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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-12-12
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-12

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Dec 12

● Final24 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Dec 5Dec 12Dec 19 →

Receipts

1,661 head

▼ 3,674 vs last sale 5,335▼ 1,305 vs year ago 2,966 · −44.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steer calves 600 to 649 lbs 7.00 to 10.00 higher. Best test on heifer calves 550 to 599 lbs 10.00 to 12.00 higher. No yearlings in today's offering for comparison. Good to very good demand for calves today. A lighter offering with mostly packages and just a couple load lots. A few more weaned calves available but the majority are still coming off the cow. Quality more attractive overall than seen last week, most calves were average to attractive in quality and flesh condition mostly moderate to moderate plus. Most calves had at least one good round of shots, usually given in the fall. An active market with most of the usual order buyers attending and a few less farmer feeders. The weather this week has been challenging, raining earlier in the week and forming quite a bit of ice and snow later in the week, some road and yard conditions are still very slick, this weekend will feature bitter cold. Next feeder cattle sale is Friday, December 19, this will be the last sale of 2025.

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 $460.62/cwt on 225 head. That ranks 3 of 10 comparable sales and sits −26.03 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$460.62

225 head · 533 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,456

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$265

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

$79.10/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+0.68

vs SD average

+29.99 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	527	472.58	2,492	191
Medium and Large 1-2	566	393.48	2,227	34

One grade step is worth $79.10/cwt here — about $265 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 sale225 hd

460.62

—

SD average5 barns · 2,334 hd

459.94

+0.68

National average179 barns · 20,601 hd

430.63

+29.99

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

−26.03

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

24 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	350–400	Medium and Large 1	387	560.00/cwt	560.00–560.00	2,167	18
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	409	457.50/cwt	457.50–457.50	1,871	4
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	434	482.73/cwt	466.00–500.00	2,095	32
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	490	475.89/cwt	467.00–487.00	2,332	74
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1Fancy	515	491.50/cwt	491.50–491.50	2,531	106
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	527	406.87/cwt	392.50–425.00	2,144	9
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	529	453.92/cwt	447.50–459.00	2,401	62
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	580	435.65/cwt	430.00–452.50	2,527	23
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	580	388.66/cwt	371.00–400.00	2,254	25
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	612	413.94/cwt	395.50–428.00	2,533	265
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Fancy	619	442.00/cwt	442.00–442.00	2,736	85
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	640	382.51/cwt	381.00–392.50	2,448	29
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	686	391.45/cwt	377.00–400.00	2,685	70
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	720	382.92/cwt	364.00–394.00	2,757	57
Feeder Cattle · Heifers10 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	389	465.00/cwt	465.00–465.00	1,809	11
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	400	492.50/cwt	492.50–492.50	1,970	23
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	415	437.50/cwt	437.50–437.50	1,816	10
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	483	440.39/cwt	420.00–445.00	2,127	177
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	503	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	1,861	15
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	517	419.84/cwt	407.50–428.00	2,171	66
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	569	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	2,077	8
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	578	385.83/cwt	370.00–405.00	2,230	266
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	616	377.58/cwt	366.00–385.00	2,326	30
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	654	381.47/cwt	365.00–389.00	2,495	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 Dec 12, 2025

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

Receipts 1,661Last week 5,335Year ago 2,966

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	400–450	415	437.50	437.50
15	500–550	503	370.00	370.00
8	550–600	569	365.00	365.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	389	465.00	465.00
23	400–450	400	492.50	492.50
177	450–500	483	420.00–445.00	440.39
66	500–550	517	407.50–428.00	419.84
266	550–600	578	370.00–405.00	385.83
30	600–650	616	366.00–385.00	377.58
38	650–700	654	365.00–389.00	381.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	400–450	409	457.50	457.50
9	500–550	527	392.50–425.00	406.87
25	550–600	580	371.00–400.00	388.66
29	600–650	640	381.00–392.50	382.51

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	350–400	387	560.00	560.00
32	400–450	434	466.00–500.00	482.73
74	450–500	490	467.00–487.00	475.89
62	500–550	529	447.50–459.00	453.92
23	550–600	580	430.00–452.50	435.65
265	600–650	612	395.50–428.00	413.94
70	650–700	686	377.00–400.00	391.45
57	700–750	720	364.00–394.00	382.92

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
106	500–550	515	491.50	491.50
85	600–650	619	442.00	442.00

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.