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Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Name: Sioux Falls Regional Livestock livestock auction prices — 2020-04-29
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-04-29

Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Wed, Apr 29

● Final15 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2016

← Apr 22Apr 29May 6 →

Receipts

650 head

▲ 151 vs last sale 499▲ 650 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Slaughter steers and heifers 5.00 to 10.00 lower, Holstein steers 2.00 to 4.00 lower. Light demand this week, few packer buyers participating. A shorter, yet very high quality, run of steers and heifers this week. Market activity slow with few bids to be found as slaughter rates are reduced at the packing plants and few buyers present at the sale. Two and a half loads of steers, balance small packages, 5 loads of heifers with balance packages. The cattle offered were high quality grading, rather clean, and in a fair weighing condition making an estimated dressed cost of 145.00-150.00. CME Live Cattle futures are not giving any meaningful indication of what the market can expect this week or in coming weeks as the positive basis is extremely wide from the bargain basement prices the futures are predicting. Boxed beef continues to skyrocket, Choice boxes currently 347.80 yet cattle feeders are faced with devastating losses and left wondering how they will survive. Slaughter cows 3.00 to 5.00 higher. Bulls too lightly tested recently for a comparison.

Slaughter lambs of a traditional weight (over 100 lbs) 20.00 to 30.00 higher, non-traditional lambs (under 100 lbs) fully 30.00 to 40.00 lower. Slaughter ewes 5.00 to 10.00 higher. Feeder lambs 20.00 to 30.00 lower. Much improved demand for the heavy slaughter lambs, only moderate for the light lambs. Very good demand for slaughter ewes. Moderate to good demand for feeder lambs as there were many farmer feeders active this week. A very large offering of lambs under 100 lbs which saw lamb feeders competing with packer buyers to get them bought but still the market was sharply lower. Good demand for the replacement ewes offered.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt

Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Bulls	—	Average	1,768	84.80	1,499	4thin
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,720	57.93	996	31
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,603	56.91	912	52
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,396	55.97	781	23
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,357	52.48	712	11
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,468	71.79	1,054	41
Dairy Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,428	65.00	928	4thin
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,330	89.94	1,196	223
Steers	Choice	Average	1,464	91.57	1,340	155

Every lot

15 lots · USDA AMS · Sioux Falls Regional Livestock 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
Slaughter Cattle · Steers2 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Choice	1,438	92.09/cwt	90.50–92.75	1,324	114
Steers	—	Choice	1,536	90.12/cwt	87.75–92.00	1,384	41
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers1 lot · lightest first
Heifers	—	Choice	1,330	89.94/cwt	85.00–91.00	1,196	223
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls2 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,605	84.07/cwt	80.00–86.00	1,349	3
Bulls	—	—	2,255	87.00/cwt	87.00–87.00	1,962	1
Slaughter Cattle · Cows8 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,240	41.99/cwt	41.00–43.00	521	2
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,382	56.32/cwt	53.00–58.50	778	20
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,383	54.81/cwt	53.50–55.50	758	9
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,485	51.00/cwt	51.00–51.00	757	2
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,490	59.00/cwt	59.00–59.00	879	1
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,520	52.42/cwt	51.00–53.00	797	3
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,608	57.18/cwt	54.50–60.50	919	49
Cows	—	Premium White 65-75%	1,720	57.93/cwt	55.00–60.00	996	31
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers2 lots · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,428	65.00/cwt	65.00–65.00	928	4
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,468	71.79/cwt	70.50–74.00	1,054	41

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.

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Sioux Falls Regional Livestock Auction - Worthing, SD

Wed Apr 29, 2020

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

Receipts 650Last week 499Year ago 0

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,520	51.00–53.00	52.42
49	—	1,608	54.50–60.50	57.18

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,720	55.00–60.00	57.93

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	1,383	53.50–55.50	54.81
2	—	1,240	41.00–43.00	41.99

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
20	—	1,382	53.00–58.50	56.32
2	—	1,485	51.00	51.00
1	—	1,490	59.00	59.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,605	80.00–86.00	84.07
1	—	2,255	87.00	87.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,428	65.00	65.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
41	—	1,468	70.50–74.00	71.79

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
114	—	1,438	90.50–92.75	92.09
41	—	1,536	87.75–92.00	90.12

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
223	—	1,330	85.00–91.00	89.94

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.