Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2020-02-20

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2020-02-20
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-02-20

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Feb 20

● Final30 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Feb 13Feb 20Mar 5 →

Receipts

3,934 head

▲ 2,141 vs last sale 1,793▲ 3,934 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

A much larger offering than last week with best test on steers 700 to 800 lbs mostly steady. Heifers not well compared. Moderate to good demand for this offering of many packages and loads of both home raised and backgrounded cattle with several opportunities to buy multiple loads from one producer. Several loads and packages of replacement quality heifers from reputation outfits were met with very good demand. Overall, more flesh on today's offering than last weeks', with most cattle today in moderate to moderate plus flesh with some heavy flesh at times. Quality mostly attractive today. A moderate to active market seen for this offering. Temps have warmed up to slightly above freezing and are expected to stay this way for the next week or so. This is very welcome weather as some producers will start calving soon or have already started. Next feeder cattle sale is in two weeks, Thursday, March 5.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb steers averaged $145.17/cwt on 2,415 head.

Average price

$145.17

2,415 head · 774 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,124

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$168

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

$3.07/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−7.22

vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1-2	646	148.20	958	30
Medium and Large 1	776	145.13	1,126	2,385

One grade step is worth $3.07/cwt here — about −$168 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale2,415 hd

145.17

—

SD average8 barns · 17,655 hd

152.38

−7.22

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot

30 lots · USDA AMS · Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, 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 · Steers15 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	428	172.68/cwt	171.50–175.00	739	18
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	525	160.00/cwt	160.00–160.00	840	12
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	531	180.57/cwt	172.50–183.50	959	34
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	573	165.79/cwt	163.00–168.00	950	18
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	595	154.50/cwt	154.50–154.50	919	16
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	623	153.63/cwt	153.50–154.00	957	50
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	640	161.25/cwt	160.75–162.50	1,032	140
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	668	158.76/cwt	156.00–164.00	1,061	195
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	705	141.00/cwt	141.00–141.00	994	14
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	730	149.95/cwt	145.50–153.50	1,095	474
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	776	140.79/cwt	138.75–143.50	1,093	302
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	819	139.38/cwt	136.00–141.00	1,142	637
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	863	137.68/cwt	134.00–139.25	1,188	269
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	903	135.50/cwt	135.50–135.50	1,224	126
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	988	129.75/cwt	129.75–129.75	1,282	110
Feeder Cattle · Heifers15 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	440	155.00/cwt	155.00–155.00	682	5
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	486	153.69/cwt	151.00–157.00	747	30
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	531	152.78/cwt	150.00–158.50	811	35
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	570	127.00/cwt	127.00–127.00	724	9
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	575	150.70/cwt	143.50–156.00	867	244
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1Replacement	615	153.25/cwt	153.25–153.25	942	50
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	625	146.28/cwt	141.00–148.00	914	191
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	635	135.50/cwt	135.50–135.50	860	43
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	665	145.79/cwt	137.00–149.75	970	179
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	684	131.66/cwt	128.50–134.00	901	19
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1Replacement	709	142.04/cwt	141.00–145.00	1,007	80
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	721	133.41/cwt	129.50–136.25	962	209
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	764	132.02/cwt	130.50–133.25	1,009	154
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	813	126.80/cwt	126.25–127.00	1,031	27
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	865	128.25/cwt	128.25–128.25	1,109	60

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 →

Mobridge Livestock Exchange (Thursday) - Mobridge, SD

Thu Feb 20, 2020

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

Receipts 3,934Last week 1,793Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	428	171.50–175.00	172.68
110	—	988	129.75	129.75
195	—	668	156.00–164.00	158.76
474	—	730	145.50–153.50	149.95
34	—	531	172.50–183.50	180.57
140	—	640	160.75–162.50	161.25
302	—	776	138.75–143.50	140.79
18	—	573	163.00–168.00	165.79
126	—	903	135.50	135.50
269	—	863	134.00–139.25	137.68
637	—	819	136.00–141.00	139.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
16	—	595	154.50	154.50
14	—	705	141.00	141.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
50	—	623	153.50–154.00	153.63
12	—	525	160.00	160.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	486	151.00–157.00	153.69
154	—	764	130.50–133.25	132.02
209	—	721	129.50–136.25	133.41
27	—	813	126.25–127.00	126.80
60	—	865	128.25	128.25
191	—	625	141.00–148.00	146.28
5	—	440	155.00	155.00
35	—	531	150.00–158.50	152.78
179	—	665	137.00–149.75	145.79
244	—	575	143.50–156.00	150.70

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
80	—	709	141.00–145.00	142.04
50	—	615	153.25	153.25

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
43	—	635	135.50	135.50
19	—	684	128.50–134.00	131.66
9	—	570	127.00	127.00

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.