The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart sold 924 store lambs in Dumfries on Friday.
The top prices and averages were: Texels to £55.50 and averaged £50.50; Suffolks £54 and £47; Mules £50 and £43; Blackfaces £44.50 and £29.40.
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd held its annual sale of draft Blackface ewes in Newton Stewart on Friday when 710 sold to average £62.62 (-£2.90 on the year for 100 more sold).
The top price for four-crop ewes was £84 for a pen off Larg, Creetown.
There were also 284 store lambs that sold to £56.20 for Texels and averaged £50.78 (+£1.25 on the year).
Wallets Marts held their second sale of 2,299 Scotch Mule ewe lambs and gimmers yesterday.
Topping the Mule ewe lamb section at £131 was a pen from W&R Kerr & Sons, Sauchrie Mains, with the overall average levelling at £83.38 for 2062 (-£9.14 on the year).
Harrison & Hetherington Ltd sold 10 prime heifers in Carlisle to a top of 229.5p per kilogramme and an average of 194.8 pence (-6.1p on the week).
Meanwhile the 27 prime, beef-bred bullocks peaked at 229.5p and levelled at 186.6p (-0.2p).
Fourteen prime, dairy-bred bullocks were sold to 166.5p and averaged 149.8p (-15.2p).
Fifty-one prime, beef-bred bulls sold to 226.5p and averaged 183.2p (-1.3p).
The 52 prime, dairy- bred bulls peaked at a price of 177.5p and levelled at 147.5p (+0.4p).
In the rough ring 75 beef cows averaged 132.6p (+0.4p) and 196 dairy cows levelled at 99.3p (+0.7p).
Seven bulls averaged 116.9p (-9.4p).
The firm also sold 2,463 prime lambs which came to a top of £99.80 per head and 252.7p per kg to average 156.2p (-3.5p).
The 241 cast sheep forward saw ewes sell to £87.50 for Texels and £65.50 for Hill Cheviots.
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd sold 1,954 prime lambs at Ayr yesterday to a top of £80 and 178.6p to average 138.4p (-7.1p).
The market was again full of heavy lambs with the overall average weight being 44.5kg.
The 1,001 cast sheep forward saw Blackface ewes meet a similar trade to last week selling to £58.
Alongside that heavier ewes were between £5 and £8 cheaper with Texels selling to £98.50.
Lawrie & Symington sold 33 prime heifers in Lanark yesterday to a top of 250p and an average of 219.6p (+0.1p).
Meanwhile the 16 prime, beef-bred bullocks peaked at 239p and levelled at 205.9p (-4.1p).
Eight prime, dairy-bred bullocks averaged 137.1p (-6.2p).
In the rough ring 28 beef cows averaged 102p (-21p) and 23 dairy cows levelled at 91p (+15p).
The firm also sold 2,673 prime lambs to a top of £83 and 176.6p to average 143.5p (-7.4p).
The 1,198 cast sheep forward saw ewes sell to £106.50 for Texels and £63.50 for Blackfaces with the overall average levelling at £44.63 (-£5.54).
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