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Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction

Name: Ft. Pierre Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-10-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-10

Feeder Cattle · Ft. Pierre, South Dakota · Fri, Oct 10

● Final44 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2021

← Oct 3Oct 10Oct 17 →

Receipts

5,435 head

▲ 1,250 vs last sale 4,185▼ 598 vs year ago 6,033 · −9.9%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Yearling steers not well compared, yearling heifers from 850 lbs to 899 lbs were 6.00 to 8.00 higher. Best test on steer calves from 400 lbs to 599 lbs were 10.00 to 15.00 higher, instances of 30.00 higher on full loads of fully preconditioned steer calves, best test on heifers calves 500 lbs to 549 lbs were generally 20.00 to 30.00 higher. Other weight classes steady - higher on limited comparisons. Good to very good demand on todays offering of yearlings. Several strings along with part loads and packages of tested open heifers made up todays yearling offering. An active market for todays sale with best demand for full loads or multiple loads up to 8 loads offered in the same sort. Most of the yearlings were off grass and in light to moderate flesh condition. Majority of the calves were off the cow and fully preconditioned. Calves were light fleshed and attractive for quality. Best demand for the full loads that had at least two rounds of shots. More interest in the calves offering when compared to last weeks sale. Mostly order buyers competing with internet buyers, and a few farmer feeders also in attendance. Next feeder sale is scheduled for Friday, October 17th, expecting a large run of yearlings and calves fresh off the cow.

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 $497.76/cwt on 1,446 head. That ranks 10 of 17 comparable sales and sits +9.37 against this barn's trailing median of $488.39.

Average price

$497.76

1,446 head · 548 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,728

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$374

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

$57.51/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+6.61

vs SD average

+51.91 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	548	498.19	2,731	1,435
Medium and Large 1-2	535	440.68	2,357	11thin

One grade step is worth $57.51/cwt here — about $374 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 sale1,446 hd

497.76

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SD average6 barns · 3,931 hd

491.14

+6.61

National average181 barns · 23,254 hd

445.85

+51.91

This barn, trailing median17 sales

488.39

+9.37

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

44 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 · Steers20 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	340	675.00/cwt	675.00–675.00	2,295	38
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	399	585.00/cwt	585.00–585.00	2,334	14
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	401	520.00/cwt	520.00–520.00	2,085	14
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	429	582.80/cwt	557.50–600.00	2,500	342
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	479	546.96/cwt	525.00–570.00	2,620	370
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Full	486	510.10/cwt	505.00–517.50	2,479	30
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	493	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,342	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fancy	500	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	2,700	102
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	508	472.50/cwt	472.50–472.50	2,400	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	530	502.48/cwt	478.00–525.00	2,663	685
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	567	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	2,282	5
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	574	488.36/cwt	471.00–501.00	2,803	627
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Full	599	449.00/cwt	449.00–449.00	2,690	21
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	637	438.00/cwt	438.00–438.00	2,790	22
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	662	439.73/cwt	397.50–449.00	2,911	77
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	786	380.75/cwt	370.00–395.00	2,993	112
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	833	369.84/cwt	356.00–378.00	3,081	107
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	871	353.00/cwt	353.00–353.00	3,075	58
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	924	366.33/cwt	363.00–368.00	3,385	174
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,059	301.00/cwt	301.00–301.00	3,188	7
Feeder Cattle · Heifers20 lots · lightest first
Heifers	250–300	Medium and Large 1-2	269	650.00/cwt	650.00–650.00	1,749	13
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	334	595.05/cwt	567.50–630.00	1,987	50
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	344	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,514	20
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	384	538.77/cwt	527.50–560.00	2,069	143
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	433	512.44/cwt	505.00–527.50	2,219	373
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	446	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	1,873	6
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	465	484.33/cwt	472.50–505.00	2,252	196
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	483	449.00/cwt	449.00–449.00	2,169	45
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	522	472.45/cwt	440.00–497.50	2,466	384
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	528	417.22/cwt	410.00–422.00	2,203	31
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	568	434.30/cwt	427.00–447.50	2,467	71
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	604	408.00/cwt	408.00–408.00	2,464	30
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	705	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	2,644	38
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	738	341.00/cwt	341.00–341.00	2,517	9
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1Spayed	847	338.00/cwt	338.00–338.00	2,863	61
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	876	347.86/cwt	344.00–350.50	3,047	107
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	942	338.49/cwt	338.00–339.50	3,189	171
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1Spayed	986	333.40/cwt	330.50–336.25	3,287	479
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,020	308.31/cwt	306.00–310.00	3,145	17
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,066	303.00/cwt	303.00–303.00	3,230	30
Feeder Cattle · Bulls4 lots · lightest first
Bulls	250–300	Medium and Large 1	257	695.00/cwt	695.00–695.00	1,786	17
Bulls	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	369	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,771	38
Bulls	350–400	Medium and Large 1	388	587.00/cwt	587.00–587.00	2,278	56
Bulls	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	418	515.00/cwt	515.00–515.00	2,153	8

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 Oct 10, 2025

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

Receipts 5,435Last week 4,185Year ago 6,033

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	1000–1050	1,020	306.00–310.00	308.31
30	1050–1100	1,066	303.00	303.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
50	300–350	334	567.50–630.00	595.05
143	350–400	384	527.50–560.00	538.77
373	400–450	433	505.00–527.50	512.44
196	450–500	465	472.50–505.00	484.33
384	500–550	522	440.00–497.50	472.45
71	550–600	568	427.00–447.50	434.30
30	600–650	604	408.00	408.00
38	700–750	705	375.00	375.00
107	850–900	876	344.00–350.50	347.86
171	900–950	942	338.00–339.50	338.49

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Spayed$ per cwt · actual wt
61	800–850	847	338.00	338.00
479	950–1000	986	330.50–336.25	333.40

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	250–300	269	650.00	650.00
20	300–350	344	440.00	440.00
6	400–450	446	420.00	420.00
45	450–500	483	449.00	449.00
31	500–550	528	410.00–422.00	417.22
9	700–750	738	341.00	341.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	1050–1100	1,059	301.00	301.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
102	500–550	500	540.00	540.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
30	450–500	486	505.00–517.50	510.10
21	550–600	599	449.00	449.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
38	300–350	340	675.00	675.00
14	350–400	399	585.00	585.00
342	400–450	429	557.50–600.00	582.80
370	450–500	479	525.00–570.00	546.96
685	500–550	530	478.00–525.00	502.48
627	550–600	574	471.00–501.00	488.36
22	600–650	637	438.00	438.00
77	650–700	662	397.50–449.00	439.73
112	750–800	786	370.00–395.00	380.75
107	800–850	833	356.00–378.00	369.84
58	850–900	871	353.00	353.00
174	900–950	924	363.00–368.00	366.33

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	400–450	401	520.00	520.00
6	450–500	493	475.00	475.00
6	500–550	508	472.50	472.50
5	550–600	567	402.50	402.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	250–300	257	695.00	695.00
56	350–400	388	587.00	587.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
38	350–400	369	480.00	480.00
8	400–450	418	515.00	515.00

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.