Regional Cattle Auction Reports...
For Wednesday, November 12th - Updated weekly on Thursday
Reported by the USDA Market News... “Click” links to view entire report
North Central States
Hub City Livestock Auction - Aberdeen SD
This Week: 4,596
Last Reported: 3,011
Last Year: 5,643
Compared to last week: yearlings not well compared. Best test on steer calves 500 to 649 lbs 8.00 to 10.00 higher, 650 to 699 lbs mostly steady. Best test on heifers 500 to 599 lbs steady to 3.00 higher. Good to very good demand for yearlings today. Still a few yearlings coming off grass, including today's feature string of 500 steers.
Bassett Livestock Auction - Bassett NE
This Week: 4,180
Last Reported: 1,625
Last Year: 3,520
Today's auction started the day early selling 700 weigh-ups. Yearling offerings followed with high demand and finished the day with weaned and non-weaned Spring calves. Compared with last week steers calves traded sharply higher, with a limited number of heifer calves to compare.
Huss Livestock Market - Kearney NE
This Week: 2,470
Last Reported: 2,515
Last Year: 2,327
Compared to last week steer calves 400-750 lbs sold steady to 20.00 higher and heifer calves 450-750 sold 15.00 to 30.00 higher. Demand was good from the buyers in the crowd with internet activity noticed. Some of the packages of calves were weaned and around 250 head had received spring shots only that were coming off their mothers, the balance had received fall vaccinations.
South Central States
OKC West - El Reno OK
This Week: 7,815
Last Reported: 4,611
Last Year: 7,951
Compared to last week: Feeder steers over 850lbs steady, under 850lbs 10.00-14.00 higher. Feeder heifers 10.00-15.00 higher. Steer calves over 500lbs unevenly steady, under 500lbs to light to test. Heifer calves under 500lbs 10.00-15.00 higher. Heifers calves 500-600lbs 3.00-7.00 higher. Demand was good. Today's offering included several packages of steers weighing 700-850 lbs that were 60 days weaned.
Clovis Livestock Auction - Clovis, NM
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Winter Livestock - Dodge City, KS
This Week: 2,097
Last Reported: 1,133
Last Year: 1,490
Compared to last week, steers and heifers over 700 lbs, not enough sold for market test. One lot of 55 reputation steers weighing 923 lbs sold 6.00 higher, 320.50 cwt. Steers and heifers under 700 lbs uneven, sold higher in spots. Reputation and quality brought higher prices. Breaker and Boning utility sold steady while Lean utility sold steady to weak.
Midwest States
Bloomfield Livestock Market - Bloomfield, IA
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Last Year:
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Springfield Livestock Auction - Springfield MO
This Week: 2,922
Last Reported: 698
Last Year: 1,055
Compared to last week, steers sold mostly 20.00 to 30.00 higher, and heifers were 15.00 to 25.00 higher based on limited comparisons from last week's lighter run. Today was a calf and yearling wean-vac special, and there were plenty of high quality consignments of long time weaned yearling cattle with multiple rounds of shots, that created very good demand on a heavy supply. The offering also included a large, high quality run of dairy steers this week.
South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna MO
This Week: 1,704
Last Reported: 892
Last Year: 1,940
Compared to last week, feeder cattle traded mostly 15.00-25.00 higher with spots 30.00-40.00 higher. A very good supply of top end reputation cattle with 20 head of 601-643 pound replacement quality heifers topping out at 417.00. Slaughter cows and bulls were mostly steady.
Southeast
Roanoke Stockyard - Roanoke AL
This Week: 1,019
Last Reported: 1,267
Last Year: 1,406
Compared to one week ago: Feeder cattle sold sharply higher. Slaughter cows sold 3.00 to 6.00 higher, slaughter bulls sold 3.00 lower. Replacement cows and pairs sold mostly steady.
Blue Grass Stockyards - Albany KY
This Week: 493
Last Reported: 660
Last Year: 937
Compared to last week: Feeder steers under 600lbs sold mostly steady with feeder steers over 600lbs 3.00 to 5.00 higher. Feeder heifers sold mostly steady with the exception of the weaned preconditioned packages they sold 4.00 to 6.00 higher. Slaughter cows and bulls sold mostly steady on a lighter test.
