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Huss Livestock

Name: Huss Livestock livestock auction prices — 2024-12-30
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-12-30

Feeder Cattle · Kearney, Nebraska · Mon, Dec 30

● Final71 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1848

← Dec 18Dec 30Jan 8 →

Receipts

4,068 head

▼ 1,267 vs last sale 5,335▲ 993 vs year ago 3,075 · +32.3%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Nice offering of weaned and bawling spring calves on offer with some old crop yearlings selling in the mix. Compared to last sale steers over 600 lbs sold steady to 6.00 lower, heifers 500-700 lbs sold steady to 3.00 lower with heifers weighing over 700 lbs steady to 6.00 higher. Demand was moderate to good from the buyers in the crowd.

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 $328.70/cwt on 387 head. That ranks 1 of 20 comparable sales and sits −142.00 against this barn's trailing median of $470.70.

Average price

$328.70

387 head · 561 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,844

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$229

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

$12.11/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−5.68

vs NE average

−4.17 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	564	329.39	1,857	365
Medium and Large 1-2	513	317.28	1,628	22

One grade step is worth $12.11/cwt here — about $229 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 300–400 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 sale387 hd

328.70

—

NE average3 barns · 630 hd

334.37

−5.68

National average40 barns · 9,035 hd

332.87

−4.17

This barn, trailing median20 sales

470.70

−142.00

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 $508.27, low $419.84, median $470.70 across 20 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

71 lots · USDA AMS · Huss Livestock Market - Kearney, 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 · Steers34 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	382	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	1,385	7
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	383	414.00/cwt	414.00–414.00	1,586	10
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	395	339.99/cwt	335.00–346.00	1,343	11
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	415	340.17/cwt	335.00–344.00	1,412	14
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	417	356.00/cwt	356.00–356.00	1,485	7
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	470	356.31/cwt	347.00–359.00	1,675	32
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	491	328.00/cwt	328.00–328.00	1,610	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	492	333.89/cwt	326.00–335.00	1,643	47
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed	500	334.00/cwt	334.00–334.00	1,670	11
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	516	364.69/cwt	358.00–370.00	1,882	63
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	526	300.56/cwt	300.00–301.00	1,581	11
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	528	334.00/cwt	334.00–334.00	1,764	26
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	568	315.98/cwt	310.00–325.00	1,795	43
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	569	340.65/cwt	329.00–347.50	1,938	75
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	585	312.85/cwt	301.00–321.00	1,830	158
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	617	312.98/cwt	303.50–325.00	1,931	114
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	642	294.78/cwt	290.00–296.75	1,892	27
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	667	279.50/cwt	279.50–279.50	1,864	12
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	668	272.51/cwt	266.00–277.00	1,820	25
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	675	291.50/cwt	286.50–303.00	1,968	178
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	690	280.80/cwt	279.00–282.00	1,938	77
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	711	271.72/cwt	270.00–274.00	1,932	30
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	724	279.24/cwt	275.50–286.00	2,022	151
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	761	271.36/cwt	268.50–273.00	2,065	51
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	778	264.11/cwt	263.00–264.50	2,055	105
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed	808	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	2,262	114
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	824	258.00/cwt	258.00–258.00	2,126	6
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	831	266.24/cwt	263.50–268.00	2,212	128
Steers	800–850	Large 2	831	229.00/cwt	229.00–229.00	1,903	6
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	862	258.07/cwt	254.00–261.00	2,225	101
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	898	245.50/cwt	245.50–245.50	2,205	7
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	914	249.39/cwt	242.00–252.75	2,279	57
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	941	258.31/cwt	255.10–267.00	2,431	205
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	972	249.63/cwt	246.50–250.25	2,426	91
Feeder Cattle · Heifers32 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	301	342.00/cwt	342.00–342.00	1,029	8
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	374	367.12/cwt	366.00–368.00	1,373	14
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	385	327.50/cwt	327.50–327.50	1,261	8
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	412	334.36/cwt	332.00–336.00	1,378	27
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	415	316.00/cwt	316.00–316.00	1,311	7
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	443	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	1,484	20
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	443	293.00/cwt	293.00–293.00	1,298	11
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	458	311.37/cwt	301.00–325.00	1,426	43
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	460	302.00/cwt	302.00–302.00	1,389	17
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	463	285.31/cwt	280.00–288.00	1,321	18
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	522	278.79/cwt	274.00–285.00	1,455	67
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	523	309.08/cwt	302.00–315.00	1,616	109
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	529	296.00/cwt	296.00–296.00	1,566	8
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	535	270.35/cwt	270.00–271.00	1,446	45
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	577	283.41/cwt	280.00–287.50	1,635	58
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	578	296.33/cwt	288.00–303.00	1,713	126
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	579	254.58/cwt	254.00–255.00	1,474	34
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	589	268.23/cwt	264.00–272.00	1,580	30
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	607	285.48/cwt	283.00–287.00	1,733	86
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2Unweaned	616	253.00/cwt	253.00–253.00	1,558	16
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	668	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,677	6
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	675	271.00/cwt	266.00–274.00	1,829	206
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	675	261.72/cwt	259.00–264.00	1,767	99
Heifers	700–750	Large 2	710	230.00/cwt	230.00–230.00	1,633	6
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	719	259.42/cwt	253.00–263.50	1,865	169
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Replacement	759	283.50/cwt	283.50–283.50	2,152	51
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	780	259.08/cwt	255.50–260.75	2,021	203
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	818	251.79/cwt	244.00–255.50	2,060	163
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	831	237.26/cwt	237.00–238.00	1,972	19
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	872	242.60/cwt	241.00–243.00	2,115	29
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	907	244.75/cwt	244.75–244.75	2,220	13
Heifers	1000–1050	Medium and Large 1	1,022	219.00/cwt	219.00–219.00	2,238	8
Feeder Cattle · Bulls5 lots · lightest first
Bulls	400–450	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	416	368.00/cwt	368.00–368.00	1,531	4
Bulls	500–550	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	547	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	1,707	28
Bulls	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	622	256.00/cwt	256.00–256.00	1,592	9
Bulls	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	659	254.00/cwt	254.00–254.00	1,674	9
Bulls	800–850	Medium and Large 1-2	806	234.00/cwt	234.00–234.00	1,886	15

