Sale reports / Nebraska / Crawford / 2025-09-26

Crawford

Name: Crawford livestock auction prices — 2025-09-26
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-09-26

Feeder Cattle · Crawford, Nebraska · Fri, Sep 26

● Final24 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1857

← Sep 12Sep 26Oct 3 →

Receipts

1,022 head

▲ 214 vs last sale 808▲ 1,022 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A few lot loads of yearling steers, rest of sale made up of packages. Sale made up of open heifers, few spayed heifers, fall calves, and a few unweaned spring calves. Prices on the mixed side compared to two weeks ago. Demand moderate to good.

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 $450.62/cwt on 28 head. That ranks 2 of 13 comparable sales and sits −15.23 against this barn's trailing median of $465.84.

Average price

$450.62

28 head · 555 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,500

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$193

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

$43.36/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−18.36

vs NE average

+33.53 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	553	458.36	2,534	23
Medium and Large 1-2	564	415.00	2,341	5thin

One grade step is worth $43.36/cwt here — about $193 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 sale28 hd

450.62

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NE average7 barns · 881 hd

468.98

−18.36

National average168 barns · 11,658 hd

417.09

+33.53

This barn, trailing median13 sales

465.84

−15.23

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

13 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $507.50, low $427.00, median $465.84 across 13 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

24 lots · USDA AMS · Crawford Livestock Market - Crawford, NE

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 · Steers11 lots · lightest first
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	458	501.00/cwt	501.00–501.00	2,295	5
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	538	460.94/cwt	455.00–468.00	2,480	13
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	564	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	2,341	5
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	572	455.00/cwt	455.00–455.00	2,603	10
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	604	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	2,325	8
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	632	422.82/cwt	397.50–429.00	2,672	63
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	687	411.78/cwt	409.00–412.50	2,829	97
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	728	385.57/cwt	377.00–393.00	2,807	41
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	763	383.81/cwt	364.00–388.50	2,928	178
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	803	359.00/cwt	359.00–359.00	2,883	14
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	883	345.41/cwt	343.00–347.50	3,050	52
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	488	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	1,928	15
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	520	410.00/cwt	410.00–410.00	2,132	5
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	642	379.03/cwt	373.00–385.00	2,433	32
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	653	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	1,992	5
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	714	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,392	5
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Spayed	755	342.50/cwt	342.50–342.50	2,586	11
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	780	341.78/cwt	335.00–344.00	2,666	81
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	834	327.13/cwt	319.50–334.50	2,728	12
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	870	331.68/cwt	327.00–333.00	2,886	98
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	911	326.50/cwt	326.50–326.50	2,974	11
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	972	322.29/cwt	320.00–323.00	3,133	40
Heifers	1000–1050	Medium and Large 1	1,024	317.13/cwt	308.00–326.00	3,247	29
Heifers	1050–1100	Medium and Large 1	1,055	304.00/cwt	304.00–304.00	3,207	9

This sale against other markets

Nebraska weighted averages

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

Nebraska feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Crawford Livestock Market - Crawford, NE

Fri Sep 26, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Kearney, NE (LS-WH)

Receipts 1,022Last week 808Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	500–550	520	410.00	410.00
32	600–650	642	373.00–385.00	379.03
5	700–750	714	335.00	335.00
81	750–800	780	335.00–344.00	341.78
12	800–850	834	319.50–334.50	327.13
98	850–900	870	327.00–333.00	331.68
11	900–950	911	326.50	326.50
40	950–1000	972	320.00–323.00	322.29
29	1000–1050	1,024	308.00–326.00	317.13
9	1050–1100	1,055	304.00	304.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	750–800	755	342.50	342.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	450–500	488	395.00	395.00
5	650–700	653	305.00	305.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	458	501.00	501.00
13	500–550	538	455.00–468.00	460.94
10	550–600	572	455.00	455.00
63	600–650	632	397.50–429.00	422.82
97	650–700	687	409.00–412.50	411.78
41	700–750	728	377.00–393.00	385.57
178	750–800	763	364.00–388.50	383.81
14	800–850	803	359.00	359.00
52	850–900	883	343.00–347.50	345.41

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	564	415.00	415.00
8	600–650	604	385.00	385.00

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.