Cattle Auction Prices by Sale Barn

Informational only. Not for navigation, safety, emergency, financial, medical, or legal decisions. Check the official source before you rely on it.

Prices are USDA Market News reports of past auction sales, not offers to buy or sell, and not financial advice.

What it does

Finds the newest market report for each livestock auction in the states you pick and returns one clean row per price line: class (steers, heifers, cows, bulls, pairs, bred cows and more), grade, head count, weight range and average, price range and average, dressing, and the barn's notes (for example Unweaned or Fleshy). Covers the auction reports in the public USDA list: about 300 candidate reports in 30 states in the 30 days before Oct 17, 2026 (not all are weighted average price reports; others are skipped).

Quick start (no code)

1. Leave the default to get the 3 newest Missouri auction reports, or type state codes in "States" (for example OK, TX, NE).
2. Optional: type a barn or town name in "Auction name contains", or a report number in "Report ids".
3. Raise "Max auction reports" to get more barns. Each barn report is often 30 to 150 rows.
4. Click Start and download the table as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Output fields

Every row has the same fields in the same order. Missing values are null. auction, city, state, reportId, reportTitle, reportDate, reportStatus, totalReceipts, section, class, grade, priceBasis, priceUnit, head, weightLow, weightHigh, weightAvg, priceLow, priceHigh, priceAvg, dressing, description, species, note, error, qcStatus, qcNotes, sourceUrl, retrievedAt, retrievedAtLocal.

• priceUnit is $/cwt (dollars per hundred pounds) or $/head (pairs and bred cows), from the report's own heading.
• priceBasis says whether weights are actual or estimated.
• reportDate is the sale date.

Self-checks

Rows are never dropped. A row is flagged in qcStatus with a reason when a price or weight is outside a plausible range, an average falls outside its range, low is above high, the head count is missing, or the sale is older than your look-back window plus 3 days. A report that cannot be fetched returns one row with the error filled in.

Source limits

• Only auctions that publish the standard weighted average report are included. Some barns report weekly, some monthly or seasonally.
• Each auction's newest report is used. Older sales are not returned.
• Values are passed through as published.

Data sources and credits

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock, Poultry and Grain Market News, public auction report PDFs (https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/) and the public report list. USDA information is public domain. Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Disclaimer

This is an independent tool by Standard Work Co. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any government agency named here. Agency names are used only to say where the data comes from. The data comes from public government sources and is passed through as published, only reformatted. Government data can be preliminary, late, missing, revised, or wrong, and this tool can fail too. This output is not an official government record. Provided "as is" with no warranty of any kind, including accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. You are responsible for checking the official source before acting on anything here. Liability is limited as stated in the Apify Standard Actor Contract for this tool.