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Hub City Livestock Auction

Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-10-02
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-10-02

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Oct 2

● Final19 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020

← Sep 25Oct 2Oct 9 →

Receipts

4,673 head

▲ 1,267 vs last sale 3,406▲ 873 vs year ago 3,800 · +23.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: steers 900 to 1099 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 5.00 lower on 950 to 999 and 1050 to 1099 lbs. Heifers 800 to 899 lbs and 950 to 999 lbs 4.00 to 6.00 higher. Good to very good demand for another large offering of yearlings. Most cattle sold in loads and strings with a few packages, and most came off grass. Less flesh overall than last week with fewer lot cattle today. Quality mostly average to attractive this week. An active market with many opportunities to buy multiple loads of same weight cattle which buyers took advantage of. The futures complex had a pretty nice day today with feeder cattle up over 3.00. Very dry conditions in the area with plenty of wind, lots of red flag warnings this past week. Bean harvest is moving quickly. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, October 9.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 700–800 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

700–800 lb heifers averaged $252.64/cwt on 33 head. That ranks 1 of 30 comparable sales and sits −111.14 against this barn's trailing median of $363.78.

Average price

$252.64

33 head · 706 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,784

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$285

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

$38.00/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+11.07

vs SD average

+17.42 vs national

Price by quality 700–800 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	708	263.00	1,862	24
Medium and Large 1-2	701	225.00	1,577	9thin

One grade step is worth $38.00/cwt here — about $285 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 700–800 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 700–800 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale33 hd

252.64

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SD average6 barns · 960 hd

241.57

+11.07

National average147 barns · 6,697 hd

235.22

+17.42

This barn, trailing median30 sales

363.78

−111.14

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 700–800 lb

30 sales

Heifers 700–800 lb: high $380.28, low $321.29, median $363.78 across 30 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

19 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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	785	265.25/cwt	265.25–265.25	2,082	73
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	816	253.84/cwt	253.00–256.00	2,071	32
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	870	251.56/cwt	247.00–254.00	2,189	106
Steers	900–950	Large 1	905	234.00/cwt	234.00–234.00	2,118	17
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	941	245.29/cwt	238.00–253.00	2,308	459
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	990	239.08/cwt	236.00–245.00	2,367	276
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,030	235.84/cwt	232.50–240.00	2,429	756
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,062	231.58/cwt	230.50–232.75	2,459	343
Steers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,118	222.98/cwt	222.50–224.25	2,493	206
Feeder Cattle · Heifers10 lots · lightest first
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	701	225.00/cwt	225.00–225.00	1,577	9
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	708	263.00/cwt	263.00–263.00	1,862	24
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1-2	820	228.00/cwt	228.00–228.00	1,870	35
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	830	241.82/cwt	240.50–245.25	2,007	195
Heifers	850–900	Large 1	866	219.50/cwt	219.50–219.50	1,901	17
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	870	237.32/cwt	229.50–240.25	2,065	302
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	922	235.47/cwt	227.00–237.00	2,171	1,429
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	945	216.50/cwt	216.50–216.50	2,046	60
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	963	234.77/cwt	222.00–238.50	2,261	249
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,054	216.50/cwt	216.50–216.50	2,282	48

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 →

Hub City Livestock Auction - Aberdeen, SD

Wed Oct 2, 2024

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

Receipts 4,673Last week 3,406Year ago 3,800

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
24	700–750	708	263.00	263.00
195	800–850	830	240.50–245.25	241.82
302	850–900	870	229.50–240.25	237.32
1,429	900–950	922	227.00–237.00	235.47
249	950–1000	963	222.00–238.50	234.77

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
60	900–950	945	216.50	216.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	850–900	866	219.50	219.50
48	1050–1100	1,054	216.50	216.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
9	700–750	701	225.00	225.00
35	800–850	820	228.00	228.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
73	750–800	785	265.25	265.25
32	800–850	816	253.00–256.00	253.84
106	850–900	870	247.00–254.00	251.56
459	900–950	941	238.00–253.00	245.29
276	950–1000	990	236.00–245.00	239.08

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
17	900–950	905	234.00	234.00
756	1000–1050	1,030	232.50–240.00	235.84
343	1050–1100	1,062	230.50–232.75	231.58
206	1100–1150	1,118	222.50–224.25	222.98

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.