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Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Name: Sioux Falls Regional Livestock livestock auction prices — 2026-03-16
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2026-03-16

Feeder Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Mon, Mar 16

● Final18 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2026

← Mar 9Mar 16Mar 23 →

Receipts

786 head

▼ 621 vs last sale 1,407▼ 1,667 vs year ago 2,453 · −68.0%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Too few comparable weights of feeder steers and heifers to make a good comparison. A lighter offering this week as a severe winter storm moved across the area over the weekend making for impossible travel conditions throughout the day on Sunday. A few long strings of yearling steers and heifers, offered in full loads and multiple load lots, along with a few small consignments of lighter cattle. The market was pretty active for the packages of light cattle. The market on the yearlings was moderately active, cattle feeders are feeling pressured from new resistance in the fat cattle market and need to buy cattle with lower breakeven prices. Flesh condition of yearlings moderate to heavy.

Weight class — the figures below change to match

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb heifers averaged $431.74/cwt on 19 head, up $12.00 from the prior sale. That ranks 18 of 25 comparable sales and sits +17.16 against this barn's trailing median of $414.58.

Average price

$431.74

▲ 12.00 vs prior sale

19 head · 531 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,294

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

−$15

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

$13.94/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+3.91

vs SD average

+15.62 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	528	433.94	2,291	16thin
Medium and Large 1-2	549	420.00	2,306	3thin

One grade step is worth $13.94/cwt here — about −$15 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 sale19 hd

431.74

—

SD average6 barns · 494 hd

427.83

+3.91

National average164 barns · 8,069 hd

416.12

+15.62

This barn, trailing median25 sales

414.58

+17.16

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

25 sales

Heifers 500–600 lb: high $484.12, low $359.91, median $414.58 across 25 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

18 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.

Class	Weight	Grade / description	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Feeder Cattle · Steers10 lots · lightest first
Steers	400–450	Medium and Large 1	411	590.00/cwt	590.00–590.00	2,425	6
Steers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	464	535.00/cwt	535.00–535.00	2,482	5
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed	546	460.00/cwt	460.00–460.00	2,512	9
Steers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	547	471.00/cwt	471.00–471.00	2,576	13
Steers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	673	402.50/cwt	402.50–402.50	2,709	11
Steers	700–750	Medium and Large 1	710	387.00/cwt	387.00–387.00	2,748	12
Steers	850–900	Medium and Large 1	851	342.00/cwt	342.00–342.00	2,910	9
Steers	950–1000	Medium and Large 1	952	314.00/cwt	314.00–314.00	2,989	7
Steers	1000–1050	Large 1	1,012	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	3,087	60
Steers	1050–1100	Large 1	1,098	294.50/cwt	294.50–294.50	3,234	195
Feeder Cattle · Heifers7 lots · lightest first
Heifers	400–450	Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed	444	485.00/cwt	485.00–485.00	2,153	6
Heifers	450–500	Medium and Large 1	462	480.00/cwt	480.00–480.00	2,218	5
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1	528	433.94/cwt	432.50–435.00	2,291	16
Heifers	500–550	Medium and Large 1-2	549	420.00/cwt	420.00–420.00	2,306	3
Heifers	650–700	Medium and Large 1	664	358.37/cwt	353.00–360.00	2,380	13
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1	939	298.88/cwt	292.00–306.00	2,806	255
Heifers	900–950	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	949	286.00/cwt	286.00–286.00	2,714	99
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls	550–600	Medium and Large 2Thin Fleshed	584	370.00/cwt	370.00–370.00	2,161	5

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 →

Sioux Falls Regional Cattle Auction - Worthing, SD

Mon Mar 16, 2026

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

Receipts 786Last week 1,407Year ago 2,453

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Medium and Large 2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	584	370.00	370.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
99	900–950	949	286.00	286.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
5	450–500	462	480.00	480.00
16	500–550	528	432.50–435.00	433.94
13	650–700	664	353.00–360.00	358.37
255	900–950	939	292.00–306.00	298.88

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	500–550	549	420.00	420.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	444	485.00	485.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	411	590.00	590.00
5	450–500	464	535.00	535.00
13	500–550	547	471.00	471.00
11	650–700	673	402.50	402.50
12	700–750	710	387.00	387.00
9	850–900	851	342.00	342.00
7	950–1000	952	314.00	314.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
9	500–550	546	460.00	460.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
60	1000–1050	1,012	305.00	305.00
195	1050–1100	1,098	294.50	294.50

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.