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South Central Regional Stockyards

Name: South Central Regional Stockyards livestock auction prices — 2025-08-06
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-06

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Vienna, Missouri · Wed, Aug 6

● Final63 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1817

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Feeder Cattle receipts

993 head

▲ 613 vs last sale 380▲ 993 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

Slaughter Cattle receipts

42 head

▲ 28 vs last sale 14▲ 42 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

Replacement Cattle receipts

10 head

▲ 0 vs last sale 10▲ 10 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Based on limited comparisons with the last trended sale three weeks ago, feeder steers and heifers 20.00-30.00 higher. Slaughter cows steady. Demand very good. Supply moderate. The arrow is still pointing up in the cattle market this week as the profits generated by fed cattle sales continue to be plowed into higher and higher feeders.

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 $415.15/cwt on 125 head. That ranks 2 of 20 comparable sales and sits −64.87 against this barn's trailing median of $480.03.

Average price

$415.15

125 head · 551 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,289

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$169

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

$27.98/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+1.24

vs MO average

+25.13 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	552	421.64	2,329	96
Medium and Large 1-2	549	393.67	2,160	29

One grade step is worth $27.98/cwt here — about $169 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 200–300 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 sale125 hd

415.15

—

MO average12 barns · 2,058 hd

413.92

+1.24

National average145 barns · 8,057 hd

390.02

+25.13

This barn, trailing median20 sales

480.03

−64.87

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

20 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $516.16, low $414.87, median $480.03 across 20 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	—	Low	1,880	200.76	3,774	5thin
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	High	1,464	164.99	2,415	10
Cows	Boner 80-85%	High	1,326	164.72	2,183	6thin
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Low	1,028	141.65	1,456	11

Replacement cattle Per head

By class, stage and age

Bred stock and pairs are reported per head, not per hundredweight — these prices are never mixed with the $/cwt figures above.

Class	Stage	Age	Avg wt	$/head	Head
Bred Cows	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	1,285	$2,748	2thin

Every lot

63 lots · USDA AMS · South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna, 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 · Steers25 lots · lightest first
Steers	250–300	Medium and Large 1	266	592.05/cwt	545.00–601.00	1,575	6
Steers	250–300	Medium and Large 1-2	288	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	1,296	3
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	334	488.09/cwt	462.50–510.00	1,630	6
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	359	530.43/cwt	520.00–540.00	1,904	4
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	377	482.99/cwt	455.00–504.00	1,821	8
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	430	479.00/cwt	479.00–479.00	2,060	3
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	435	500.45/cwt	494.00–507.50	2,177	9
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	481	438.22/cwt	410.00–448.00	2,108	18
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	482	462.76/cwt	444.00–478.00	2,231	40
Steers	450–500	Medium 1	493	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,726	3
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	435.57/cwt	414.00–452.00	2,287	47
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	525	402.26/cwt	390.00–412.00	2,112	9
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	556	399.65/cwt	389.50–404.00	2,222	17
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	561	389.00/cwt	389.00–389.00	2,182	4
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	578	334.00/cwt	334.00–334.00	1,931	3
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	580	410.00/cwt	395.00–422.00	2,378	45
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	408.34/cwt	394.00–420.50	2,511	37
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	621	372.80/cwt	365.00–375.50	2,315	8
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	637	379.58/cwt	378.50–380.50	2,418	13
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	655	349.00/cwt	349.00–349.00	2,286	4
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	673	380.21/cwt	370.00–388.00	2,559	128
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	707	339.00/cwt	339.00–339.00	2,397	15
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	718	348.50/cwt	348.50–348.50	2,502	4
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	719	367.93/cwt	346.00–373.00	2,645	21
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	760	338.80/cwt	338.50–339.50	2,575	10
Feeder Cattle · Heifers22 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1-2	273	425.00/cwt	425.00–425.00	1,160	3
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	317	422.95/cwt	412.00–436.00	1,341	6
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	375	424.21/cwt	415.00–434.00	1,591	9
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	397	431.01/cwt	423.00–434.00	1,711	11
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	417	427.08/cwt	420.00–434.00	1,781	14
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	438	411.14/cwt	401.00–421.00	1,801	14
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	472	394.49/cwt	370.00–409.00	1,862	24
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	479	402.09/cwt	394.00–414.00	1,926	25
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Replacement	510	425.45/cwt	423.00–427.00	2,170	13
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	516	387.18/cwt	381.00–401.00	1,998	30
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	534	389.63/cwt	378.00–410.00	2,081	20
Heifers	550–600	Medium 1-2	560	326.00/cwt	326.00–326.00	1,826	6
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	564	367.65/cwt	364.50–370.00	2,074	7
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Replacement	579	385.33/cwt	385.00–386.00	2,231	27
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	579	365.05/cwt	353.00–380.00	2,114	47
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	600	358.75/cwt	358.75–358.75	2,153	33
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	603	355.33/cwt	352.00–357.00	2,143	6
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	626	330.97/cwt	328.00–332.50	2,072	15
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 2	642	315.66/cwt	315.00–318.00	2,027	9
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	662	327.40/cwt	326.00–328.00	2,167	10
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	682	337.75/cwt	326.00–353.00	2,303	28
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	750	318.00/cwt	318.00–318.00	2,385	5
Feeder Cattle · Bulls6 lots · lightest first
Bulls	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	330	510.00/cwt	510.00–510.00	1,683	4
Bulls	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	422	429.57/cwt	410.00–472.50	1,813	6
Bulls	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	481	384.14/cwt	374.00–408.00	1,848	8
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	530	364.02/cwt	362.00–366.00	1,929	4
Bulls	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	573	345.46/cwt	332.00–362.00	1,979	8
Bulls	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	678	314.73/cwt	299.00–340.00	2,134	5
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls3 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,845	213.05/cwt	212.00–214.00	3,931	2
Bulls	—	—	1,865	198.86/cwt	190.00–209.00	3,709	2
Bulls	—	—	1,980	180.00/cwt	180.00–180.00	3,564	1
Slaughter Cattle · Cows6 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,014	131.08/cwt	119.00–139.00	1,329	4
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,036	147.69/cwt	142.00–156.00	1,530	7
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,263	161.32/cwt	154.50–165.50	2,037	3
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,388	168.12/cwt	166.50–171.50	2,334	3
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,463	168.29/cwt	166.00–169.00	2,462	4
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,464	162.79/cwt	158.50–165.00	2,383	6
Replacement Cattle · Bred Cows1 lot · lightest first
Bred Cows	—	Medium and Large 1-2	1,285	2,747.96/head	2,575.00–2,925.00	2,748	2

