Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2019-05-13

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, May 13
● Final34 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Feeder Cattle receipts
1,105 head
▼ 1,382 vs last sale 2,487▲ 1,105 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
60 head
▼ 15 vs last sale 75▲ 60 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers 3.00 to 5.00 lower, with instances to 10.00 lower. Light to moderate demand for this lighter offering of feeder cattle, best demand for light fleshed cattle for backgrounding. A few long strings of backgrounded yearling steers and heifers offered in full loads and multiple load lots, balance smaller packages of home-raised steers and heifers. The market activity was slow to moderate as CME Live and Cattle futures over 2.00 lower. These continued losses in the futures complex have cattle feeders extremely concerned and they are approaching the feeder cattle market very cautiously. Flesh condition light to moderate plus, the home-raised cattle that were strictly hay fed are in a very light flesh condition and look rough in appearance as the winter was long and harsh and spring has been cool and wet. Slaughter cows steady to instances of 2.00 higher than Wednesday's sale, bulls rather steady.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $128.80/cwt on 587 head.
Average price
$128.80
587 head · 754 lb average
Value per head Derived
$971
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$369
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Medium and Large 1
$24.39/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−6.37
vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2403152.3361420
Medium and Large 2550131.007215thin
Medium and Large 1769127.94983562
One grade step is worth $24.39/cwt here — about −$369 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 sale587 hd
128.80
—
SD average6 barns · 5,867 hd
135.17
−6.37
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Average2,06184.061,7324thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,60064.201,02711
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,24861.2976522
CowsLean 85-90%High1,15150.5858217

Every lot

34 lots · USDA AMS · Sioux Falls Regional Cattle Auction - Worthing, 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.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers12 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed383200.00/cwt200.00–200.007665
Steers—Medium and Large 2419160.00/cwt160.00–160.006705
Steers—Medium and Large 1488184.00/cwt184.00–184.0089818
Steers—Medium and Large 1513170.52/cwt165.00–176.0087512
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2522174.47/cwt174.00–175.0091117
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2559167.00/cwt167.00–167.009347
Steers—Medium and Large 1565179.00/cwt179.00–179.001,01122
Steers—Medium and Large 1616166.00/cwt166.00–166.001,0236
Steers—Medium and Large 1654156.00/cwt156.00–156.001,02024
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy797133.50/cwt133.50–133.501,06470
Steers—Medium and Large 1887127.00/cwt127.00–127.001,12665
Steers—Medium and Large 1915127.50/cwt127.50–127.501,167116
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2303167.00/cwt167.00–167.005066
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Guaranteed Open410158.00/cwt158.00–158.006486
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2446146.04/cwt141.00–151.0065114
Heifers—Medium and Large 1453166.00/cwt166.00–166.0075211
Heifers—Medium and Large 1523152.20/cwt146.00–154.0079640
Heifers—Medium and Large 2550131.00/cwt131.00–131.007215
Heifers—Medium and Large 1575147.37/cwt144.00–150.0084722
Heifers—Medium and Large 1689128.19/cwt125.00–131.0088338
Heifers—Medium and Large 1745130.11/cwt127.00–131.25969105
Heifers—Medium and Large 1785125.25/cwt125.25–125.25983113
Heifers—Medium and Large 1827123.50/cwt123.50–123.501,021132
Heifers—Medium and Large 1933113.80/cwt113.25–115.001,06295
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls—Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed649140.00/cwt140.00–140.009098
Feeder Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers—Large 370670.00/cwt70.00–70.004945
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls——2,06184.06/cwt82.50–85.001,7324
Slaughter Cattle · Cows7 lots · lightest first
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,05561.00/cwt61.00–61.006441
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,14647.79/cwt43.00–51.5054813
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,16554.00/cwt54.00–54.006291
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,20559.22/cwt55.50–63.507143
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,25261.64/cwt54.00–67.0077221
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,57466.38/cwt64.00–72.001,0457
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,64560.38/cwt59.00–62.009934

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.