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Herreid Livestock Market

Name: Herreid Livestock Market livestock auction prices — 2026-05-01
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2026-05-01

Feeder Cattle · Herreid, South Dakota · Fri, May 1

● Final18 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2024

← Apr 17May 1May 15 →

Receipts

2,079 head

▼ 159 vs last sale 2,238▲ 2,079 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No sale last week due to light receipts, compared to two weeks ago: best test on steers 1000 to 1049 lbs 5.00 higher. Heifers not well compared. Very good demand for today's offering featuring mostly loads and strings of big, finishing type cattle including several strings of home raised cattle. Lots of attractive quality cattle to choose from, most in moderate to moderate plus flesh with some heavy flesh at times. An active market with many opportunities to buy multiple loads of same man's cattle which buyers took advantage of. The weather has remained cool and it has still been freezing overnight, a warmer weekend is expected. Bred cattle and pairs will be featured in next week's sale, next feeder cattle sale will be the Annual Spring BBQ Sale on Friday, May 15, expecting 10,000 head or more.

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 $496.84/cwt on 61 head, up $17.65 from the prior sale. That ranks 7 of 10 comparable sales and sits +10.18 against this barn's trailing median of $486.66.

Average price

$496.84

▲ 17.65 vs prior sale

61 head · 581 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,887

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

+5.13

vs SD average

+15.82 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	581	496.84	2,887	61

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale61 hd

496.84

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SD average3 barns · 135 hd

491.70

+5.13

National average169 barns · 10,621 hd

481.02

+15.82

This barn, trailing median10 sales

486.66

+10.18

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

18 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 · Steers12 lots · lightest first
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	468	593.00/cwt	593.00–593.00	2,775	10
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	507	545.00/cwt	545.00–545.00	2,763	9
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	594	488.50/cwt	488.50–488.50	2,902	52
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	622	468.64/cwt	460.00–487.00	2,915	29
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	723	439.00/cwt	439.00–439.00	3,174	19
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	748	404.00/cwt	404.00–404.00	3,022	13
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	820	386.29/cwt	376.00–391.00	3,168	144
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	923	353.09/cwt	341.50–362.25	3,259	403
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	971	358.00/cwt	358.00–358.00	3,476	70
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,027	340.95/cwt	332.50–345.00	3,502	533
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,050	332.50/cwt	332.50–332.50	3,491	60
Steers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,132	326.00/cwt	326.00–326.00	3,690	102
Feeder Cattle · Heifers6 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	400	557.50/cwt	557.50–557.50	2,230	6
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	497	492.50/cwt	492.50–492.50	2,448	21
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	503	490.00/cwt	490.00–490.00	2,465	10
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	620	427.52/cwt	425.00–434.00	2,651	133
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	710	399.29/cwt	381.00–402.75	2,835	285
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	759	387.00/cwt	387.00–387.00	2,937	11

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 May 1, 2026

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

Receipts 2,079Last week 2,238Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	400	557.50	557.50
21	450–500	497	492.50	492.50
10	500–550	503	490.00	490.00
133	600–650	620	425.00–434.00	427.52
285	700–750	710	381.00–402.75	399.29
11	750–800	759	387.00	387.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
10	450–500	468	593.00	593.00
9	500–550	507	545.00	545.00
52	550–600	594	488.50	488.50
29	600–650	622	460.00–487.00	468.64
19	700–750	723	439.00	439.00
144	800–850	820	376.00–391.00	386.29
403	900–950	923	341.50–362.25	353.09
70	950–1000	971	358.00	358.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
13	700–750	748	404.00	404.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
533	1000–1050	1,027	332.50–345.00	340.95
60	1050–1100	1,050	332.50	332.50
102	1100–1150	1,132	326.00	326.00

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.