Sale reports / South Dakota / Sioux Falls Regional Livestock / 2025-12-15

Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Dec 15
● Final58 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026
Receipts
6,062 head
▲ 830 vs last sale 5,232▲ 497 vs year ago 5,565 · +8.9%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Steer calves 10.00 to 20.00 higher, instances to 30.00 higher on weights under 550 lbs, heifer calves 10.00 to 20.00 higher. Yearling steers steady to 3.00 higher, yearling heifers unevenly steady. Very good demand for this very large offering of spring born steer and heifer calves, good demand for the strings of yearling steers and heifers. After last week's advance in the cattle futures contracts, and reports of 232.00 cash fat cattle top in Iowa last week, cattle feeders were much more optimistic than they have been in recent months. Plenty of buyers on the seats, ready to battle it out, to buy these good home raised calves and backgrounded yearlings. Flesh condition of calves was rather attractive as the weather has been cold, and the weekly storms have kept calves from getting too fleshy as it's been tough to keep cattle dry. Flesh condition of yearlings moderate plus to heavy. The market was extremely active on calves, the calf market has just about fully recovered and returned to the levels before it crashed in the middle of October. The yearling market was active as there were some long strings offered in multiple load lots that allowed buyers to make uniform pens.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb steers averaged $471.32/cwt on 617 head. That ranks 12 of 23 comparable sales and sits −2.65 against this barn's trailing median of $473.97.
Average price
$471.32
617 head · 552 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,600
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$643
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium 1
$117.94/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.95
vs SD average
+27.22 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1550477.942,626574
Medium and Large 1-2586389.012,28034
Medium 1551360.001,9849thin
One grade step is worth $117.94/cwt here — about $643 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 sale617 hd
471.32
—
SD average5 barns · 2,263 hd
465.37
+5.95
National average163 barns · 16,063 hd
444.10
+27.22
This barn, trailing median23 sales
473.97
−2.65
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

58 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 · Steers33 lots · lightest first
Steers300–350Medium and Large 1332615.00/cwt615.00–615.002,0425
Steers350–400Medium and Large 1380590.34/cwt565.00–640.002,24328
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1430540.33/cwt520.00–580.002,32329
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1468518.32/cwt480.00–542.502,426197
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1-2476455.00/cwt455.00–455.002,16615
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed521525.00/cwt525.00–525.002,735120
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1526494.55/cwt465.00–520.002,601196
Steers550–600Medium 1551360.00/cwt360.00–360.001,9849
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1Fleshy574413.77/cwt410.00–420.002,37513
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1581445.00/cwt425.00–466.002,585245
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1-2586389.01/cwt375.00–410.002,28034
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1Thin Fleshed608461.00/cwt461.00–461.002,80360
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1-2625395.00/cwt395.00–395.002,4696
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1633425.00/cwt385.00–440.002,690266
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1Fleshy641370.00/cwt370.00–370.002,3727
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1669416.11/cwt376.00–437.502,784390
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1-2690378.88/cwt370.00–380.002,61468
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1Fleshy692365.00/cwt365.00–365.002,5269
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1732387.09/cwt365.00–418.002,833297
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1-2754337.00/cwt337.00–337.002,5417
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1Fleshy775324.00/cwt324.00–324.002,51110
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1779373.64/cwt368.00–395.002,911166
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1833358.00/cwt358.00–358.002,98247
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1Fleshy833329.58/cwt325.00–339.002,74553
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1884338.84/cwt334.00–349.002,995304
Steers900–950Medium and Large 1940345.15/cwt339.00–346.003,24465
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1Fleshy951312.50/cwt312.50–312.502,97226
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1975334.23/cwt324.00–339.003,259287
Steers1000–1050Large 11,022326.83/cwt314.00–329.003,340275
Steers1000–1050Large 1-21,031312.00/cwt312.00–312.003,2177
Steers1050–1100Large 1Fleshy1,075321.00/cwt321.00–321.003,45119
Steers1050–1100Large 11,079325.85/cwt325.85–325.853,51692
Steers1100–1150Large 11,123313.00/cwt313.00–313.003,51512
Feeder Cattle · Heifers24 lots · lightest first
Heifers300–350Medium and Large 1336524.64/cwt500.00–570.001,7638
Heifers350–400Medium and Large 1387509.75/cwt495.00–525.001,97330
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1428481.52/cwt445.00–500.002,06162
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1478455.44/cwt435.00–470.002,177186
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1517438.51/cwt405.00–457.502,267172
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1-2579365.00/cwt365.00–365.002,1136
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1Replacement583425.00/cwt425.00–425.002,47821
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1583408.23/cwt365.00–437.502,380396
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1618394.32/cwt368.00–407.502,437170
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1677372.15/cwt358.00–383.002,519290
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1Fleshy683310.16/cwt275.00–350.002,11815
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1Fleshy717324.00/cwt324.00–324.002,3237
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1-2720333.46/cwt325.00–340.002,40118
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1723358.49/cwt343.00–380.002,592248
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1780334.58/cwt328.00–356.002,610108
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1822330.25/cwt320.00–336.002,71553
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1893304.00/cwt304.00–304.002,71527
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1948294.00/cwt294.00–294.002,7876
Heifers950–1000Medium and Large 1Fleshy979279.00/cwt279.00–279.002,731130
Heifers950–1000Medium and Large 1981288.08/cwt280.00–295.002,82624
Heifers1000–1050Large 1Fleshy1,002274.00/cwt274.00–274.002,745124
Heifers1000–1050Large 11,044276.00/cwt276.00–276.002,88170
Heifers1050–1100Large 11,064286.00/cwt286.00–286.003,04316
Heifers1100–1150Large 11,109271.00/cwt271.00–271.003,00540
Feeder Cattle · Beef/Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Beef/Dairy Steers700–750Medium and Large 2731305.00/cwt305.00–305.002,2304

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.