484	313.49/cwt	290.00–320.00	1,517	28
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 2	492	288.51/cwt	287.50–290.00	1,419	10
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	520	320.95/cwt	315.00–330.00	1,669	84
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 2	522	271.23/cwt	260.00–280.00	1,416	9
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	527	303.00/cwt	288.00–312.00	1,597	31
Heifers	500–550	Medium 1-2	532	297.59/cwt	282.50–305.00	1,583	6
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	566	293.67/cwt	285.00–296.00	1,662	37
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	578	272.09/cwt	260.00–282.00	1,573	70
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	614	278.48/cwt	270.00–290.00	1,710	131
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	631	263.22/cwt	255.00–265.00	1,661	11
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 2	658	212.50/cwt	212.50–212.50	1,398	10
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	662	248.70/cwt	240.00–253.00	1,646	18
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	665	267.59/cwt	257.50–275.00	1,779	75
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	721	242.46/cwt	240.00–245.00	1,748	10
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	749	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,835	29
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	777	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,950	29
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	779	231.53/cwt	224.00–235.00	1,804	12
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	800	243.00/cwt	243.00–243.00	1,944	10
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1-2	812	224.00/cwt	224.00–224.00	1,819	9
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 2	990	145.00/cwt	145.00–145.00	1,436	21
Feeder Cattle · Bulls6 lots · lightest first
Bulls	350–400	Medium 1-2	358	325.00/cwt	325.00–325.00	1,164	22
Bulls	450–500	Medium and Large 1	454	339.91/cwt	330.00–360.00	1,543	6
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1	523	317.88/cwt	310.00–330.00	1,663	5
Bulls	600–650	Medium and Large 1	609	285.18/cwt	276.00–300.00	1,737	10
Bulls	700–750	Medium and Large 1	709	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,914	5
Bulls	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	712	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,709	6

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 →

Ozarks Regional Stockyards Feeder Cattle - West Plains, MO

Tue Mar 4, 2025

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

Receipts 2,575Last week 2,689Year ago 3,131

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Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	250–300	266	420.00	420.00
15	300–350	334	372.50–390.00	379.07
53	400–450	419	335.00–360.00	346.37
76	450–500	482	323.00–350.00	334.53
84	500–550	520	315.00–330.00	320.95
37	550–600	566	285.00–296.00	293.67
131	600–650	614	270.00–290.00	278.48
75	650–700	665	257.50–275.00	267.59
29	700–750	749	245.00	245.00
29	750–800	777	251.00	251.00
10	800–850	800	243.00	243.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	300–350	325	335.00–365.00	355.43
24	350–400	376	320.00–345.00	332.41
36	400–450	430	307.50–330.00	318.77
28	450–500	484	290.00–320.00	313.49
31	500–550	527	288.00–312.00	303.00
70	550–600	578	260.00–282.00	272.09
11	600–650	631	255.00–265.00	263.22
18	650–700	662	240.00–253.00	248.70
10	700–750	721	240.00–245.00	242.46
12	750–800	779	224.00–235.00	231.53
9	800–850	812	224.00	224.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	450–500	492	287.50–290.00	288.51
9	500–550	522	260.00–280.00	271.23
10	650–700	658	212.50	212.50
21	950–1000	990	145.00	145.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
15	300–350	300	310.00	310.00
23	350–400	351	315.00	315.00
14	400–450	448	250.00	250.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	500–550	532	282.50–305.00	297.59

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	442	260.00	260.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	339	395.00–400.00	397.82
33	400–450	437	365.00–387.50	379.29
46	450–500	480	335.00–365.00	353.84
106	500–550	533	322.50–348.00	333.95
27	550–600	586	293.00–317.50	311.90
87	600–650	621	287.50–315.00	299.59
61	650–700	673	267.50–295.00	279.25
21	700–750	729	257.00–277.50	268.41
55	750–800	789	239.00–261.50	258.58
33	800–850	821	245.00–255.00	252.78
7	850–900	893	245.00	245.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	443	350.00–365.00	359.04
7	500–550	531	307.50–311.00	309.53
8	650–700	685	262.50–265.00	263.76
24	750–800	773	220.00–228.00	224.72

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
7	550–600	589	250.00	250.00
7	700–750	714	215.00	215.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	550–600	562	331.00	331.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	700–750	718	268.00	268.00
8	750–800	759	259.50	259.50
9	800–850	832	250.00	250.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	300–350	312	430.00–450.00	438.08
25	350–400	390	415.00–425.00	422.43
57	400–450	424	395.00–420.00	406.98
10	450–500	452	370.00–380.00	374.99
67	500–550	506	352.50–369.00	361.74
56	550–600	585	324.00–345.00	338.95
38	600–650	628	327.50–335.00	332.95
77	650–700	654	307.00–330.00	311.35
83	700–750	714	288.00–301.00	295.73
61	750–800	765	275.00–282.00	276.15
26	800–850	821	263.00–266.00	263.65
102	850–900	865	254.00–260.00	257.53

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
22	350–400	358	325.00	325.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	450–500	454	330.00–360.00	339.91
5	500–550	523	310.00–330.00	317.88
10	600–650	609	276.00–300.00	285.18
5	700–750	709	270.00	270.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	700–750	712	240.00	240.00

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.