United Auctions sold 7367 store lambs and feeding ewes at Stirling on Monday. Top prices and averages for selected breeds of store lambs: Suffolks to £67.50 and averaged £56.02 (-80p on the week); Texels £61 and £52.12 (-37p); Scotch Mules £55 and £48.33 (+10p); Cheviots £54.50 and £47.86 (-£2.06p); Blackfaces £50.50 (+£3.51).
Wallets Marts sold 1476 prime lambs in Castle Douglas yesterday to a top of £76 per head and 172p per kg to average 153.1p (+13p on the week).
There were also 453 cast sheep forward when ewes sold to £124 for Texels and £52 for Blackfaces.
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd sold 24 dairy cattle at Ayr yesterday to a top of £1600 for a freshly-calved HF heifer and an average of £1080.
The firm also had 72 beef-breeding cattle at their monthly sale. Top prices and averages: Bulls to 2600gns and averaged £1898.75 for 6; heifers with calf-at-foot £2450 and £1736.76 for 37; cows and calves £1620 and £1169.52 for 21; in-calf heifers £1300 and £1175 for 2; bulling heifers £1220 for 6.
In the rough ring 99 beef cows averaged 130.2p and 137 dairy cows levelled at 91.3p.
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