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Hub City Livestock Auction

Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-06
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-06

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Sat, Dec 6

● Final29 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020

← Dec 3Dec 6Dec 10 →

Receipts

2,543 head

▼ 828 vs last sale 3,371▼ 1,442 vs year ago 3,985 · −36.2%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Annual Saturday Weaned Calf sale today, compared to Wednesday's regular feeder cattle sale: steer calves 450 to 549 lbs 20.00 higher, 550 to 599 lbs not well compared, 600 to 649 lbs mostly steady. Best test on heifer calves 550 to 599 lbs mostly steady with instances up to 7.00 higher. Good to very good demand for calves today. Many packages in this offering with just a handful of loads, all long time weaned and fully preconditioned. Quality was average to attractive overall and flesh mostly moderate to moderate plus with some fill seen at times. An active market with a nice crowd of buyers and farmer feeders for this off day sale. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, December 10.

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 $460.30/cwt on 288 head. That ranks 7 of 21 comparable sales and sits −27.91 against this barn's trailing median of $488.21.

Average price

$460.30

288 head · 548 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,521

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$106

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

$32.90/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+11.73

vs SD average

+31.15 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	547	461.90	2,526	274
Medium and Large 1-2	564	429.00	2,420	14thin

One grade step is worth $32.90/cwt here — about $106 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 600–700 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale288 hd

460.30

—

SD average8 barns · 4,435 hd

448.57

+11.73

National average190 barns · 23,426 hd

429.15

+31.15

This barn, trailing median21 sales

488.21

−27.91

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

21 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $523.56, low $435.00, median $488.21 across 21 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

29 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 · Steers17 lots · lightest first
Steers	300–350	Medium and Large 1-2	342	489.51/cwt	475.00–502.50	1,674	15
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	421	520.08/cwt	512.00–530.00	2,190	39
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	463	505.42/cwt	495.00–522.50	2,340	90
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	464	485.00/cwt	485.00–485.00	2,250	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	527	445.00/cwt	445.00–445.00	2,345	6
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	537	470.63/cwt	455.00–484.00	2,527	190
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	569	442.14/cwt	432.50–453.00	2,516	84
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	592	417.00/cwt	417.00–417.00	2,469	8
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	608	375.00/cwt	375.00–375.00	2,280	9
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	415.69/cwt	395.00–431.00	2,556	228
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	639	386.00/cwt	386.00–386.00	2,467	8
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	672	404.99/cwt	390.00–413.50	2,722	260
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	690	371.00/cwt	371.00–371.00	2,560	9
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	726	390.32/cwt	370.00–401.00	2,834	262
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	743	364.25/cwt	364.00–366.00	2,706	80
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	766	372.12/cwt	365.00–381.50	2,850	121
Steers	800–850	Medium and Large 1	829	354.82/cwt	344.00–361.00	2,941	201
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	387	429.41/cwt	425.00–432.50	1,662	15
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	448	409.00/cwt	409.00–409.00	1,832	9
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	483	403.43/cwt	395.00–416.00	1,949	20
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	524	404.41/cwt	387.50–415.00	2,119	78
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	563	366.00/cwt	366.00–366.00	2,061	7
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	575	393.90/cwt	385.00–403.00	2,265	105
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1Replacement	608	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	2,462	35
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	621	376.32/cwt	365.00–399.00	2,337	121
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1-2	621	344.00/cwt	344.00–344.00	2,136	8
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	681	353.21/cwt	341.00–370.00	2,405	106
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	723	350.13/cwt	340.00–365.00	2,531	111
Heifers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	770	338.37/cwt	330.00–342.25	2,605	75

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

Sat Dec 6, 2025

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

Receipts 2,543Last week 3,371Year ago 3,985

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
7	550–600	563	366.00	366.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
15	350–400	387	425.00–432.50	429.41
9	400–450	448	409.00	409.00
20	450–500	483	395.00–416.00	403.43
78	500–550	524	387.50–415.00	404.41
105	550–600	575	385.00–403.00	393.90
121	600–650	621	365.00–399.00	376.32
106	650–700	681	341.00–370.00	353.21
111	700–750	723	340.00–365.00	350.13
75	750–800	770	330.00–342.25	338.37

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	600–650	621	344.00	344.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
35	600–650	608	405.00	405.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
39	400–450	421	512.00–530.00	520.08
90	450–500	463	495.00–522.50	505.42
190	500–550	537	455.00–484.00	470.63
84	550–600	569	432.50–453.00	442.14
228	600–650	615	395.00–431.00	415.69
260	650–700	672	390.00–413.50	404.99
262	700–750	726	370.00–401.00	390.32
121	750–800	766	365.00–381.50	372.12
201	800–850	829	344.00–361.00	354.82

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
15	300–350	342	475.00–502.50	489.51
6	450–500	464	485.00	485.00
6	500–550	527	445.00	445.00
8	550–600	592	417.00	417.00
9	600–650	608	375.00	375.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
8	600–650	639	386.00	386.00
9	650–700	690	371.00	371.00
80	700–750	743	364.00–366.00	364.25

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.