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South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

South Dakota · Weekly summary · Mon, Aug 12

● As filed64 lines reportedUSDA AMS · slug 2027

State summary

Counts as USDA filed them

South Dakota reported 64 priced lines covering 4,823 head across feeder cattle, slaughter cattle. USDA puts feeder cattle receipts at 5,068 head. slaughter cattle receipts at 439 head.

South Dakota Weekly Cattle Auction Summary

Mon Aug 12, 2019

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

Feeder CattleReceipts 5,068Last week 4,857Year ago 0

Slaughter CattleReceipts 439Last week 1,561Year ago 0

Compared to last week: The feeder cattle market was extremely uneven as the sales that were held Fri Aug 9 were dollars higher than the sales held on Monday due to the drastic futures decline that started on Monday. Overall, feeder steers and heifers 3.00 to 8.00 lower except steers over 850 lbs that sold on Friday Aug 9 were 5.00 to 10.00 higher. Demand began the week good to very good but by Monday cattle feeders were rattled and fearful of what would happen in the cash fed cattle market after the annoucement of a fire at the Holcomb, Kansas Tyson beef plant. This annoucement caused a mass exodus out of futures positions, both Live Cattle and Feeder Cattle. Monday saw the board locked down the limit and Tuesday followed that up with expanded limits that quickly locked down. Feeder Cattle contracts fared better and by Wed made a huge move higher but with this type of volatility cattle producers were not willing to offer feeder cattle for sale leaving only two reported sales for the reporting period. Slaughter cows steady to 1.00 lower, bulls 3.00 to 4.00 lower.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
34	—	750	106.00	106.00
21	—	920	114.00	114.00
21	—	871	115.00	115.00
3	—	558	148.00	148.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	740	135.00–140.00	137.48
23	—	696	138.00–139.00	138.44
19	—	638	140.00–145.00	140.76
6	—	873	131.50	131.50
5	—	989	120.00	120.00
5	—	765	138.00	138.00
3	—	913	128.00	128.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,095	111.00	111.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	565	166.00	166.00
27	—	611	167.00	167.00
21	—	728	148.00	148.00
15	—	480	167.00	167.00
922	—	867	144.50–152.25	147.33
814	—	928	132.00–149.75	143.36
639	—	972	125.00–144.75	138.02
195	—	839	142.00–149.75	147.43
134	—	786	143.50–154.50	151.76

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
110	—	1,020	129.25–133.25	131.33
52	—	1,102	126.50	126.50
116	—	1,079	120.00–128.25	125.73

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	754	95.00	95.00
7	—	617	92.00	92.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
35	—	760	101.00–104.00	102.22
29	—	619	101.00–105.00	103.79
19	—	840	108.00	108.00
18	—	725	100.50	100.50
13	—	851	100.00	100.00
7	—	912	111.00	111.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
18	—	622	133.00–135.00	133.44
7	—	816	114.50	114.50
7	—	694	130.00	130.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	861	123.00	123.00
115	—	680	140.50–145.00	143.49
61	—	586	143.00–150.00	147.78
270	—	913	112.00–129.25	122.62
268	—	833	126.00–135.50	132.67
102	—	794	126.00–135.50	129.74
93	—	742	128.00–138.00	136.74

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
43	—	785	124.00–125.00	124.72

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
98	—	1,018	116.50–121.75	119.41

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90% · Light Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	900	57.50	57.50
2	—	878	51.00–54.00	52.55

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	1,175	56.50–60.00	58.46
1	—	1,150	52.50	52.50

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,658	58.00–61.50	59.52
5	—	1,543	67.00–71.00	68.16

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,243	71.00–73.50	71.94
10	—	1,366	64.00–70.00	65.54
8	—	1,268	56.50–59.00	57.91

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	1,211	101.00–103.00	102.81
42	—	1,376	105.00–106.00	105.45

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
30	—	1,277	85.00–99.00	93.26

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
100	—	1,403	81.00–86.50	82.79

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Dairy Steers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
33	—	1,357	65.00–80.00	78.26

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
45	—	1,273	101.00–103.00	102.16

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select and Choice$ per cwt · actual wt
14	—	1,130	100.00	100.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Select$ per cwt · actual wt
2	—	1,015	81.00	81.00

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls — Light Weight$ per cwt · actual wt
3	—	1,342	65.00–76.00	71.38

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
15	—	1,787	84.00–92.00	87.31
9	—	1,672	68.00–83.00	77.51

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.

Source: USDA AMS, as filed — nothing recomputed and nothing rounded. This summary aggregates the same sales the South Dakota barn reports cover, so it must never be added to a state total built from those barns.