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 →

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna, MO

Wed Aug 6, 2025

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 993Last week 380Year ago 0

Slaughter CattleReceipts 42Last week 14Year ago 0

Replacement CattleReceipts 10Last week 10Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	250–300	273	425.00	425.00
6	300–350	317	412.00–436.00	422.95
9	350–400	375	415.00–434.00	424.21
14	400–450	438	401.00–421.00	411.14
24	450–500	472	370.00–409.00	394.49
30	500–550	516	381.00–401.00	387.18
7	550–600	564	364.50–370.00	367.65
33	600–650	600	358.75	358.75
10	650–700	662	326.00–328.00	327.40

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	397	423.00–434.00	431.01
14	400–450	417	420.00–434.00	427.08
25	450–500	479	394.00–414.00	402.09
20	500–550	534	378.00–410.00	389.63
47	550–600	579	353.00–380.00	365.05
6	600–650	603	352.00–357.00	355.33
28	650–700	682	326.00–353.00	337.75
5	750–800	750	318.00	318.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
13	500–550	510	423.00–427.00	425.45
27	550–600	579	385.00–386.00	385.33

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	550–600	560	326.00	326.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
15	600–650	626	328.00–332.50	330.97

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	600–650	642	315.00–318.00	315.66

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
3	550–600	578	334.00	334.00
4	650–700	655	349.00	349.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	250–300	288	450.00	450.00
6	300–350	334	462.50–510.00	488.09
8	350–400	377	455.00–504.00	482.99
3	400–450	430	479.00	479.00
18	450–500	481	410.00–448.00	438.22
9	500–550	525	390.00–412.00	402.26
17	550–600	556	389.50–404.00	399.65
13	600–650	637	378.50–380.50	379.58
4	700–750	718	348.50	348.50
10	750–800	760	338.50–339.50	338.80

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	250–300	266	545.00–601.00	592.05
4	350–400	359	520.00–540.00	530.43
9	400–450	435	494.00–507.50	500.45
40	450–500	482	444.00–478.00	462.76
47	500–550	525	414.00–452.00	435.57
45	550–600	580	395.00–422.00	410.00
37	600–650	615	394.00–420.50	408.34
128	650–700	673	370.00–388.00	380.21
21	700–750	719	346.00–373.00	367.93

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	550–600	561	389.00	389.00
8	600–650	621	365.00–375.50	372.80
15	700–750	707	339.00	339.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium 1$ per cwt · actual wt
3	450–500	493	350.00	350.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	300–350	330	510.00	510.00
6	400–450	422	410.00–472.50	429.57
8	450–500	481	374.00–408.00	384.14
4	500–550	530	362.00–366.00	364.02
8	550–600	573	332.00–362.00	345.46
5	650–700	678	299.00–340.00	314.73

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	1,980	180.00	180.00
2	—	1,845	212.00–214.00	213.05
2	—	1,865	190.00–209.00	198.86

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,014	119.00–139.00	131.08
7	—	1,036	142.00–156.00	147.69

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,388	166.50–171.50	168.12
3	—	1,263	154.50–165.50	161.32

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,463	166.00–169.00	168.29
6	—	1,464	158.50–165.00	162.79

Replacement Cattle

As reported

Age	Stage	Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bred Cows — Medium and Large 1-2$ per head · actual wt
Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)	3rd Stage (7-9 mo)	2	—	1,285	2,575.00–2,925.00	2,747.96

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.