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Sioux Falls Regional Livestock

Name: Sioux Falls Regional Livestock livestock auction prices — 2024-12-18
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-12-18

Slaughter Cattle · Worthing, South Dakota · Wed, Dec 18

● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2016

← Dec 11Dec 18Dec 31 →

Receipts

1,090 head

▼ 302 vs last sale 1,392▼ 120 vs year ago 1,210 · −9.9%

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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Slaughter steers 4.00 to 5.00 higher, heifers 2.00 to 4.00 higher. Holstein steers not well compared. Very good demand for this nice offering of very high quality grading steers and heifers. The weights of steers and heifers remain very heavy, but that does not deter packer buyers as these cattle are extremely high quality. The market was very active, mixed colored cattle and odd lots sold just as easily as the full loads. Dressed cost looks to be around that 310.00 mark, lower CME Live Cattle futures didn't affect the price at the auction.

Traditional weight slaughter lambs steady to 2.00 higher, non-traditional weights 10.00 to 30.00 higher, except 90-100 lbs 20.00 lower. Very good demand for all weights of slaughter lambs, many long strings in the offering, with several half loads and 1 full load of lambs. Slaughter ewes 5.00 to 10.00 lower. Good demand for the replacement 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
Beef/Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,566	191.43	2,998	56
Dairy Steers	Choice	Average	1,703	168.02	2,861	17
Heifers	Choice	Average	1,389	194.24	2,698	325
Steers	Select and Choice	Average	1,371	195.16	2,676	17
Steers	Choice	Average	1,538	194.72	2,995	313

Every lot

17 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 · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceReturn to Feed	1,200	207.00/cwt	207.00–207.00	2,484	4
Steers	—	Choice	1,414	191.00/cwt	191.00–191.00	2,701	25
Steers	—	Select and ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,424	191.52/cwt	191.00–192.00	2,727	13
Steers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,433	195.36/cwt	195.00–195.50	2,800	17
Steers	—	Choice	1,438	193.95/cwt	193.00–194.25	2,789	38
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,469	194.72/cwt	193.00–195.00	2,860	47
Steers	—	Choice	1,546	194.83/cwt	194.00–196.00	3,012	39
Steers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,583	195.67/cwt	192.00–197.00	3,097	93
Steers	—	ChoiceHeavy Weight	1,675	195.06/cwt	194.50–195.25	3,267	54
Slaughter Cattle · Heifers4 lots · lightest first
Heifers	—	ChoiceNatural	1,282	192.24/cwt	191.00–193.50	2,465	15
Heifers	—	Choice	1,372	194.09/cwt	191.00–195.50	2,663	197
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,422	195.17/cwt	192.00–197.00	2,775	102
Heifers	—	ChoiceCertified Prgms	1,539	191.00/cwt	191.00–191.00	2,939	11
Slaughter Cattle · Beef/Dairy Steers3 lots · lightest first
Beef/Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,436	189.00/cwt	189.00–189.00	2,714	8
Beef/Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,568	190.30/cwt	187.00–191.00	2,984	25
Beef/Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,609	193.50/cwt	193.50–193.50	3,113	23
Slaughter Cattle · Dairy Steers1 lot · lightest first
Dairy Steers	—	Choice	1,703	168.02/cwt	166.00–173.00	2,861	17

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 Livestock Auction - Worthing, SD

Wed Dec 18, 2024

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

Receipts 1,090Last week 1,392Year ago 1,210

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
39	—	1,546	194.00–196.00	194.83
38	—	1,438	193.00–194.25	193.95
25	—	1,414	191.00	191.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
93	—	1,583	192.00–197.00	195.67
47	—	1,469	193.00–195.00	194.72

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Heavy Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
54	—	1,675	194.50–195.25	195.06

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Return to Feed$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,200	207.00	207.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,424	191.00–192.00	191.52

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,433	195.00–195.50	195.36

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Beef/Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
23	—	1,609	193.50	193.50
8	—	1,436	189.00	189.00
25	—	1,568	187.00–191.00	190.30

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Natural$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,282	191.00–193.50	192.24

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
197	—	1,372	191.00–195.50	194.09

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice · Certified Prgms$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,539	191.00	191.00
102	—	1,422	192.00–197.00	195.17

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	1,703	166.00–173.00	168.02

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.