Sale reports / North Dakota / Stockmen's Livestock Exchange / 2021-10-28

Stockmen's Livestock Exchange

Feeder Cattle · Dickinson, North Dakota · Thu, Oct 28
● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2099
Receipts
4,355 head
▲ 438 vs last sale 3,917▲ 297 vs year ago 4,058 · +7.3%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week; Feeder steers 400-450 & 500-550 lbs 7.00 lower; 450-500 & 650-700 lbs steady - 1.00 higher; 550-600 lbs 3.00 higher; 600-650 lbs 6.00 higher. Feeder heifers 350-400, 450-500 & 600-650 lbs 1.00-3.00 higher; 400-450 lbs 9.00 higher; 500-600 lbs 1.00-2.00 lower. Good to moderate demand seen for today's offering. Feeders where in moderate flesh with many good strings of feeder steers and heifers . Next sale is scheduled for November 4, 2020.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $173.21/cwt on 1,863 head.
Average price
$173.21
1,863 head · 574 lb average
Value per head Derived
$995
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$22
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$21.92/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.93
vs ND average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1570174.769951,732
Medium and Large 1-2637152.83974131
One grade step is worth $21.92/cwt here — about $22 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale1,863 hd
173.21
—
ND average3 barns · 5,002 hd
167.29
+5.93
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot

26 lots · USDA AMS · Stockmen's Livestock Exchange - Dickinson, ND
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 · Steers15 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1320177.00/cwt177.00–177.005667
Steers—Medium and Large 1369219.50/cwt219.50–219.5081013
Steers—Medium and Large 1432198.20/cwt180.00–204.75856107
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2465171.15/cwt170.00–172.507969
Steers—Medium and Large 1477188.41/cwt178.50–199.00899279
Steers—Medium and Large 1529177.11/cwt166.00–183.25937407
Steers—Medium and Large 1576167.18/cwt162.00–169.50963186
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2584145.00/cwt145.00–145.008476
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2617155.95/cwt155.50–156.5096267
Steers—Medium and Large 1623167.52/cwt160.50–177.001,044408
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2651151.50/cwt151.50–151.5098612
Steers—Medium and Large 1664164.02/cwt153.00–171.251,089210
Steers—Medium and Large 1717167.63/cwt162.00–171.001,20289
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2719144.44/cwt142.00–145.001,03937
Steers—Medium and Large 1779150.75/cwt150.75–150.751,17426
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1379163.27/cwt155.00–170.0061991
Heifers—Medium and Large 1428168.92/cwt158.00–172.0072384
Heifers—Medium and Large 1473158.64/cwt151.00–165.00750496
Heifers—Medium and Large 1531151.09/cwt145.50–157.50802280
Heifers—Medium and Large 1562147.72/cwt141.50–149.00830159
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement584157.00/cwt157.00–157.0091731
Heifers—Medium and Large 1624147.37/cwt142.00–153.75920362
Heifers—Medium and Large 1658141.65/cwt139.50–144.0093229
Heifers—Medium and Large 1832152.50/cwt152.50–152.501,26932
Heifers—Medium and Large 1890144.00/cwt144.00–144.001,28214
Heifers—Medium and Large 1984138.56/cwt138.00–139.001,3639

This sale against other markets

North Dakota weighted averages
One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every North Dakota auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.