Sale reports / South Dakota / Hub City Livestock Auction / 2023-04-26

Hub City Livestock Auction

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Apr 26
● Final50 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020
Receipts
6,136 head
▼ 1,394 vs last sale 7,530▼ 269 vs year ago 6,405 · −4.2%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 700 to 1040 lbs mostly steady, except 950 to 1000 lbs not well compared. Best test on heifers 600 to 899 lbs mostly steady except 800 to 849 lbs not well compared. Good to very good demand for another large offering with light, grass type cattle seeing excellent demand again this week. Several loads and packages of replacement type heifers met with very good demand. Flesh condition similar to last week, from light to some heavy flesh at times. Quality varied most in packages with more plain cattle included in these, strings and loads were mostly average to attractive in quality. An active market seen for this offering, both order buyers and farmer feeders in the seats as well as a few producers interested in heifers to breed. Rainy and cloudy conditions today and cooler conditions expected for the rest of the week, it looks to finally warm up next week.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $212.31/cwt on 3,344 head.
Average price
$212.31
3,344 head · 831 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,763
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$469
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Large 1
$41.81/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+1.45
vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2626227.891,426153
Medium and Large 1816215.091,7552,804
Large 11,018186.081,894387
One grade step is worth $41.81/cwt here — about −$469 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale3,344 hd
212.31
—
SD average7 barns · 11,630 hd
210.86
+1.45
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot

50 lots · USDA AMS · Hub City Livestock Auction - Aberdeen, 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers24 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2395274.00/cwt274.00–274.001,0826
Steers—Medium and Large 1418280.00/cwt280.00–280.001,1708
Steers—Medium and Large 1466282.50/cwt282.50–282.501,31610
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2513248.17/cwt244.00–252.001,27340
Steers—Medium and Large 1526273.49/cwt267.00–280.001,43980
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2572226.08/cwt222.00–233.001,29327
Steers—Medium and Large 1595266.23/cwt266.00–270.001,584152
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2611211.66/cwt211.00–212.001,29315
Steers—Medium and Large 1619242.72/cwt236.00–251.001,50297
Steers—Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed646280.00/cwt280.00–280.001,80981
Steers—Medium and Large 1660261.23/cwt260.50–262.001,72476
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2676236.50/cwt236.50–236.501,59918
Steers—Medium and Large 1716238.33/cwt223.00–246.001,706107
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy727213.82/cwt213.50–214.001,55440
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2767207.66/cwt207.00–208.001,59347
Steers—Medium and Large 1775224.38/cwt211.00–232.001,739395
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy803183.00/cwt183.00–183.001,4696
Steers—Medium and Large 1824204.63/cwt196.00–218.001,686244
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy865181.00/cwt181.00–181.001,5667
Steers—Medium and Large 1873200.07/cwt188.50–206.251,747651
Steers—Medium and Large 1920194.88/cwt189.50–199.001,793673
Steers—Medium and Large 1979187.76/cwt186.75–189.501,838177
Steers—Large 11,012186.85/cwt182.75–188.001,891336
Steers—Large 11,058181.00/cwt181.00–181.001,91551
Feeder Cattle · Heifers26 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1431259.27/cwt248.00–262.001,11726
Heifers—Medium and Large 1488254.00/cwt254.00–254.001,24032
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy520227.00/cwt227.00–227.001,1807
Heifers—Medium and Large 1528242.57/cwt230.00–250.501,28198
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2546218.00/cwt218.00–218.001,1908
Heifers—Medium and Large 1575222.24/cwt217.00–226.001,278108
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2595193.00/cwt193.00–193.001,14815
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed604234.00/cwt234.00–234.001,41338
Heifers—Medium and Large 1629212.50/cwt209.00–220.001,337104
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed656228.00/cwt228.00–228.001,49695
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2679188.00/cwt188.00–188.001,2779
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement6861,510.00/head1,510.00–1,510.001,51080
Heifers—Medium and Large 1688206.29/cwt200.00–210.501,419112
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement7011,520.00/head1,520.00–1,520.001,52078
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2718181.00/cwt181.00–181.001,30016
Heifers—Medium and Large 1736200.31/cwt195.00–212.001,474315
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement756208.00/cwt208.00–208.001,57221
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement7791,668.52/head1,650.00–1,680.001,669197
Heifers—Medium and Large 1783197.87/cwt189.00–201.501,549209
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement8181,660.00/head1,660.00–1,660.001,66020
Heifers—Medium and Large 1836186.47/cwt172.00–188.501,55972
Heifers—Medium and Large 1860187.83/cwt185.00–191.001,615258
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement863196.50/cwt196.50–196.501,6968
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Replacement8651,660.00/head1,660.00–1,660.001,66095
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2897160.00/cwt160.00–160.001,43519
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2906166.50/cwt166.50–166.501,50845

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.