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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-01-31
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-01-31

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Jan 31

● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Jan 24Jan 31Feb 7 →

Receipts

3,446 head

▲ 1,423 vs last sale 2,023▼ 589 vs year ago 4,035 · −14.6%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 650 to 749 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 6.00 higher on 650 to 699 lbs. Heifers not well compared. Very good demand for this very attractive offering of many packages, loads and several multiple loads of both home raised and backgrounded cattle. Cattle were clean hided and open haired and in mostly moderate to moderate plus flesh. An active market with buyers and farmer feeders competing for cattle. Quite a few multiple load offerings went to the same buyer to fill pens. Dry and mild conditions again this week with no snow. Next week looks colder but still nice for February, this has been an easy winter for feeders and producers. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, February 7.

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 $363.76/cwt on 177 head. That ranks 1 of 10 comparable sales and sits −122.89 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$363.76

177 head · 559 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,034

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$229

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

$33.48/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.53

vs SD average

+15.10 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	561	369.44	2,074	147
Medium and Large 1-2	549	335.96	1,845	30

One grade step is worth $33.48/cwt here — about $229 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 sale177 hd

363.76

—

SD average6 barns · 2,091 hd

364.29

−0.53

National average177 barns · 23,098 hd

348.66

+15.10

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

−122.89

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

10 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $519.08, low $443.74, median $486.66 across 10 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers13 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	336	440.00/cwt	440.00–440.00	1,478	4
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	427	413.15/cwt	410.00–420.00	1,764	12
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	480	376.70/cwt	367.50–382.00	1,808	37
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	370.14/cwt	359.00–380.00	1,943	38
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	532	331.01/cwt	325.00–339.00	1,761	14
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	564	340.29/cwt	321.00–349.00	1,919	16
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	574	369.19/cwt	355.00–380.50	2,119	109
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	623	344.12/cwt	323.00–350.00	2,144	621
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	685	315.11/cwt	306.00–328.50	2,159	452
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	725	308.47/cwt	292.00–312.25	2,236	284
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	782	300.11/cwt	296.25–310.00	2,347	212
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	808	300.24/cwt	291.50–302.50	2,426	144
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	865	284.72/cwt	283.75–285.75	2,463	136
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	417	397.32/cwt	379.00–408.00	1,657	35
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	468	364.11/cwt	357.00–370.00	1,704	18
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	475	335.97/cwt	334.00–337.50	1,596	14
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	527	316.00/cwt	316.00–316.00	1,665	14
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	537	334.72/cwt	321.00–343.00	1,797	100
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	592	295.12/cwt	292.00–307.00	1,747	78
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	614	309.40/cwt	297.00–314.50	1,900	220
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	636	281.82/cwt	273.00–288.00	1,792	38
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	667	302.35/cwt	289.50–305.75	2,017	275
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Replacement	732	297.74/cwt	296.00–298.00	2,179	90
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	746	285.50/cwt	285.50–285.50	2,130	77
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	755	274.00/cwt	274.00–274.00	2,069	28
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Replacement	758	294.00/cwt	294.00–294.00	2,229	36
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	859	241.52/cwt	240.00–244.00	2,075	24
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	909	237.00/cwt	237.00–237.00	2,154	9
Feeder Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls	350–400	Medium and Large 1	359	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	1,705	11
Bulls	400–450	Medium and Large 1	449	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	1,818	38

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 →

Herreid Livestock Market - Herreid, SD

Fri Jan 31, 2025

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

Receipts 3,446Last week 2,023Year ago 4,035

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	359	475.00	475.00
38	400–450	449	405.00	405.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
35	400–450	417	379.00–408.00	397.32
18	450–500	468	357.00–370.00	364.11
100	500–550	537	321.00–343.00	334.72
78	550–600	592	292.00–307.00	295.12
220	600–650	614	297.00–314.50	309.40
275	650–700	667	289.50–305.75	302.35
77	700–750	746	285.50	285.50
28	750–800	755	274.00	274.00
24	850–900	859	240.00–244.00	241.52
9	900–950	909	237.00	237.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	450–500	475	334.00–337.50	335.97
14	500–550	527	316.00	316.00
38	600–650	636	273.00–288.00	281.82

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
90	700–750	732	296.00–298.00	297.74
36	750–800	758	294.00	294.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	300–350	336	440.00	440.00
12	400–450	427	410.00–420.00	413.15
37	450–500	480	367.50–382.00	376.70
38	500–550	525	359.00–380.00	370.14
109	550–600	574	355.00–380.50	369.19
621	600–650	623	323.00–350.00	344.12
452	650–700	685	306.00–328.50	315.11
284	700–750	725	292.00–312.25	308.47
212	750–800	782	296.25–310.00	300.11
144	800–850	808	291.50–302.50	300.24
136	850–900	865	283.75–285.75	284.72

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
14	500–550	532	325.00–339.00	331.01
16	550–600	564	321.00–349.00	340.29

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.