Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2025-01-20

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Jan 20
● Final63 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Receipts
6,306 head
▼ 861 vs last sale 7,167▲ 941 vs year ago 5,365 · +17.5%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers unevenly steady. Good demand for this very large offering of high quality feeder cattle. Flesh condition ran heavier this week as more cattle are showing the effects of a dry winter and rather easy growing conditions, for January in the northern plains. The market remains very active but it is flesh dependent, cattle feeders are facing very high breakevens and need cattle to gain as efficiently as possible. The good, green cattle are easy to sell and reach up to last week's prices, but those that are over fleshed have a harder time finding bids. Cash fed cattle up to 206.00 is keeping cattle feeders feeling bullish. A very cold day here, with the daytime high at -10, did not affect the market as there were plenty of buyers ready to buy cattle.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $347.11/cwt on 390 head. That ranks 1 of 23 comparable sales and sits −126.86 against this barn's trailing median of $473.97.
Average price
$347.11
390 head · 549 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,904
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$663
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium 1
$108.36/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−4.97
vs SD average
+6.17 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1550355.861,957319
Medium and Large 1-2552336.701,85848
Medium 1523247.501,29423
One grade step is worth $108.36/cwt here — about $663 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale390 hd
347.11
—
SD average7 barns · 3,207 hd
352.07
−4.97
National average147 barns · 15,667 hd
340.94
+6.17
This barn, trailing median23 sales
473.97
−126.86
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

23 sales
532474416357median 473.9703/0204/0606/0109/1411/02
Steers 500–600 lb: high $518.21, low $371.25, median $473.97 across 23 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

63 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 · Steers36 lots · lightest first
Steers300–350Medium and Large 1334415.00/cwt415.00–415.001,3865
Steers350–400Medium and Large 1377442.40/cwt435.00–450.001,6686
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1Fleshy432380.00/cwt380.00–380.001,6425
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1438415.87/cwt409.00–422.001,82252
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1-2441387.50/cwt387.50–387.501,70912
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1Fleshy463370.00/cwt370.00–370.001,71312
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1-2476370.00/cwt370.00–370.001,76121
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1491382.47/cwt374.00–411.001,87845
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed512392.00/cwt392.00–392.002,00760
Steers500–550Medium 1Fleshy523247.50/cwt247.50–247.501,29423
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1-2527349.95/cwt345.00–360.001,84426
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1531355.01/cwt341.00–363.001,88584
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1Fleshy536342.50/cwt342.50–342.501,8365
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1568349.34/cwt336.00–372.501,984131
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1-2581321.04/cwt318.00–322.501,86522
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1Fleshy591325.67/cwt325.00–328.001,92539
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1620323.60/cwt305.00–335.002,006350
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1675307.57/cwt300.00–319.002,076416
Steers650–700Medium 1681253.34/cwt250.00–282.501,72575
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1Fleshy715275.11/cwt270.00–277.001,96719
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1724293.02/cwt278.00–309.002,121341
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1776283.30/cwt270.00–291.002,198407
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1Fleshy785266.62/cwt266.00–268.002,09336
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1-2795267.00/cwt267.00–267.002,12362
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1825272.06/cwt265.00–277.002,244183
Steers800–850Medium 1829242.00/cwt242.00–242.002,00636
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1Fleshy831254.00/cwt254.00–254.002,11141
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1870274.74/cwt271.00–278.502,390128
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1Fleshy878259.25/cwt259.00–259.502,27647
Steers850–900Medium and Large 2885237.50/cwt237.50–237.502,10225
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1-2894256.00/cwt256.00–256.002,28936
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1930256.10/cwt251.00–260.002,38262
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1-2933249.00/cwt249.00–249.002,32332
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1Fleshy982242.50/cwt242.50–242.502,3816
Steers1000–1050Large 11,012246.00/cwt246.00–246.002,49027
Steers1050–1100Large 11,097246.50/cwt246.50–246.502,70425
Feeder Cattle · Heifers27 lots · lightest first
Heifers300–350Medium and Large 1328410.00/cwt410.00–410.001,3458
Heifers350–400Medium and Large 1385386.51/cwt377.50–402.501,48841
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1Fleshy420347.50/cwt347.50–347.501,4606
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1426365.00/cwt355.00–380.001,55576
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1469345.55/cwt342.50–365.001,621140
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1524330.78/cwt311.00–350.001,733154
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1Fleshy533301.25/cwt295.00–302.501,60630
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1571318.14/cwt290.00–337.501,817247
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1Fleshy578289.04/cwt287.00–293.001,67123
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1628296.20/cwt279.00–314.001,860424
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1Fleshy647277.50/cwt277.50–277.501,79511
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1Replacement667290.00/cwt290.00–290.001,93418
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1672280.05/cwt270.00–290.001,882395
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1Fleshy672248.00/cwt248.00–248.001,66711
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1-2701257.50/cwt257.50–257.501,8055
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1Replacement705280.00/cwt280.00–280.001,97445
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1Fleshy705257.00/cwt257.00–257.001,81219
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1716271.38/cwt262.50–275.001,943348
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1757262.16/cwt256.00–276.001,985240
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1Fleshy788247.30/cwt238.00–253.501,949154
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1821260.00/cwt260.00–260.002,13510
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1Fleshy825240.82/cwt225.00–247.001,98736
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1Fleshy878237.67/cwt236.00–239.002,08745
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1-2901233.00/cwt233.00–233.002,09989
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1902241.13/cwt241.00–243.002,175181
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1Fleshy949235.00/cwt235.00–235.002,23023
Heifers1000–1050Large 1-21,011229.00/cwt229.00–229.002,31567

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.