Quality cattle: sale details
- 109 producers sold calves.
- Approximately, 5,000 head were sold (2,050 heifers/2,950 steers).
- Number of head sold per producer ranged from 4 to 571. The average was 46 head/producer.
- 28 buyers bought Health Track cattle that day.
- It was one of the largest sales of source-verified, similar cattle in the nation.
- The average weight and price of all heifers sold was 561 pounds at $91.64/cwt or $514.10/head.
- The average weight and price of all steers sold was 602 pounds at $96.15/cwt or $578.82/head.
- According to USDA Market News Services, MFA's Health Track heifers brought in $3 to $6/cwt more when compared to the sale held at Joplin the day before where 7,000 head of nonweaned, nonsource-verified calves were sold.
- According to USDA Market News Services, MFA's Health Track steers brought in $2 to $5/cwt more when compared to the sale held at Joplin the day before where 7,000 head of nonweaned, nonsource-verified calves were sold.
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