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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-10-17
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-17

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Oct 17

● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Oct 10Oct 17Oct 24 →

Receipts

3,270 head

▲ 944 vs last sale 2,326▼ 2,094 vs year ago 5,364 · −39.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: yearling steers not well compared, best test on yearling heifers 7.00 to 9.00 higher on a narrow comparison. Very good demand for yearlings, both out of yards and off grass. Flesh varied quite a bit, even on grass cattle, from moderate to some heavy flesh at times. Yearling sold in loads and strings with opportunities to buy multiple loads to fill pens which buyers did at times. This was the first spring calf offering, calves met with good to very good demand. Just a light offering of calves, all off the cow, with quite a few loads for such a limited offering. Flesh varied with some calves in light flesh to some that had seen quite a bit of creep feed in moderate plus. Preconditioning varied, but most calves had at least one complete round of shots. An active market on both yearlings and calves with the normal crowd of buyers and a few farmer feeders in the seats determined to own cattle despite a day of large losses on the feeder complex. This was finally a sunny day and many were able to get back in the field to start harvesting again. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, October 24.

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 $497.58/cwt on 182 head. That ranks 8 of 10 comparable sales and sits +10.92 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$497.58

182 head · 536 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,669

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$103

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

$24.61/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−8.24

vs SD average

+28.54 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	536	499.61	2,677	167
Medium and Large 1-2	542	475.00	2,575	15thin

One grade step is worth $24.61/cwt here — about $103 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 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 sale182 hd

497.58

—

SD average6 barns · 6,972 hd

505.82

−8.24

National average176 barns · 29,227 hd

469.04

+28.54

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

+10.92

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

31 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 · Steers19 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	333	642.50/cwt	642.50–642.50	2,140	4
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	415	558.87/cwt	540.00–561.00	2,319	41
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	488	478.83/cwt	460.00–500.00	2,337	25
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	527	506.87/cwt	480.00–514.00	2,671	140
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	542	475.00/cwt	475.00–475.00	2,575	15
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	582	461.94/cwt	456.00–465.00	2,688	27
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	600	426.00/cwt	426.00–426.00	2,556	25
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	633	471.34/cwt	457.50–481.50	2,984	300
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	679	435.50/cwt	435.50–435.50	2,957	88
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	720	390.94/cwt	388.00–398.00	2,815	14
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	790	386.75/cwt	386.75–386.75	3,055	80
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	821	384.00/cwt	384.00–384.00	3,153	68
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	891	370.20/cwt	370.00–370.25	3,298	161
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	938	367.21/cwt	350.75–372.25	3,444	392
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	970	356.62/cwt	350.75–362.25	3,459	234
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,034	344.05/cwt	343.25–344.75	3,557	270
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,068	328.66/cwt	323.50–336.00	3,510	167
Steers	1150–1200	Large 1	1,174	306.00/cwt	306.00–306.00	3,592	50
Steers	1250–1300	Large 1	1,283	298.75/cwt	298.75–298.75	3,833	47
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	335	624.00/cwt	624.00–624.00	2,090	12
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	385	540.00/cwt	540.00–540.00	2,079	3
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	440	511.00/cwt	511.00–511.00	2,248	47
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	491	455.05/cwt	442.50–464.00	2,234	17
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	524	455.83/cwt	435.00–465.00	2,389	78
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	585	409.56/cwt	385.00–416.00	2,396	158
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	647	388.00/cwt	388.00–388.00	2,510	91
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	744	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	2,697	82
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	847	344.00/cwt	344.00–344.00	2,914	8
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	887	360.72/cwt	341.00–363.50	3,200	55
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	921	340.09/cwt	330.50–355.50	3,132	201
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	962	342.00/cwt	342.00–342.00	3,290	25

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 Oct 17, 2025

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

Receipts 3,270Last week 2,326Year ago 5,364

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
270	1000–1050	1,034	343.25–344.75	344.05
167	1050–1100	1,068	323.50–336.00	328.66
50	1150–1200	1,174	306.00	306.00
47	1250–1300	1,283	298.75	298.75

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	300–350	333	642.50	642.50
41	400–450	415	540.00–561.00	558.87
25	450–500	488	460.00–500.00	478.83
140	500–550	527	480.00–514.00	506.87
27	550–600	582	456.00–465.00	461.94
300	600–650	633	457.50–481.50	471.34
88	650–700	679	435.50	435.50
14	700–750	720	388.00–398.00	390.94
80	750–800	790	386.75	386.75
68	800–850	821	384.00	384.00
161	850–900	891	370.00–370.25	370.20
392	900–950	938	350.75–372.25	367.21
234	950–1000	970	350.75–362.25	356.62

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	500–550	542	475.00	475.00
25	600–650	600	426.00	426.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
12	300–350	335	624.00	624.00
3	350–400	385	540.00	540.00
47	400–450	440	511.00	511.00
17	450–500	491	442.50–464.00	455.05
78	500–550	524	435.00–465.00	455.83
158	550–600	585	385.00–416.00	409.56
91	600–650	647	388.00	388.00
82	700–750	744	362.50	362.50
8	800–850	847	344.00	344.00
55	850–900	887	341.00–363.50	360.72
201	900–950	921	330.50–355.50	340.09
25	950–1000	962	342.00	342.00

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.