light 7-weight M&L 1 heifers$149.00/cwt≈ $1,089/hd at 731 lb · 12 head
Receipts
Head
This sale
Last sale
Last year
Total receipts
2,834
1,740
1,594
Feeder cattle
295
—
517
Slaughter cattle
1,828
1,331
822
Replacement cattle
711
409
255
Market comments — USDA reporter
Compared to last Mondays sale: Feeder cattle were too lightly tested to develop any market trend. Weigh up cows sold on light to moderate demand for heavy offerings. Slaughter cows sold mostly steady to 2.00 lower on boning and lean cows, breaking cows were not well tested. Packer buyers opted to send only poor quality or lame cows to immediate harvest this week as they purchased the majority of the cow offering to feed. Feeding cows sold on a two tier market. Boning flesh cows, which are usually purchased to feed to premium white, sold mostly 2.00-4.00 lower. Lean feeding cows sold steady to weak as more feeding buyers were on hand looking for this type of cow. Many thin cows are being turned out on corn stalks or put on a holding ration until packers can catch up on seasonally large harvest numbers. Weigh up conditions were mostly average to below average today. Cows with favorable weigh up conditions sold with the best demand. Slaughter bulls sold generally steady on a much more attractive offering. Young age cows suitable to rebreed were too lightly tested last week to develop an accurate market trend, higher to sharply higher undertones were noticed. Quality this week was attractive to very attractive as many sets of one iron home raised young cows sold.
USDA feeder grades describe frame size and muscle thickness, not quality of
the individual animal. "Medium and Large" is the frame score; the number is
muscle (1 = heaviest muscled). "Medium and Large 1–2" pens mix both muscle
scores — common across the Southeast.
What is $/cwt?
Dollars per hundredweight — per 100 lb of animal. A 500-lb calf at
$450/cwt brings 5 × $450 = $2,250. Lighter cattle usually bring more per
cwt but less per head.
Why are some prices per head?
Bred cows, cow-calf pairs, and some replacement classes sell by the
head, not by weight. We show those exactly as USDA reports them — a
$/head figure is never converted into $/cwt on this site.
Where do these numbers come from?
From the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's Livestock Market News —
federal reporters at the sale. We publish each report in full and link the
official USDA document at the top of the page.
Cattle Market
Compared to last Mondays sale: Feeder cattle were too lightly tested to develop any market trend. Weigh up cows sold on light to moderate demand for heavy offerings. Slaughter cows sold mostly steady to 2.00 lower on boning and lean cows, breaking cows were not well tested. Packer buyers opted to send only poor quality or lame cows to immediate harvest this week as they purchased the majority of the cow offering to feed. Feeding cows sold on a two tier market. Boning flesh cows, which are usually purchased to feed to premium white, sold mostly 2.00-4.00 lower. Lean feeding cows sold steady to weak as more feeding buyers were on hand looking for this type of cow. Many thin cows are being turned out on corn stalks or put on a holding ration until packers can catch up on seasonally large harvest numbers. Weigh up conditions were mostly average to below average today. Cows with favorable weigh up conditions sold with the best demand. Slaughter bulls sold generally steady on a much more attractive offering. Young age cows suitable to rebreed were too lightly tested last week to develop an accurate market trend, higher to sharply higher undertones were noticed. Quality this week was attractive to very attractive as many sets of one iron home raised young cows sold.