Sale reports / Nebraska / Imperial / 2025-01-28

Imperial

Name: Imperial livestock auction prices — 2025-01-28
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-28

Feeder Cattle · Imperial, Nebraska · Tue, Jan 28

● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1854

← Jan 21Jan 28Feb 25 →

Receipts

1,429 head

▲ 818 vs last sale 611▼ 758 vs year ago 2,187 · −34.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week light test of the market, steers and heifers sold with a sharply higher undertone. With good to very good demand especially for breeding type heifers.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $342.46/cwt on 45 head. That ranks 1 of 8 comparable sales and sits −88.49 against this barn's trailing median of $430.95.

Average price

$342.46

45 head · 510 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,747

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+14.44

vs NE average

+37.82 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	510	342.46	1,747	45

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale45 hd

342.46

—

NE average8 barns · 2,234 hd

328.02

+14.44

National average182 barns · 24,858 hd

304.64

+37.82

This barn, trailing median8 sales

430.95

−88.49

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

8 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $470.19, low $382.75, median $430.95 across 8 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

23 lots · USDA AMS · Imperial Auction Market - Imperial, 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	300–350	Medium and Large 1	327	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,570	30
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	360	436.00/cwt	436.00–436.00	1,570	5
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	435	416.00/cwt	416.00–416.00	1,810	53
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	495	395.40/cwt	390.00–403.00	1,957	50
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	518	387.50/cwt	387.50–387.50	2,007	28
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	581	348.00/cwt	348.00–348.00	2,022	5
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	609	336.64/cwt	336.00–337.50	2,050	24
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	688	315.00/cwt	315.00–315.00	2,167	98
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	752	299.00/cwt	299.00–299.00	2,248	52
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	820	285.25/cwt	285.25–285.25	2,339	65
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	971	258.00/cwt	258.00–258.00	2,505	65
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	316	426.00/cwt	426.00–426.00	1,346	28
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	388	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	1,494	7
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	435	384.65/cwt	384.00–386.00	1,673	65
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	486	355.00/cwt	355.00–355.00	1,725	21
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	510	342.46/cwt	332.00–348.00	1,747	45
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Replacement	574	2,175.00/head	2,175.00–2,175.00	2,175	82
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Replacement	611	2,050.00/head	2,050.00–2,050.00	2,050	35
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	622	303.10/cwt	283.00–306.00	1,885	94
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Replacement	664	2,269.28/head	2,250.00–2,275.00	2,269	360
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	685	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,911	53
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Replacement	700	2,280.00/head	2,280.00–2,280.00	2,280	100
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	767	259.00/cwt	259.00–259.00	1,987	31

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 →

Imperial Auction Market - Imperial, NE

Tue Jan 28, 2025

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

Receipts 1,429Last week 611Year ago 2,187

Compared to last week light test of the market, steers and heifers sold with a sharply higher undertone. With good to very good demand especially for breeding type heifers.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
30	300–350	327	480.00	480.00
5	350–400	360	436.00	436.00
53	400–450	435	416.00	416.00
50	450–500	495	390.00–403.00	395.40
28	500–550	518	387.50	387.50
5	550–600	581	348.00	348.00
24	600–650	609	336.00–337.50	336.64
98	650–700	688	315.00	315.00
52	750–800	752	299.00	299.00
65	800–850	820	285.25	285.25
65	950–1000	971	258.00	258.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per head · actual wt
82	550–600	574	2,175.00	2,175.00
35	600–650	611	2,050.00	2,050.00
360	650–700	664	2,250.00–2,275.00	2,269.28
100	700–750	700	2,280.00	2,280.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
28	300–350	316	426.00	426.00
7	350–400	388	385.00	385.00
65	400–450	435	384.00–386.00	384.65
21	450–500	486	355.00	355.00
45	500–550	510	332.00–348.00	342.46
94	600–650	622	283.00–306.00	303.10
53	650–700	685	279.00	279.00
31	750–800	767	259.00	259.00

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.