Sale reports / South Dakota / Mobridge Livestock Exchange / 2021-02-18

Mobridge Livestock Exchange

Name: Mobridge Livestock Exchange livestock auction prices — 2021-02-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2021-02-18

Feeder Cattle · Mobridge, South Dakota · Thu, Feb 18

● Final22 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2025

← Feb 11Feb 18Feb 25 →

Receipts

1,717 head

▼ 2,172 vs last sale 3,889▼ 2,217 vs year ago 3,934 · −56.4%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: best test on steers 700 to 750 lbs and 800 to 850 lbs mostly steady. Best test on heifers 600 to 650 lbs steady. Good demand for today's offering of packages and a handful of loads of home raised cattle. Flesh today mostly light to moderate plus, less flesh overall on the cattle than last week. This week's sale offered more light fleshed, light weight cattle which may be suitable for grass, these cattle see very good demand, especially those sold in loads. Quality mostly attractive today. An active market with a more limited crowd of buyers attending the sale today. Temperatures have finally warmed above zero and the next week looks to have temps in the upper 30's and some 40's giving livestock and producers some relief. Next feeder cattle sale is Thursday, February 25.

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 $152.40/cwt on 783 head.

Average price

$152.40

783 head · 707 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,077

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$124

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

$19.12/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+6.51

vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	707	152.94	1,081	761
Medium and Large 1-2	715	133.82	956	22

One grade step is worth $19.12/cwt here — about $124 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 sale783 hd

152.40

—

SD average7 barns · 11,298 hd

145.89

+6.51

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

Every lot

22 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 · Steers11 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	387	194.53/cwt	192.00–196.00	753	11
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	479	182.90/cwt	180.00–185.00	876	43
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	591	171.90/cwt	166.00–173.00	1,016	125
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	620	136.00/cwt	136.00–136.00	843	6
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	628	157.22/cwt	149.50–163.00	987	65
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	650	157.00/cwt	157.00–157.00	1,021	5
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	723	147.58/cwt	144.50–151.00	1,067	248
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	750	133.00/cwt	133.00–133.00	998	16
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	765	146.75/cwt	146.75–146.75	1,123	70
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	807	141.21/cwt	138.00–143.25	1,140	163
Steers	—	Medium and Large 1	985	129.00/cwt	129.00–129.00	1,271	31
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	385	163.00/cwt	163.00–163.00	628	15
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	472	161.38/cwt	150.00–165.00	762	96
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	485	145.00/cwt	145.00–145.00	703	4
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	543	156.30/cwt	146.00–158.50	849	28
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	577	151.38/cwt	149.50–157.00	873	74
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	621	141.41/cwt	132.00–145.00	878	110
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	685	133.50/cwt	133.50–133.50	914	11
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1-2	690	129.50/cwt	129.50–129.50	894	6
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	717	135.09/cwt	127.50–137.50	969	138
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	776	130.64/cwt	129.00–133.00	1,014	117
Heifers	—	Medium and Large 1	835	124.00/cwt	124.00–124.00	1,035	21

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 18, 2021

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

Receipts 1,717Last week 3,889Year ago 3,934

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	685	133.50	133.50
21	—	835	124.00	124.00
28	—	543	146.00–158.50	156.30
74	—	577	149.50–157.00	151.38
96	—	472	150.00–165.00	161.38
110	—	621	132.00–145.00	141.41
117	—	776	129.00–133.00	130.64
138	—	717	127.50–137.50	135.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	485	145.00	145.00
6	—	690	129.50	129.50
15	—	385	163.00	163.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	985	129.00	129.00
70	—	765	146.75	146.75
163	—	807	138.00–143.25	141.21
248	—	723	144.50–151.00	147.58
5	—	650	157.00	157.00
43	—	479	180.00–185.00	182.90
65	—	628	149.50–163.00	157.22
11	—	387	192.00–196.00	194.53
125	—	591	166.00–173.00	171.90

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	—	620	136.00	136.00
16	—	750	133.00	133.00

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.