Sale reports / South Dakota / Herreid Livestock Market / 2019-12-20

Herreid Livestock Market

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Dec 20
● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024
Receipts
3,515 head
▼ 800 vs last sale 4,315▲ 3,515 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steer calves 450 to 650 lbs 2.00 to 5.00 higher except 500 to 550 lbs not well compared. Heifer calves 450 to 500 lbs 8.00 to 10.00 higher, 501 to 600 lbs 3.00 to 4.00 higher, 601 to 650 lbs mostly steady. Yearling steers and heifers not well compared today. Good to very good demand for both yearlings and calves offered today. Just a couple strings of yearlings offered in mostly moderate to moderate plus flesh. Calves today almost all off the cow except for one weaned package. A handful of loads offered but mostly packages, in light to moderate flesh overall. Quality was very attractive. An active market with much interest in getting calves bought before the end of the calendar year. This is the last feeder cattle sale of 2019, the next feeder cattle sale is Friday, January 3, 2020.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $162.35/cwt on 1,510 head.
Average price
$162.35
1,510 head · 648 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,051
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$83
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$38.03/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+11.33
vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1646163.031,0531,459
Medium and Large 1-2670147.1798641
Medium and Large 2776125.0097010thin
One grade step is worth $38.03/cwt here — about $83 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale1,510 hd
162.35
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SD average6 barns · 10,927 hd
151.02
+11.33
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot

30 lots · USDA AMS · Herreid Livestock Market - Herreid, 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers17 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1376188.06/cwt183.50–192.5070751
Steers—Medium and Large 1418171.34/cwt170.00–172.5071611
Steers—Medium and Large 1491182.67/cwt176.00–186.50897234
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2521157.00/cwt157.00–157.008188
Steers—Medium and Large 1535172.28/cwt169.75–180.0092265
Steers—Medium and Large 1577168.30/cwt165.00–169.00971317
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2603152.00/cwt152.00–152.0091719
Steers—Medium and Large 1620161.99/cwt156.00–164.251,004230
Steers—Medium and Large 1671148.99/cwt147.50–150.501,000160
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy678142.50/cwt140.00–143.0096641
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2748135.00/cwt135.00–135.001,0106
Steers—Medium and Large 2776125.00/cwt125.00–125.0097010
Steers—Medium and Large 1831151.00/cwt151.00–151.001,255184
Steers—Medium and Large 1892144.75/cwt144.75–144.751,29138
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed920135.00/cwt135.00–135.001,2428
Steers—Medium and Large 1945148.00/cwt148.00–148.001,39965
Steers—Medium and Large 1955146.75/cwt146.75–146.751,40163
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2386156.50/cwt156.50–156.5060434
Heifers—Medium and Large 1469159.19/cwt153.50–166.50747192
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2478142.36/cwt137.00–145.0068020
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed502160.75/cwt160.75–160.7580767
Heifers—Medium and Large 1535147.25/cwt143.00–149.5078864
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2546125.00/cwt125.00–125.006837
Heifers—Medium and Large 1565144.02/cwt139.00–148.2581480
Heifers—Medium and Large 1619139.68/cwt137.00–143.00865207
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy648134.00/cwt134.00–134.008687
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed695137.00/cwt137.00–137.0095254
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy743129.00/cwt129.00–129.009588
Heifers—Medium and Large 1920146.25/cwt146.25–146.251,346444
Heifers—Large 11,020143.50/cwt143.50–143.501,46460

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.