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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-02-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-07

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Feb 7

● Final27 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Jan 31Feb 7Feb 14 →

Receipts

3,165 head

▼ 281 vs last sale 3,446▲ 350 vs year ago 2,815 · +12.4%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 550 to 599 lbs, 650 to 699 lbs, and 750 to 799 lbs 8.00 to 10.00 lower. Best test on heifers 600 to 699 lbs mostly steady. Good to very good demand for today's offering of feeder cattle which included a string of old crop yearlings and many packages and loads of calves. There was one family ranch consignment which included multiple loads of same weight, home raised cattle which were met with excellent demand. Cattle were average to attractive in quality and in mostly moderate to moderate plus flesh. Not very many big, finishing type cattle on offer today and more grass and backgrounding types. Cattle still sell on an active market but buyers are more cautious this week. A band of snow has started to fall across this area and a winter storm advisory is in effect until Saturday, so far travel has not been impacted and cattle were moving without issues.

Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, February 14.

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 $363.22/cwt on 248 head. That ranks 1 of 10 comparable sales and sits −123.43 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$363.22

248 head · 560 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,035

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$303

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

$34.77/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+7.86

vs SD average

+20.84 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	562	364.77	2,049	237
Medium and Large 1-2	529	330.00	1,746	11thin

One grade step is worth $34.77/cwt here — about $303 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 sale248 hd

363.22

—

SD average4 barns · 1,062 hd

355.36

+7.86

National average187 barns · 18,766 hd

342.38

+20.84

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

−123.43

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

27 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 · Steers14 lots · lightest first
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	427	415.00/cwt	415.00–415.00	1,772	10
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	438	385.00/cwt	385.00–385.00	1,686	17
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	468	413.00/cwt	413.00–413.00	1,933	33
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	469	379.18/cwt	370.00–385.00	1,778	20
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	527	387.00/cwt	387.00–387.00	2,039	50
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	529	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,746	11
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	571	358.82/cwt	341.00–370.50	2,049	187
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	619	340.31/cwt	330.00–354.00	2,107	85
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	675	313.10/cwt	300.00–317.00	2,113	477
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	679	283.75/cwt	279.00–291.00	1,927	23
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	733	300.98/cwt	299.50–303.00	2,206	146
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	783	295.00/cwt	278.25–301.00	2,310	312
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	802	295.50/cwt	295.50–295.50	2,370	62
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,021	261.75/cwt	261.75–261.75	2,672	177
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	388	387.50/cwt	387.50–387.50	1,504	6
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	406	389.00/cwt	389.00–389.00	1,579	16
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	459	323.00/cwt	323.00–323.00	1,483	9
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	490	346.00/cwt	346.00–346.00	1,695	13
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	491	377.50/cwt	377.50–377.50	1,854	5
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	541	335.54/cwt	322.00–348.00	1,815	194
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	576	322.59/cwt	317.00–333.00	1,858	192
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	591	277.00/cwt	277.00–277.00	1,637	7
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	614	309.74/cwt	305.00–313.00	1,902	288
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	629	282.50/cwt	282.50–282.50	1,777	13
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	669	292.92/cwt	279.00–300.50	1,960	336
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	697	270.00/cwt	270.00–270.00	1,882	31
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	712	290.38/cwt	281.00–302.50	2,068	41

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 Feb 7, 2025

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

Receipts 3,165Last week 3,446Year ago 2,815

Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, February 14.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
13	450–500	490	346.00	346.00
31	650–700	697	270.00	270.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	450–500	459	323.00	323.00
7	550–600	591	277.00	277.00
13	600–650	629	282.50	282.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	350–400	388	387.50	387.50
16	400–450	406	389.00	389.00
5	450–500	491	377.50	377.50
194	500–550	541	322.00–348.00	335.54
192	550–600	576	317.00–333.00	322.59
288	600–650	614	305.00–313.00	309.74
336	650–700	669	279.00–300.50	292.92
41	700–750	712	281.00–302.50	290.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
17	400–450	438	385.00	385.00
20	450–500	469	370.00–385.00	379.18
11	500–550	529	330.00	330.00
23	650–700	679	279.00–291.00	283.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	400–450	427	415.00	415.00
33	450–500	468	413.00	413.00
50	500–550	527	387.00	387.00
187	550–600	571	341.00–370.50	358.82
85	600–650	619	330.00–354.00	340.31
477	650–700	675	300.00–317.00	313.10
146	700–750	733	299.50–303.00	300.98
312	750–800	783	278.25–301.00	295.00
62	800–850	802	295.50	295.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
177	1000–1050	1,021	261.75	261.75

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.