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Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Name: Sioux Falls Regional Livestock livestock auction prices — 2020-12-09
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2020-12-09

Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Wed, Dec 9

● Final26 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2016

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Receipts

2,197 head

▲ 217 vs last sale 1,980▼ 48 vs year ago 2,245 · −2.1%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Slaughter steers and heifers 3.00 to 5.00 lower, instances to 6.00 lower on heifers. Holstein steers 3.00 to 5.00 lower. Light to moderate demand for this large offering of hard fed, high quality grading steers and heifers. Packers were much more reserved in their bidding and were determined to buy cattle lower as the boxed beef market declines rapidly. Two way buyers stepped into the breach and helped to keep the market from falling further as they were willing to buy 1500 lbs steers and 1400 lbs heifers that looked to be a value. Weighing conditions ranged from full to fair making an estimated dressed cost of 161.00-166.00. The cattle were predominately clean hided and attractive but found a market that was not very active. Slaughter cows 2.00 to 4.00 lower than Monday’s sale, bulls steady to 2.00 lower.

Slaughter lambs 5.00 to 10.00 lower, except those lambs weighing 100-110 mostly steady. Feeder lambs not well tested to compare with this week. Slaughter ewes steady to firm in a narrow comparison. Moderate demand for this extremely large offering of slaughter lambs, including 4 full loads of lambs of traditional slaughter weights. A large offering of light lambs that looked to be able to go two directions, either straight to slaughter or back to the country to feed and were met with very good demand. Good demand for the packages of replacement quality ewes and ewe lambs. Good demand for the limited offering of slaughter ewes.

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	—	Low	1,873	74.10	1,388	15
Cows	Premium White 65-75%	Average	1,691	63.10	1,067	43
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Average	1,546	56.09	867	45
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,363	50.74	691	50
Cows	Lean 85-90%	Average	1,262	45.32	572	56
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,518	86.21	1,309	35
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,343	101.06	1,358	456
Steers	Select	Average	1,199	112.71	1,351	56
Steers	Select and Choice	Low	1,364	104.39	1,424	159
Steers	Choice	Average	1,550	101.87	1,579	1,018

Every lot

26 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 · Steers10 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,083	115.00/cwt	115.00–115.00	1,245	5
Steers	—	SelectReturn to Feed	1,210	112.48/cwt	106.50–115.00	1,361	51
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,356	106.47/cwt	102.00–110.25	1,444	120
Steers	—	Select and Choice	1,388	98.00/cwt	98.00–98.00	1,360	39
Steers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,414	103.52/cwt	102.50–105.50	1,464	41
Steers	—	Choice	1,442	103.31/cwt	102.00–105.25	1,490	178
Steers	—	Choice	1,535	98.96/cwt	98.00–99.50	1,519	105
Steers	—	Choice	1,554	102.14/cwt	100.00–103.25	1,587	415
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,636	101.47/cwt	100.25–102.50	1,660	272
Steers	—	Choice	1,730	98.75/cwt	98.75–98.75	1,708	7
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers3 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,209	104.50/cwt	104.25–104.60	1,263	54
Heifers	—	Choice	1,361	100.65/cwt	98.50–103.50	1,370	394
Heifers	—	Choice	1,388	98.00/cwt	98.00–98.00	1,360	8
Slaughter Cattle · Bulls3 lots · lightest first
Bulls	—	—	1,848	67.02/cwt	65.00–69.00	1,239	2
Bulls	—	—	1,866	74.13/cwt	69.00–79.00	1,383	11
Bulls	—	—	1,933	81.00/cwt	81.00–81.00	1,566	2
Slaughter Cattle · Cows9 lots · lightest first
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,249	46.33/cwt	44.00–49.00	579	34
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,262	51.61/cwt	51.00–53.00	651	10
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,284	41.93/cwt	39.00–46.00	538	11
Cows	—	Lean 85-90%	1,300	37.20/cwt	32.00–42.00	484	12
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,310	57.42/cwt	56.00–58.50	752	8
Cows	—	Boner 80-85%	1,404	52.15/cwt	46.00–56.00	732	31
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,528	57.94/cwt	52.00–62.00	885	37
Cows	—	Breaker 75-80%	1,630	47.51/cwt	41.00–52.00	774	8
Cows	—	Premium White 65-75%	1,691	63.10/cwt	61.00–67.00	1,067	43
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,518	86.21/cwt	85.00–86.50	1,309	35

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 Dec 9, 2020

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

Receipts 2,197Last week 1,980Year ago 2,245

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
415	—	1,554	100.00–103.25	102.14
7	—	1,730	98.75	98.75
105	—	1,535	98.00–99.50	98.96
178	—	1,442	102.00–105.25	103.31

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
51	—	1,210	106.50–115.00	112.48
5	—	1,083	115.00	115.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
39	—	1,388	98.00	98.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
272	—	1,636	100.25–102.50	101.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
41	—	1,414	102.50–105.50	103.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
120	—	1,356	102.00–110.25	106.47

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
394	—	1,361	98.50–103.50	100.65
8	—	1,388	98.00	98.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,209	104.25–104.60	104.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
37	—	1,528	52.00–62.00	57.94
8	—	1,630	41.00–52.00	47.51

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
31	—	1,404	46.00–56.00	52.15
11	—	1,284	39.00–46.00	41.93
8	—	1,310	56.00–58.50	57.42

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	1,249	44.00–49.00	46.33
10	—	1,262	51.00–53.00	51.61
12	—	1,300	32.00–42.00	37.20

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Premium White 65-75%$ per cwt · actual wt
43	—	1,691	61.00–67.00	63.10

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	1,518	85.00–86.50	86.21

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,848	65.00–69.00	67.02
11	—	1,866	69.00–79.00	74.13
2	—	1,933	81.00	81.00

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.