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 →

Huss Livestock Market - Kearney, NE

Mon Dec 30, 2024

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

Receipts 4,068Last week 5,335Year ago 3,075

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
7	350–400	382	362.50	362.50
7	400–450	417	356.00	356.00
6	450–500	491	328.00	328.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
43	550–600	568	310.00–325.00	315.98
12	650–700	667	279.50	279.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	350–400	383	414.00	414.00
32	450–500	470	347.00–359.00	356.31
63	500–550	516	358.00–370.00	364.69
75	550–600	569	329.00–347.50	340.65
114	600–650	617	303.50–325.00	312.98
178	650–700	675	286.50–303.00	291.50
151	700–750	724	275.50–286.00	279.24
51	750–800	761	268.50–273.00	271.36
128	800–850	831	263.50–268.00	266.24
101	850–900	862	254.00–261.00	258.07
205	900–950	941	255.10–267.00	258.31
91	950–1000	972	246.50–250.25	249.63

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	395	335.00–346.00	339.99
14	400–450	415	335.00–344.00	340.17
47	450–500	492	326.00–335.00	333.89
25	650–700	668	266.00–277.00	272.51

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	500	334.00	334.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
114	800–850	808	280.00	280.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
26	500–550	528	334.00	334.00
158	550–600	585	301.00–321.00	312.85
27	600–650	642	290.00–296.75	294.78
77	650–700	690	279.00–282.00	280.80
30	700–750	711	270.00–274.00	271.72
105	750–800	778	263.00–264.50	264.11
6	800–850	824	258.00	258.00
7	850–900	898	245.50	245.50
57	900–950	914	242.00–252.75	249.39

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	800–850	831	229.00	229.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
11	500–550	526	300.00–301.00	300.56

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
4	400–450	416	368.00	368.00
28	500–550	547	312.00	312.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	600–650	622	256.00	256.00
9	650–700	659	254.00	254.00
15	800–850	806	234.00	234.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
20	400–450	443	335.00	335.00
43	450–500	458	301.00–325.00	311.37
8	500–550	529	296.00	296.00
58	550–600	577	280.00–287.50	283.41
99	650–700	675	259.00–264.00	261.72
19	800–850	831	237.00–238.00	237.26

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
11	400–450	443	293.00	293.00
67	500–550	522	274.00–285.00	278.79
16	600–650	616	253.00	253.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	700–750	710	230.00	230.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
34	550–600	579	254.00–255.00	254.58

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
14	350–400	374	366.00–368.00	367.12
109	500–550	523	302.00–315.00	309.08
126	550–600	578	288.00–303.00	296.33
86	600–650	607	283.00–287.00	285.48
206	650–700	675	266.00–274.00	271.00
169	700–750	719	253.00–263.50	259.42
203	750–800	780	255.50–260.75	259.08
163	800–850	818	244.00–255.50	251.79
29	850–900	872	241.00–243.00	242.60
13	900–950	907	244.75	244.75
8	1000–1050	1,022	219.00	219.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	300–350	301	342.00	342.00
8	350–400	385	327.50	327.50
7	400–450	415	316.00	316.00
18	450–500	463	280.00–288.00	285.31
45	500–550	535	270.00–271.00	270.35
30	550–600	589	264.00–272.00	268.23
6	650–700	668	251.00	251.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
51	750–800	759	283.50	283.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
27	400–450	412	332.00–336.00	334.36
17	450–500	460	302.00	302.00

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.