Regional Cattle Auction Reports...
For Thursday, November 6th - Updated weekly on Friday
Reported by the USDA Market News... “Click” links to view entire report
North Central:
Billings Livestock Commission Cattle Auction - Billings, MT
This Week: 5,916
Last Reported: 4,299
Last Year: 4,615
Compared to last week: Yearling steers and heifers were too lightly tested last week to develop any market trend. Demand for yearlings was light to moderate as quality was plain to average. Steer calves under 550 lbs sold mostly 5.00-8.00 lower. Heifer calves under 500 lbs sold steady to 15.00 lower, heifers 500-599 lbs sold 5.00 to 8.00 lower, heifers over 600 lbs were too lightly tested to develop an accurate market trend, however lower undertones were noticed. Demand for calves was mostly moderate to good for heavy offerings.
Mitchell Livestock Auction – Mitchell SD
This Week: 1,619
Last Reported: 794
Last Year: 2,469
Compared to last week: A nice offering of spring born steer and heifer calves, too few offered a week ago to make a good price comparison with. Too few yearling steers and heifers offered this week to allow a good comparison.
Valentine Livestock Auction - Valentine NE
This Week: 2,930
Last Reported: 3,540
Last Year: 1,685
Today's auction featured Hereford, Black white face, and red angus non-weaned Spring calves. Compared with last week, steers and heifers traded lower, the majority of calves today had spring and fall pre-conditioning shots. Demand was moderate to good.
South Central:
Apache Livestock Auction - Apache, OK
This Week: 2,396
Last Reported: 1,778
Last Year: 1,161
Compared to last week: Feeder steers and feeder heifers mostly 10.00 to 15.00 lower. Steer calves under 450 lbs. 6.00 to 7.00 higher, over 450 lbs. 5.00 to 8.00 lower. Heifer calves 10.00 lower to 10.00 higher. Quality average to attractive with moderate demand. Slaughter cows steady to 1.00 higher. Slaughter bulls 8.00 lower.
Woodward Wtd Avg Cattle - Woodward OK
This Week: 1,418
Last Reported: 788
Last Year: 881
Compared to last week: Feeder steers 10.00 to 20.00 lower. Feeder heifers, no enough last week for an accurate trend. Steer calves mostly steady. Heifer calves 15.00 to 20.00 lower. Demand was moderate. Quality average.
Winter Livestock Auction - Pratt KS
This Week: 3,329
Last Reported: 1,135
Last Year: 2,302
Compared to last week, not enough feeder steers and heifers 600 lb to 950 lb for a market test, however a lower trend was noted. Steer and heifer calves 350 lb to 600 lb sold 10.00 to 30.00 lower, however load lots of reputation calves, and fancy thin calves sold 10.00 to 20.00 higher. Demand was good for thin and fancy calves, moderate otherwise. Slaughter cows sold steady to 2.00 lower. Slaughter bulls sold steady to 2.00 higher.
Farmers & Ranchers Livestock - Salina KS
This Week: 1,909
Last Reported: 1,166
Last Year: 1,970
With 2 light sales in a row, there was no good comparison. Cattle sold steady to slightly lower with good demand. We did just have a good sized "special" sale on Tuesday that had 3000+ head, so some of the cattle were sold earlier this week. The cattle are still predominantly unweaned with little to no price difference as long as they have shots.
Cattleman's Livestock Auction - Dalhart TX
This Week: 1,735
Last Reported: 1,844
Last Year: 876
Compared to last week: There were few comparable sales on calves and feeders to determine a trend, but sentiment followed the board downward. Demand for steers was steady as heifer demand was up and down with better kind of weaned heifers dollaring out higher. Plainer and unweaned or short weaned cattle continue to be in less demand as the price gap grows wider. High yielding slaughter cows were up 2.00 and high yielding bulls brought 8.00 higher.
Producers Livestock Cattle Auction - San Angelo, TX
This Week: 865
Last Reported: 747
Last Year: 907
Compared to last week: Feeder steers sold 15.00-25.00 lower. Feeder heifers under 500 lbs sold 12.00-15.00 higher; offerings over 500 lbs sold 15.00-25.00 lower. Feeder cattle trend comprised on limited comparable sales. Slaughter cows and bulls not well tested last week so trend not applicable. Demand moderate to good.
Midwest:
New Cambria Livestock Market - New Cambria, MO
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Southeast:
Bluegrass Stockyards South - Stanford KY
This Week: 1,694
Last Reported: 827
Last Year: 1,422
Compared to last Thursday: Feeder steers under 400 lbs 10.00-15.00 higher, over 400 lbs 15.00-25.00 lower, Feeder heifers 10.00 to 25.00 lower except 400-500 lbs they were steady to 5.00 higher, Good to moderate demand for feeder and yearling classes. Slaughter cows 2.00-4.00 lower, Slaughter bulls steady, Moderate demand for slaughter classes.
Paris Stockyards - Paris KY
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