Sale reports / Wyoming / Torrington Livestock Commission Company / 2025-03-12

Torrington Livestock Commission Company

Feeder Cattle · Torrington, Wyoming · Wed, Mar 12
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2103
Receipts
3,285 head
▲ 1,436 vs last sale 1,849▲ 610 vs year ago 2,675 · +22.8%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week; feeder steers and heifers under 750 lbs traded 2.00 to 4.00 higher with instances 12.00 higher on long stings of replacement type heifers or grass type heifers. No test on feeders over 750 lbs to last week. A active market with numbers starting to get shorter in the barn. Several buyers in the seats and a very active internet. Sale again next Wednesday.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $341.08/cwt on 528 head. That ranks 1 of 19 comparable sales and sits −103.92 against this barn's trailing median of $445.00.
Average price
$341.08
528 head · 557 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,899
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
—
single grade reported
vs the market
+0.00
vs WY average
+26.12 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1557341.081,899528
Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale528 hd
341.08
—
WY average1 barns · 528 hd
341.08
+0.00
National average179 barns · 17,787 hd
314.96
+26.12
This barn, trailing median19 sales
445.00
−103.92
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

19 sales
500460420380median 445.0003/0404/0106/2409/3010/28
Heifers 500–600 lb: high $486.37, low $394.00, median $445.00 across 19 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Every lot

23 lots · USDA AMS · Torrington Livestock Feeder Cattle Auction - Torrington, WY
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 · Steers11 lots · lightest first
Steers350–400Medium and Large 1378450.00/cwt450.00–450.001,70119
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1435417.63/cwt415.00–420.001,81768
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1472411.99/cwt405.00–426.001,94570
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1538383.66/cwt379.00–391.002,064108
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1569365.52/cwt360.00–371.002,08099
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1624343.97/cwt335.00–349.002,146224
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1710316.21/cwt310.00–319.002,245147
Steers750–800Medium and Large 1768290.65/cwt285.00–299.002,232197
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1824281.99/cwt275.00–288.502,324106
Steers850–900Medium and Large 1886281.68/cwt272.00–282.502,496116
Steers950–1000Medium and Large 1990260.05/cwt259.00–261.502,57452
Feeder Cattle · Heifers12 lots · lightest first
Heifers300–350Medium and Large 1340422.00/cwt422.00–422.001,43510
Heifers400–450Medium and Large 1427375.60/cwt371.00–385.001,60486
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1485360.37/cwt357.00–366.001,748107
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1527351.12/cwt345.00–364.001,850206
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1576334.66/cwt326.00–339.001,928322
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1613320.39/cwt315.00–325.001,964155
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1662309.61/cwt283.00–318.002,050396
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1704303.85/cwt288.00–324.002,139303
Heifers750–800Medium and Large 1791270.67/cwt270.00–271.002,141105
Heifers800–850Medium and Large 1834259.70/cwt255.00–265.002,166110
Heifers850–900Medium and Large 1861255.00/cwt255.00–255.002,19627
Heifers900–950Medium and Large 1930252.00/cwt252.00–252.002,3447

This sale against other markets

Wyoming weighted averages
One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Wyoming auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.