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Hub City Livestock Auction

Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-08-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-08-20

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Aug 20

● Final14 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020

← Aug 13Aug 20Aug 27 →

Receipts

1,397 head

▼ 1,125 vs last sale 2,522▼ 150 vs year ago 1,547 · −9.7%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 900-999 lbs 16.00-20.00 higher. Best test on heifers 900 to 949 lbs 7.00 higher on a narrow comparison. Demand good today especially so on cattle coming right off grass. Flesh conditions mostly on the lighter side. Sale mostly consisted of large, uniform loads. Quality attractive with a few packages of average cattle thrown in. Very active bidding on the bigger loads offered where options to buy were offered. Cattle rally continued today on the CME cattle futures contracts with most contract months scoring new highs. Demand remains exceptionally high for feeders with all this support in the cattle complex.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 700–800 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

700–800 lb steers averaged $357.83/cwt on 23 head. That ranks 4 of 29 comparable sales and sits −34.13 against this barn's trailing median of $391.96.

Average price

$357.83

23 head · 752 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,690

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$296

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

$12.00/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−9.65

vs SD average

−5.36 vs national

Price by quality 700–800 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	772	362.00	2,795	15thin
Medium and Large 1-2	714	350.00	2,499	8thin

One grade step is worth $12.00/cwt here — about $296 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 sale23 hd

357.83

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SD average5 barns · 273 hd

367.47

−9.65

National average138 barns · 6,493 hd

363.19

−5.36

This barn, trailing median29 sales

391.96

−34.13

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

29 sales

Steers 700–800 lb: high $425.87, low $342.00, median $391.96 across 29 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

14 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 · Steers6 lots · lightest first
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1-2	714	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	2,499	8
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	772	362.00/cwt	362.00–362.00	2,795	15
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	811	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	2,920	6
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	925	344.65/cwt	332.50–347.50	3,188	400
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	984	342.31/cwt	341.50–342.50	3,368	276
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,018	336.23/cwt	335.00–337.50	3,423	120
Feeder Cattle · Heifers8 lots · lightest first
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	785	323.00/cwt	323.00–323.00	2,536	8
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	795	339.00/cwt	339.00–339.00	2,695	187
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1-2	836	317.00/cwt	317.00–317.00	2,650	16
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1-2	877	321.00/cwt	321.00–321.00	2,815	22
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	917	331.56/cwt	328.00–331.75	3,040	59
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	957	311.14/cwt	310.50–319.50	2,978	117
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,037	320.29/cwt	316.00–321.50	3,321	18
Heifers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,144	292.00/cwt	292.00–292.00	3,340	8

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 Aug 20, 2025

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

Receipts 1,397Last week 2,522Year ago 1,547

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
120	1000–1050	1,018	335.00–337.50	336.23

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
15	750–800	772	362.00	362.00
6	800–850	811	360.00	360.00
400	900–950	925	332.50–347.50	344.65
276	950–1000	984	341.50–342.50	342.31

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	700–750	714	350.00	350.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
187	750–800	795	339.00	339.00
59	900–950	917	328.00–331.75	331.56
117	950–1000	957	310.50–319.50	311.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	750–800	785	323.00	323.00
16	800–850	836	317.00	317.00
22	850–900	877	321.00	321.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	1000–1050	1,037	316.00–321.50	320.29
8	1100–1150	1,144	292.00	292.00

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.