The Morning Wire / Missouri / Mon Nov 2, 2026

Missouri cattle market

The trading day in one page — Mon, Nov 2

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Summary

Mon, Nov 2

Choice cutout held near $365.04. 4 Missouri barns reported 246 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Missouri, week of Nov 2 USDA

Weighted across every reported lot, by weight class. Weekly rather than daily — one day's barns are too thin a base for a state figure. Watch the barn count: a weight class carried by one or two barns is a thin figure, not a market.

Weight	Price	vs prior week	Head	Barns
300-399 lb	484.42/cwt	$22.81 lower	68	3
400-499 lb	429.64/cwt	$35.55 lower	457	3
500-599 lb	392.04/cwt	$21.89 lower	877	3
600-699 lb	365.74/cwt	$16.48 lower	757	3
700-799 lb	347.17/cwt	$11.54 lower	592	3
800-899 lb	334.09/cwt	$8.22 lower	1,093	3

Barn by barn, 500–599 lb steers

Same day, same class USDA

Every barn that sold at least 20 head of this class on Mon, Nov 2, weighted by head. Spread of $43.53 between the top and bottom of 3 barns. An average moves with the cattle that showed up as much as with the buyers in the seats — a yard with better grade will average higher on the same demand. This is where the money landed, not a verdict on the barn.

Barn	State	Average	Head
Tina Livestock	MO	421.57/cwt	92
Callaway Livestock Center	MO	409.98/cwt	259
Joplin Regional Stockyards	MO	378.05/cwt	526

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Nov 2 USDA

Choice $365.04, $0.38 higher. Select $354.94, $2.96 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $10.10. 81 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

20,615 head traded Oct 24–Oct 30.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	354.75	2,433
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed FOB	355.00	256
Iowa-Minnesota	Live Delivered	224.25	42
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	223.10	7,537
Nebraska	Dressed Delivered	350.34	5,800
Nebraska	Dressed FOB	352.57	1,130

At the Missouri barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Close Compared to last week feeder steers sold steady to 10.00 lower. Feeder heifers under 600 lbs. sold steady to 8.00 higher. Heavier weights sold 6.00-12.00 lower. Supply and demand was moderate. Today's offering contained a lot of plain type of cattle.
Joplin Regional Stockyards · Missouri

Compared to last week, steer and heifer calves under 600 lbs traded mostly 5.00-10.00 lower, with 6 and 7 weight steers not well tested on limited comparisons and were mostly calves, over 800 lb feeder steers were not tested with last week's scarce offering over 800 lbs.
Callaway Livestock Center · Missouri

Compared to last week 60 head of 896 pound steers sold for $331.00 with no recent test. Steer calves were not well tested with last weeks market. Heifer calves traded mostly steady.Slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady with mostly average and low dessing cows
Tina Livestock · Missouri

Compared to last week, slaughter cows sold 1.00 to 4.00 lower, and slaughter bulls were 3.00 to 5.00 lower. A large offering of replacement cattle this week with multiple herd sell outs including a Dexter herd as well as many young open cows that went back to farms.
Springfield Livestock Marketing Center · Missouri

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	247.07/cwt	$0.76 lower	650
Boner (85% lean)	246.21/cwt	$0.09 lower	1,868
Cutter (90% lean)	250.77/cwt	$1.97 lower	4,086
Premium White	265.26/cwt	$4.52 higher	1,074
Bull (92% lean)	304.17/cwt	$3.39 lower	406

Reports published

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Source: USDA AMS. Feeder prices and barn comment are Missouri only; boxed beef, fed cattle and the cow market are national, because those markets are. Every figure is USDA's as filed, and the direction words — higher, lower, steady— follow the arithmetic rather than an opinion. Quoted comment is the work of USDA market reporters, credited to the sale it came from. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of USDA data, not a copy of USDA's document and not endorsed by USDA.