Saskatchewan feeder cattle sales hit 12,647 head last week—or about 3,500 above the previous week’s levels.

Canfax reports that year-to-date feeder cattle marketings are three per cent below 2022.

As we have seen all spring, bids for feeder steers and heifers were higher in every weight category—with only one exception—800-to-900 pound steers.

Four-to-five hundred pound steers saw the largest increase at $15.90 for an average bid of $361.90 per hundredweight.

On the heifer side, the price increases were more modest ranging from a low of 87 cents to a high of $6.40. The biggest price mover was 400 to 500 pound heifers which sold for an average provincial price of $320.60 per hundredweight.

Prices of live, non-fed cattle in Alberta were also higher last week. D2 slaughter cows increased $3.96 for an average price of $150.21 per hundredweight. D3 slaughter cows were up $3.54 to average $130.14 per hundredweight.