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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2025-12-19
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-19

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, Dec 19

● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Dec 12Dec 19Jan 9 →

Receipts

3,449 head

▲ 1,788 vs last sale 1,661▲ 1,754 vs year ago 1,695 · +103.5%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No yearlings last week for comparison. Best test on steer calves 600 to 649 lbs 5.00 higher on a narrow comparison, heifer calves not well compared. A large yearling offering this week, strings of both steers and heifers available with many opportunities to buy multiple loads to fill pens. Yearlings mostly in moderate to moderate plus flesh with some heavy flesh at times. Good to very good demand for yearlings. A lighter offering of calves with most calves selling in packages, just a couple loads available. A few consignments were weaned but the majority are still coming off the cow. Quality varied, from plain to attractive. Mostly good demand for calves, it was just a bit harder to make loads of calves today. An active market with many buyers trying to tie up loose ends before the end of the year. Temperatures have been very up and down lately making it harder calves, especially newly weaned ones. This is the last feeder cattle sale of 2025, next feeder cattle sale will be Friday, January 9, 2026. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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 $460.37/cwt on 191 head. That ranks 3 of 10 comparable sales and sits −26.29 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$460.37

191 head · 551 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,537

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$188

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

$53.38/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−8.73

vs SD average

+16.27 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	547	468.19	2,563	163
Medium and Large 1-2	573	414.81	2,375	28

One grade step is worth $53.38/cwt here — about $188 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 sale191 hd

460.37

—

SD average4 barns · 1,653 hd

469.10

−8.73

National average163 barns · 16,063 hd

444.10

+16.27

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

−26.29

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

33 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 · Steers20 lots · lightest first
Steers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	355	558.02/cwt	555.00–560.00	1,981	10
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	438	492.65/cwt	487.50–505.00	2,158	26
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	445	450.00/cwt	450.00–450.00	2,003	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	467	480.94/cwt	480.00–485.00	2,246	59
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	513	470.86/cwt	450.00–492.50	2,416	59
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	545	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	2,180	6
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	567	466.68/cwt	447.00–472.50	2,646	104
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	580	418.85/cwt	412.50–422.50	2,429	22
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	628	417.08/cwt	400.00–433.00	2,619	121
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	642	348.37/cwt	341.00–369.00	2,237	23
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	664	389.20/cwt	370.00–400.00	2,584	50
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	707	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,793	75
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	799	367.00/cwt	367.00–367.00	2,932	70
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	832	351.00/cwt	351.00–351.00	2,920	45
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	910	351.50/cwt	351.50–351.50	3,199	63
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	995	314.50/cwt	314.50–314.50	3,129	50
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,023	315.90/cwt	310.00–329.75	3,232	381
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,064	321.75/cwt	314.50–324.75	3,423	223
Steers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,118	315.06/cwt	312.00–317.00	3,522	520
Steers	1150–1200	Large 1	1,153	311.35/cwt	310.50–311.75	3,590	158
Feeder Cattle · Heifers13 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	313	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,502	6
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	369	524.59/cwt	520.00–530.00	1,936	15
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	426	465.63/cwt	450.00–477.50	1,984	32
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	488	414.76/cwt	412.50–417.50	2,024	13
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	528	432.28/cwt	423.00–437.50	2,282	43
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	541	377.50/cwt	377.50–377.50	2,042	8
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	586	388.93/cwt	387.00–406.00	2,279	65
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	378.97/cwt	362.50–382.50	2,331	23
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	921	302.00/cwt	293.00–306.75	2,781	217
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	969	301.00/cwt	301.00–301.00	2,917	129
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,015	297.19/cwt	292.25–302.50	3,016	251
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,077	295.28/cwt	294.00–296.00	3,180	209
Heifers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,135	285.00/cwt	285.00–285.00	3,235	26

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 19, 2025

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

Receipts 3,449Last week 1,661Year ago 1,695

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
251	1000–1050	1,015	292.25–302.50	297.19
209	1050–1100	1,077	294.00–296.00	295.28
26	1100–1150	1,135	285.00	285.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
15	350–400	369	520.00–530.00	524.59
32	400–450	426	450.00–477.50	465.63
13	450–500	488	412.50–417.50	414.76
43	500–550	528	423.00–437.50	432.28
65	550–600	586	387.00–406.00	388.93
23	600–650	615	362.50–382.50	378.97
217	900–950	921	293.00–306.75	302.00
129	950–1000	969	301.00	301.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	300–350	313	480.00	480.00
8	500–550	541	377.50	377.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	350–400	355	555.00–560.00	558.02
26	400–450	438	487.50–505.00	492.65
59	450–500	467	480.00–485.00	480.94
59	500–550	513	450.00–492.50	470.86
104	550–600	567	447.00–472.50	466.68
121	600–650	628	400.00–433.00	417.08
50	650–700	664	370.00–400.00	389.20
75	700–750	707	395.00	395.00
70	750–800	799	367.00	367.00
45	800–850	832	351.00	351.00
63	900–950	910	351.50	351.50
50	950–1000	995	314.50	314.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	445	450.00	450.00
6	500–550	545	400.00	400.00
22	550–600	580	412.50–422.50	418.85
23	600–650	642	341.00–369.00	348.37

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
381	1000–1050	1,023	310.00–329.75	315.90
223	1050–1100	1,064	314.50–324.75	321.75
520	1100–1150	1,118	312.00–317.00	315.06
158	1150–1200	1,153	310.50–311.75	311.35

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.