FARMING
By Neale McQuistin
Lawrie and Symington sold 53 prime and 74 cast cattle at Lanark yesterday.
Prime heifers sold to 256p twice or to £1,569, while prime bullocks sold to 254p or £1,670. Dairy-bred bullocks sold to 190p.
Cast beef cows sold to £1,395 and 176p, while cast dairy cattle peaked at £1,235 and 153p.
The firm also sold 3,046 hoggs and 1,443 cast sheep yesterday.
All classes of hoggets met the dearest trade
so far.
The sale topped at £167 and 381p/kg for Texels, while the overall average was 283p.
The trade for cast sheep was well up for all classes and peaked at £204 for Texels and £89 for Blackfaces.
Harrison & Hetherington sold 68 clean cattle, 43 cast cows, 1,603 prime hoggets and 625 cast sheep at St Boswells yesterday.
Twelve prime bullocks sold to 245p/kg and averaged 230p (+10p), while 56 prime heifers peaked at 264p to average 233p (n/c).
In the cast ring,
cows peaked at £1591 and 217p to average 164p (+10p).
Prime hoggets peaked at £150 and 348p/kg for Beltex hoggs to average £120 (+£2) or 271p (+1p) overall.
Heavy cast sheep sold to a top of £143 for a Beltex ewe and averaged £114 (+£3), while light ewes peaked at £107 for Cheviot ewes and averaged £82 (-£2).
The firm also sold 18 prime heifers at Carlisle yesterday which peaked at 251p/kg and levelled at 220p (-9p), while 24 beef-bred bullocks sold to 236p and levelled at 222p (+6p).
Forty-five young beef-bred bulls peaked at 248p and averaged 197p (n/c), while 32
dairy-bred young bulls sold to 214p and
levelled at 168p
(+10p).
In the rough ring 89 cast beef cows peaked at 228p to average 144 (+1p), while 177 cast dairy cows sold to 179p to average 117p (+5p.
The 2,177 prime hoggs sold to £188 and 387p/kg to average 275p (-2p).
In the cast sheep section 217 heavy ewes peaked at £130 for a Texel to average £87 (-£12), while 27 hill ewes sold to £92 for Swaledales to level at £66 (+£18).
Messrs Craig Wilson sold 1,812 prime hoggets and 301 cast sheep at Ayr yesterday.
It was a powerful show of hoggets that sold to average £119 or 273p/kg (+6p).
Top prices were £141 for a pen of Beltex lambs and 326p/kg for another pen of Beltex.
There was a good show of Blackface hoggets again this week (640) which sold to £133 for a pen weighing 52kg and 280p/kg for another pen to average £110 or 267p.
Cast sheep numbers were tighter, and trade was sharper.
They peaked at £178 for Texel ewes, while Mules made up to £110 and Blackfaces sold to £90.
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