Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2019-09-09

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Sep 9
● Final45 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Feeder Cattle receipts
2,901 head
▲ 671 vs last sale 2,230▲ 2,901 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
100 head
▼ 35 vs last sale 135▲ 100 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to two weeks ago: Feeder steers 5.00 to 10.00 lower, feeder heifers 3.00 to 7.00 lower. Demand moderate for this nice offering of high quality, attractive, strings of yearling steers and heifers. Several long strings of steers and heifers offered in full loads and multiple load lots in a light to moderate flesh condition, some off grass. Cattle feeders have been hammered by much lower cash fed cattle prices and now a futures complex that continues to plummet even further. This negativity is making it very difficult to discern at what price level feeder cattle should be bought at. In spite of these challenging conditions there were plenty of buyers at the auction ready to buy these yearlings, yet they were very cautious in their pursuit of the market. Slaughter cows steady to weak, bulls steady.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $131.15/cwt on 1,862 head.
Average price
$131.15
1,862 head · 844 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,107
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$187
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Large 1
$19.62/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.71
vs SD average

Price by quality 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1832132.181,1001,753
Medium and Large 1-2790122.5796814thin
Medium and Large 2716117.0083816thin
Large 11,143112.561,28679
One grade step is worth $19.62/cwt here — about −$187 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 sale1,862 hd
131.15
—
SD average5 barns · 8,823 hd
127.44
+3.71
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—Low1,77079.551,4088thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,59772.101,15128
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,28263.7581720
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,13452.8659927

Every lot

45 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 · Steers20 lots · lightest first
Steers—Medium and Large 1468164.00/cwt164.00–164.007688
Steers—Medium and Large 1629147.78/cwt147.50–148.0093030
Steers—Medium and Large 1678139.00/cwt139.00–139.009426
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed693138.00/cwt138.00–138.009566
Steers—Medium and Large 2716117.00/cwt117.00–117.0083816
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy717120.00/cwt120.00–120.008605
Steers—Medium and Large 1727136.07/cwt129.00–139.50989288
Steers—Medium and Large 1766134.03/cwt130.00–135.001,027103
Steers—Medium and Large 1825134.72/cwt128.75–136.001,111495
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy835127.00/cwt127.00–127.001,06080
Steers—Medium and Large 1860129.34/cwt127.75–133.001,112300
Steers—Medium and Large 1-2863111.00/cwt111.00–111.009588
Steers—Medium and Large 1918129.92/cwt126.00–132.001,193291
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy937120.50/cwt120.50–120.501,12989
Steers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy964113.00/cwt113.00–113.001,0896
Steers—Medium and Large 1971128.50/cwt128.50–128.501,24852
Steers—Large 1Fleshy1,006118.00/cwt118.00–118.001,1879
Steers—Large 1Fleshy1,087114.67/cwt111.00–116.501,24624
Steers—Large 11,103117.00/cwt117.00–117.001,2918
Steers—Large 1Fleshy1,219109.00/cwt109.00–109.001,32938
Feeder Cattle · Heifers17 lots · lightest first
Heifers—Medium and Large 1468152.50/cwt152.50–152.507144
Heifers—Medium and Large 1528137.89/cwt135.00–141.0072812
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2553125.00/cwt125.00–125.006916
Heifers—Medium and Large 1583130.00/cwt130.00–130.0075814
Heifers—Medium and Large 1614128.48/cwt124.00–136.0078932
Heifers—Medium and Large 1681130.36/cwt125.00–134.0088880
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy699119.00/cwt119.00–119.008325
Heifers—Medium and Large 1724132.23/cwt129.00–137.00957166
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy751122.00/cwt122.00–122.0091629
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2769123.50/cwt123.50–123.509507
Heifers—Medium and Large 1772129.83/cwt128.00–132.251,00232
Heifers—Medium and Large 1829130.50/cwt121.50–133.001,082267
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy830112.49/cwt105.00–115.0093420
Heifers—Medium and Large 1856118.50/cwt118.50–118.501,01416
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy857112.00/cwt112.00–112.009607
Heifers—Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy947105.00/cwt105.00–105.0099423
Heifers—Medium and Large 1Fleshy1,098100.00/cwt100.00–100.001,09812
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls——1,60976.51/cwt73.00–78.001,2314
Bulls——1,93082.59/cwt80.00–84.501,5944
Slaughter Cattle · Cows6 lots · lightest first
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,04248.81/cwt43.00–54.0050911
Cows—Lean 85-90%1,19755.65/cwt54.00–57.0066616
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,23062.00/cwt62.00–62.007631
Cows—Boner 80-85%1,28263.75/cwt59.50–67.0081720
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,51068.02/cwt66.50–69.501,0276
Cows—Breaker 75-80%1,63973.74/cwt70.75–77.501,20921

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.