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Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction

Name: Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-01-24
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-24

Feeder Cattle · Ft. Pierre, South Dakota · Fri, Jan 24

● Final22 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2021

← Jan 17Jan 24Jan 31 →

Receipts

2,532 head

▼ 2,932 vs last sale 5,464▼ 3,546 vs year ago 6,078 · −58.3%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Steers from 550 lbs to 749 lbs were steady to 4.00 higher, best test on heifers 500 lbs to 549 lbs and 600 lbs to 649 lbs were 10.00 to 15.00 higher on limited numbers, other weight classes not well compared. Very good demand for todays offering. Calves were long time weaned, home raised, fully vaccinated and clean haired. Flesh condition ranged from light fleshed hay fed cattle to moderate plus cattle coming out of a grow yard. Several consignments from reputation ranchers offered buyers multiple loads of one owner cattle. Best demand for the light fleshed black hided cattle suitable for summer grazing programs. Most of the usual crowd of order buyers, a few farmer feeders and internet buyers made for an active market. A few consignments of old crop yearlings with most being offered as packages. Milder weather the past couple days and into next week make for good cattle feeding conditions. Next feeder sale will be Friday, January 31, 2025.

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 $354.14/cwt on 280 head. That ranks 1 of 17 comparable sales and sits −134.25 against this barn's trailing median of $488.39.

Average price

$354.14

280 head · 576 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,040

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+1.19

vs SD average

+13.20 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	576	354.14	2,040	280

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 sale280 hd

354.14

—

SD average7 barns · 2,121 hd

352.95

+1.19

National average147 barns · 15,667 hd

340.94

+13.20

This barn, trailing median17 sales

488.39

−134.25

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

17 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $522.90, low $431.00, median $488.39 across 17 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

22 lots · USDA AMS · Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction (Friday) - Ft. Pierre, SD

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 1Unweaned	330	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,452	7
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	437	415.00/cwt	412.00–423.00	1,814	28
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	486	387.23/cwt	377.50–391.00	1,882	38
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	576	354.14/cwt	345.00–362.00	2,040	280
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	629	316.42/cwt	311.00–318.00	1,990	119
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	676	324.57/cwt	305.00–344.00	2,194	216
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Full	681	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,873	10
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	735	311.05/cwt	303.00–317.00	2,286	688
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	796	296.50/cwt	296.50–296.50	2,360	192
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	832	275.66/cwt	272.00–284.00	2,293	67
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	976	257.50/cwt	257.50–257.50	2,513	17
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1Unweaned	288	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,152	16
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	356	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,424	9
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Full	415	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	1,494	7
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	439	397.32/cwt	391.00–405.00	1,744	51
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	485	367.22/cwt	361.00–385.00	1,781	75
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	536	358.98/cwt	341.00–371.00	1,924	191
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	594	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	2,079	95
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	325.35/cwt	305.00–339.00	2,001	204
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	668	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,877	11
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	690	292.42/cwt	284.00–293.00	2,018	89
Heifers	1150–1200	Large 1	1,168	231.50/cwt	231.50–231.50	2,704	39

This sale against other markets

South Dakota weighted averages

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

South Dakota feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction (Friday) - Ft. Pierre, SD

Fri Jan 24, 2025

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Sioux Falls, SD (LS-SF)

Receipts 2,532Last week 5,464Year ago 6,078

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
9	350–400	356	400.00	400.00
51	400–450	439	391.00–405.00	397.32
75	450–500	485	361.00–385.00	367.22
191	500–550	536	341.00–371.00	358.98
95	550–600	594	350.00	350.00
204	600–650	615	305.00–339.00	325.35
89	650–700	690	284.00–293.00	292.42

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
7	400–450	415	360.00	360.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
39	1150–1200	1,168	231.50	231.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
11	650–700	668	281.00	281.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
16	250–300	288	400.00	400.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Unweaned$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	330	440.00	440.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
28	400–450	437	412.00–423.00	415.00
38	450–500	486	377.50–391.00	387.23
280	550–600	576	345.00–362.00	354.14
119	600–650	629	311.00–318.00	316.42
216	650–700	676	305.00–344.00	324.57
688	700–750	735	303.00–317.00	311.05
192	750–800	796	296.50	296.50
67	800–850	832	272.00–284.00	275.66
17	950–1000	976	257.50	257.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
10	650–700	681	275.00	275.00

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.