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Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2020-10-01
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-10-01

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Oct 1

● Final14 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Sep 17Oct 1Oct 8 →

Receipts

891 head

▼ 2,754 vs last sale 3,645▲ 211 vs year ago 680 · +31.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to two weeks ago: best test on heifers 750 to 800 lbs 2.00 to 3.00 higher and 850 to 900 lbs mostly steady. Moderate to good demand for today's light yearling offering consisting of one string of spayed heifers with the remainder of the cattle being heifers offered in packages. Quality mostly average to attractive, many of these were home raised cattle, including many of tested open heifers. Flesh mostly light to moderate with the majority of the cattle coming off grass. Moderate market activity with a limited crowd of order buyers attending the auction, any farmer feeders are busy with harvest. Harvest is progressing very quickly as the weather remains warm and dry. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, October 8.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb heifers averaged $135.95/cwt on 646 head.

Average price

$135.95

646 head · 850 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,156

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$135

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1

$13.33/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−1.39

vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	834	137.06	1,143	592
Large 1	1,033	123.73	1,278	54

One grade step is worth $13.33/cwt here — about −$135 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 sale646 hd

135.95

—

SD average9 barns · 9,442 hd

137.33

−1.39

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

Every lot

14 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 · Steers4 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	710	149.00/cwt	149.00–149.00	1,058	6
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Full	805	140.50/cwt	140.50–140.50	1,131	5
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1Full	895	139.25/cwt	139.25–139.25	1,246	17
Steers	—	Large 1	1,030	132.00/cwt	132.00–132.00	1,360	14
Feeder Cattle · Heifers10 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	690	136.00/cwt	136.00–136.00	938	12
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	733	140.39/cwt	140.00–141.00	1,029	18
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	758	141.80/cwt	140.75–143.00	1,075	177
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	817	136.16/cwt	133.50–137.25	1,112	67
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	868	136.66/cwt	127.00–138.75	1,186	216
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	928	130.86/cwt	130.00–131.00	1,214	72
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	966	127.31/cwt	125.50–128.50	1,230	30
Heifers	—	Large 1	1,015	125.14/cwt	120.50–126.75	1,270	42
Heifers	—	Large 1	1,050	121.50/cwt	121.50–121.50	1,276	7
Heifers	—	Large 1	1,155	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	1,328	5

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 Oct 1, 2020

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

Receipts 891Last week 3,645Year ago 680

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	895	139.25	139.25
5	—	805	140.50	140.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,030	132.00	132.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	710	149.00	149.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,155	115.00	115.00
7	—	1,050	121.50	121.50
42	—	1,015	120.50–126.75	125.14

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
12	—	690	136.00	136.00
18	—	733	140.00–141.00	140.39
30	—	966	125.50–128.50	127.31
177	—	758	140.75–143.00	141.80
216	—	868	127.00–138.75	136.66
67	—	817	133.50–137.25	136.16
72	—	928	130.00–131.00	130.86

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.