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Hub City Livestock Auction

Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-10-15
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-10-15

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Oct 15

● Final36 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020

← Oct 8Oct 15Oct 22 →

Receipts

3,301 head

▲ 159 vs last sale 3,142▼ 289 vs year ago 3,590 · −8.1%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: yearling steers not well compared. Best test on yearling heifers 900 to 949 lbs 15.00 to 20.00 higher. No good comparisons on spring calves. Very good demand for yearlings today with those coming off grass seeing the best demand. Several strings of grass cattle available, mostly in light to moderate flesh and attractive in quality. A few consignments of lot cattle also, some in heavy flesh, but buyers are happy to own these cattle also, just with a price adjustment. A few spring calves on offer today, these met with good to very good demand. Mostly packages of calves with just a couple loads, flesh ranged from light to moderate plus. Buyers are very choosy on vaccinations and those calves without a solid shot record are discounted. Quality varied on calves, from plain to attractive. An active market with buyers and farmer feeders in the seats. The recent advances of the futures complex have put quite a bit of enthusiasm back in the market and buyers are wanting to have cattle on hand to market in the future, which looks very bright. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, October 22.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $422.35/cwt on 62 head. That ranks 7 of 22 comparable sales and sits −19.17 against this barn's trailing median of $441.52.

Average price

$422.35

62 head · 527 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,226

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−21.88

vs SD average

+24.49 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	527	422.35	2,226	62

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 sale62 hd

422.35

—

SD average5 barns · 2,366 hd

444.23

−21.88

National average180 barns · 19,448 hd

397.86

+24.49

This barn, trailing median22 sales

441.52

−19.17

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

22 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $459.70, low $342.00, median $441.52 across 22 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

36 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 · Steers16 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	317	625.75/cwt	607.50–640.00	1,984	19
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	423	563.42/cwt	520.00–580.00	2,383	49
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	483	540.69/cwt	539.00–560.00	2,612	96
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	519	520.56/cwt	503.00–537.50	2,702	66
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	587	478.00/cwt	478.00–478.00	2,806	27
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	603	445.00/cwt	445.00–445.00	2,683	10
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	654	458.00/cwt	458.00–458.00	2,995	82
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	699	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	2,761	20
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	724	392.81/cwt	387.00–410.00	2,844	48
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	752	401.00/cwt	401.00–401.00	3,016	8
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1-2	793	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	2,974	8
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	823	390.84/cwt	384.50–394.00	3,217	209
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	878	371.28/cwt	363.00–374.50	3,260	153
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	940	362.13/cwt	359.00–364.25	3,404	136
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	967	363.20/cwt	349.75–367.50	3,512	331
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,051	351.00/cwt	351.00–351.00	3,689	60
Feeder Cattle · Heifers20 lots · lightest first
Heifers	300–350	Medium and Large 1	334	575.49/cwt	570.00–580.00	1,922	18
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	420	515.79/cwt	475.00–525.00	2,166	40
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	446	472.50/cwt	472.50–472.50	2,107	12
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	493	457.50/cwt	457.50–457.50	2,255	8
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	527	422.35/cwt	410.00–450.00	2,226	62
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	670	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	2,546	21
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	690	332.50/cwt	332.50–332.50	2,294	23
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	718	359.00/cwt	359.00–359.00	2,578	9
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	751	322.00/cwt	322.00–322.00	2,418	15
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	758	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	2,577	8
Heifers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	822	353.37/cwt	351.50–354.00	2,905	252
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	854	314.00/cwt	314.00–314.00	2,682	43
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	878	353.09/cwt	329.00–357.25	3,100	402
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	928	346.74/cwt	321.00–351.00	3,218	331
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	970	326.08/cwt	304.00–329.25	3,163	86
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1Fleshy	1,012	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	2,823	23
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,032	306.84/cwt	301.00–320.00	3,167	19
Heifers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,098	289.00/cwt	289.00–289.00	3,173	9
Heifers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,133	307.00/cwt	307.00–307.00	3,478	58
Heifers	1200–1250	Large 1	1,220	257.00/cwt	257.00–257.00	3,135	152

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 15, 2025

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

Receipts 3,301Last week 3,142Year ago 3,590

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
23	1000–1050	1,012	279.00	279.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	1000–1050	1,032	301.00–320.00	306.84
9	1050–1100	1,098	289.00	289.00
58	1100–1150	1,133	307.00	307.00
152	1200–1250	1,220	257.00	257.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	300–350	334	570.00–580.00	575.49
40	400–450	420	475.00–525.00	515.79
8	450–500	493	457.50	457.50
62	500–550	527	410.00–450.00	422.35
21	650–700	670	380.00	380.00
9	700–750	718	359.00	359.00
8	750–800	758	340.00	340.00
252	800–850	822	351.50–354.00	353.37
402	850–900	878	329.00–357.25	353.09
331	900–950	928	321.00–351.00	346.74
86	950–1000	970	304.00–329.25	326.08

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
12	400–450	446	472.50	472.50
23	650–700	690	332.50	332.50
15	750–800	751	322.00	322.00
43	850–900	854	314.00	314.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
60	1050–1100	1,051	351.00	351.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	300–350	317	607.50–640.00	625.75
49	400–450	423	520.00–580.00	563.42
96	450–500	483	539.00–560.00	540.69
66	500–550	519	503.00–537.50	520.56
27	550–600	587	478.00	478.00
10	600–650	603	445.00	445.00
82	650–700	654	458.00	458.00
48	700–750	724	387.00–410.00	392.81
8	750–800	752	401.00	401.00
209	800–850	823	384.50–394.00	390.84
153	850–900	878	363.00–374.50	371.28
136	900–950	940	359.00–364.25	362.13
331	950–1000	967	349.75–367.50	363.20

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
20	650–700	699	395.00	395.00
8	750–800	793	375.00	375.00

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.