Livestock Auction Prices: Cattle, Sheep, Goats & Hogs (USDA)
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Livestock Auction Prices: Cattle, Sheep, Goats & Hogs (USDA)
Cattle, feeder cattle, sheep, goats and hogs in one tool: structured price rows from ~700 USDA AMS auction reports, with class, grade, weights, prices, head, dressing, age and stage. No USDA API key. Filter by state, market, commodity and date.
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Livestock Auction Prices: data from USDA AMS Market News (Cattle, Feeder Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Hogs)
Notice: This Actor will be retired on Nov 15, 2026. Until then it runs normally on public, keyless USDA AMS report PDFs.
Published by bigsky-data-tools.
NOT FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL USE: data may be delayed, revised or incomplete; not for trading or compliance decisions; use official USDA AMS Market News reports.
Turns USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News auction reports into clean, structured price rows. Cattle, feeder cattle, sheep, goats and hogs in one tool, from a catalog of about 700 USDA reports. No API key needed, no login. One row per price line.
What you get (one row per price line)
| field | example |
|---|---|
| reportDate | 2026-10-28 |
| market | Public Auction Yards Livestock Cattle Auction - Billings, MT (Wed) |
| state / city | MT / Billings |
| commodity | feeder_cattle, slaughter_cattle, replacement_cattle, sheep, goats, hogs |
| section / class / grade | Slaughter Cattle / Cows / Boner 80-85% |
| head | 386 |
| weightRange, weightLow, weightHigh, avgWeight | 1200-1615, 1200, 1615, 1414 |
| priceRange, priceLow, priceHigh, avgPrice | 135.00-150.00, 135, 150, 143.47 |
| priceUnit / weightBasis | Per Cwt (or Per Unit / Per Head) / Actual Wt |
| dressing | Average / High / Low / Very Low (slaughter classes) |
| age / stage | 2-4 / T2 (replacement cattle, bred stage) |
| notes | Return to Feed, Fleshy, Broken Mouth... |
| reportUrl / reportPage | links to the source USDA report |
How it compares
| This tool | Typical alternatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Species | Cattle, feeder cattle, sheep, goats, hogs | Mostly cattle only |
| Bundled report catalog | About 700 reports | Varies |
| Any USDA report slug, even outside the catalog | Yes | Varies |
| Age and stage (replacement cattle) | Yes | Varies |
Inputs
- states: two-letter codes (e.g.
MT,NE). Empty = all. - markets: USDA report slug IDs (e.g.
1774) or name fragments (Billings,Miles City). Any USDA slug works, even ones outside the bundled catalog. - commodities: filter rows by commodity.
- dateFrom / dateTo: keep only reports whose report date falls in the range.
- maxReports, maxResults.
Example: {"states": ["MT"], "commodities": ["feeder_cattle"], "maxResults": 500}
Pricing
$7 per 1,000 results ($0.007 per price row) plus a $0.01 start fee per run. Use maxResults to cap spend.
Coverage and limits
- Bundled catalog: ~700 USDA auction/livestock reports (about 520 with a parsed state). Montana: Billings PAYS (Wed/Fri), Billings Livestock Commission (Mon/Thu), Miles City, Northern Livestock Video, Billings sheep & goat, and more.
- Each run reads the latest published edition of each report. USDA's no-key public files carry only the current edition, so
dateFrom/dateTofilter on that edition; they do not fetch archived weeks. Schedule the Actor weekly to build history. - Hog auction coverage is thin because USDA reports most hog prices through mandatory direct-trade (LMR) reports, not auctions.
- Data source: public USDA AMS Market News auction reports (https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/). Works with no API key. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service. Not affiliated with or endorsed by USDA. Prices are reported market observations, may be revised or delayed, and are not investment, trading or lending advice.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by any market or auction named.
