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Hub City Livestock Auction

Name: Hub City Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-12-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-12-10

Feeder Cattle · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Wed, Dec 10

● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2020

← Dec 6Dec 10Dec 17 →

Receipts

2,725 head

▲ 182 vs last sale 2,543▼ 1,923 vs year ago 4,648 · −41.4%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Yearlings not well compared from last Wednesday. Compared to Saturday calf sale: best test on steer calves 550 to 599 lbs and 650 to 699 lbs mostly steady, heifer calves not well compared. Good to very good demand for yearlings today. Several strings of yearlings available along with individual loads and packages, most in moderate to moderate plus flesh with a few in heavy flesh. Moderate to good demand for calves which sold mostly in packages. The majority of the calves still coming off the cow. Slightly less flesh overall than on Saturday as these calves are competing with their cows for feed in the cold weather. Quite a few cancellations due to icy roads and high winds yesterday. An active market on yearlings, moderate to active on calves, a lighter attendance at the sale today mostly due to weather. Another round of snow expected for tomorrow with a winter weather advisory in effect. Next feeder cattle sale is Wednesday, December 17, this will be the last feeder cattle sale of 2025.

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 $445.28/cwt on 388 head. That ranks 3 of 21 comparable sales and sits −42.93 against this barn's trailing median of $488.21.

Average price

$445.28

388 head · 563 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,506

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$242

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

$27.24/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−6.36

vs SD average

+14.65 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	566	449.56	2,545	327
Medium and Large 1-2	545	422.32	2,302	61

One grade step is worth $27.24/cwt here — about $242 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 sale388 hd

445.28

—

SD average7 barns · 4,094 hd

451.64

−6.36

National average179 barns · 20,601 hd

430.63

+14.65

This barn, trailing median21 sales

488.21

−42.93

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

33 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 1-2	310	400.00/cwt	400.00–400.00	1,240	7
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	424	503.98/cwt	495.00–522.50	2,137	58
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2	436	474.87/cwt	470.00–480.00	2,070	14
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	488	485.68/cwt	477.50–492.00	2,370	102
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	511	480.68/cwt	467.00–492.50	2,456	46
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	537	433.93/cwt	420.00–440.00	2,330	45
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	568	389.68/cwt	385.50–399.00	2,213	16
Steers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	575	444.47/cwt	439.50–451.00	2,556	281
Steers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	418.40/cwt	412.50–420.00	2,573	42
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	667	402.19/cwt	397.00–409.00	2,683	108
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1-2	692	354.50/cwt	354.50–354.50	2,453	18
Steers	750–800	Medium and Large 1	765	368.00/cwt	368.00–368.00	2,815	18
Steers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	939	345.02/cwt	333.00–348.00	3,240	44
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,087	308.83/cwt	304.25–310.25	3,357	320
Steers	1100–1150	Large 1	1,139	302.75/cwt	302.75–302.75	3,448	151
Steers	1150–1200	Large 1	1,164	302.75/cwt	302.75–302.75	3,524	50
Feeder Cattle · Heifers17 lots · lightest first
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1	381	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	1,829	8
Heifers	350–400	Medium and Large 1-2	383	447.50/cwt	447.50–447.50	1,714	4
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	440	396.83/cwt	387.50–400.00	1,746	20
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	464	410.89/cwt	390.00–430.00	1,907	47
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1-2	491	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,866	17
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	521	350.00/cwt	350.00–350.00	1,824	29
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	525	405.49/cwt	387.00–421.00	2,129	74
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1-2	556	354.00/cwt	354.00–354.00	1,968	19
Heifers	550–600	Medium and Large 1	573	386.59/cwt	382.00–399.00	2,215	68
Heifers	600–650	Medium and Large 1	615	359.34/cwt	348.00–368.00	2,210	57
Heifers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	702	335.00/cwt	335.00–335.00	2,352	15
Heifers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	859	323.01/cwt	321.00–325.00	2,775	24
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	915	283.00/cwt	283.00–283.00	2,589	38
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	926	311.24/cwt	297.58–325.00	2,882	234
Heifers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	989	303.11/cwt	298.00–312.00	2,998	234
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,001	312.00/cwt	312.00–312.00	3,123	116
Heifers	1000–1050	Large 1Fleshy	1,035	286.00/cwt	286.00–286.00	2,960	57

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 Dec 10, 2025

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

Receipts 2,725Last week 2,543Year ago 4,648

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
57	1000–1050	1,035	286.00	286.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
38	900–950	915	283.00	283.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
116	1000–1050	1,001	312.00	312.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
8	350–400	381	480.00	480.00
20	400–450	440	387.50–400.00	396.83
47	450–500	464	390.00–430.00	410.89
74	500–550	525	387.00–421.00	405.49
68	550–600	573	382.00–399.00	386.59
57	600–650	615	348.00–368.00	359.34
15	700–750	702	335.00	335.00
24	850–900	859	321.00–325.00	323.01
234	900–950	926	297.58–325.00	311.24
234	950–1000	989	298.00–312.00	303.11

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	350–400	383	447.50	447.50
17	450–500	491	380.00	380.00
29	500–550	521	350.00	350.00
19	550–600	556	354.00	354.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
58	400–450	424	495.00–522.50	503.98
102	450–500	488	477.50–492.00	485.68
46	500–550	511	467.00–492.50	480.68
281	550–600	575	439.50–451.00	444.47
42	600–650	615	412.50–420.00	418.40
108	650–700	667	397.00–409.00	402.19
18	750–800	765	368.00	368.00
44	900–950	939	333.00–348.00	345.02

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
7	300–350	310	400.00	400.00
14	400–450	436	470.00–480.00	474.87
45	500–550	537	420.00–440.00	433.93
16	550–600	568	385.50–399.00	389.68
18	650–700	692	354.50	354.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
320	1050–1100	1,087	304.25–310.25	308.83
151	1100–1150	1,139	302.75	302.75
50	1150–1200	1,164	302.75	302.75

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.