Sale reports / Nebraska / Huss Livestock / 2025-05-07

Huss Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Kearney, Nebraska · Wed, May 7
● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1848
Receipts
1,814 head
▼ 96 vs last sale 1,910▼ 199 vs year ago 2,013 · −9.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week steers and heifers sold unevenly steady on the best tested weights. Demand was good from the buyers in the crowd.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $383.05/cwt on 103 head. That ranks 1 of 20 comparable sales and sits −87.65 against this barn's trailing median of $470.70.
Average price
$383.05
103 head · 573 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,194
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$170
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2
$18.68/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−8.79
vs NE average
+4.26 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1576386.862,22982
Medium and Large 1-2559368.182,05921
One grade step is worth $18.68/cwt here — about $170 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 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 sale103 hd
383.05
—
NE average6 barns · 974 hd
391.84
−8.79
National average168 barns · 13,508 hd
378.79
+4.26
This barn, trailing median20 sales
470.70
−87.65
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
522483445406median 470.7003/0404/2207/0109/2310/28
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

33 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers18 lots · lightest first
Steers350–400Medium and Large 1398460.00/cwt460.00–460.001,8315
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1-2465387.50/cwt387.50–387.501,8026
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1476418.92/cwt416.00–425.001,99441
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1-2536381.08/cwt380.00–382.002,04311
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1567395.09/cwt388.00–402.002,24052
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1-2585354.00/cwt354.00–354.002,07110
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1Fleshy590373.39/cwt370.00–375.502,20318
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1Unweaned596371.42/cwt371.00–372.002,21412
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1-2632341.16/cwt330.00–351.002,15625
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1683337.65/cwt330.00–345.002,30667
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1Unweaned700312.00/cwt312.00–312.002,18412
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1716330.15/cwt326.00–337.002,364133
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1786313.06/cwt306.50–316.502,461120
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1-2793294.00/cwt294.00–294.002,3319
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1813310.94/cwt306.00–313.002,528117
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1Fleshy843290.00/cwt290.00–290.002,44512
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1882300.65/cwt293.00–302.352,652337
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1937285.91/cwt284.00–288.002,67940
Feeder Cattle · Heifers14 lots · lightest first
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1436385.05/cwt377.00–390.001,67916
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1469368.58/cwt359.00–379.001,72933
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1505365.00/cwt365.00–365.001,84316
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1Fleshy544343.46/cwt342.00–344.501,86812
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1573338.91/cwt337.00–340.001,94216
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1Unweaned573315.00/cwt315.00–315.001,80512
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1611319.35/cwt313.00–324.501,95120
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1Unweaned655288.00/cwt288.00–288.001,8869
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1669314.07/cwt313.00–315.002,10111
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1790287.68/cwt279.50–290.502,273182
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1802287.00/cwt287.00–287.002,30236
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1890271.50/cwt271.50–271.502,416168
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1935265.00/cwt265.00–265.002,47819
Heifers950–1000Medium and Large 1952259.50/cwt259.50–259.502,47043
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls550–600Medium and Large 1568376.00/cwt376.00–376.002,1367

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.