Easier trade for hoggets and lambs at Markethill

Middleweight hoggets sold from 340p to 360p per kilo for 20.4 kilos @ £73.50 each. Heavy hoggets sold from 320p to 344p per kilo for 25 kilos @ £86 each.

Light lambs sold to 399p per kilo for 21.5 kilos @ £85.80 each, followed by 398p per kilo for 21 kilos @ £83.50 each. Main demand sold from 370p to 396p per kilo.

Heavy lambs sold from £85 to £89 each. Top price of 365p per kilo was paid for 24.2 kilos @ £88.20 each.

Heavy cull ewes sold from £70 to £87 each with poorer quality pens selling from £45 to £65 each.

A full yard of breeders sold in a steady trade. Doubles sold to £228 each with several more from £150 to £198 each. Singles sold from £120 to £152 each.

HEAVY HOGGETS: Cullyhanna farmer 25k £86 344p. Portadown farmer 24.5k £83 338p. Newtownhamilton farmer 24.5k £79 322p. Portadown farmer 24.9k £80 321p.

MIDDLEWEIGHT HOGGETS

Loughbrickland farmer 20.4k £73.50 360p. Loughbrickland farmer 20.6k £73.50 356p. Loughbrickland farmer 20.9k £73 349p. Silverbridge farmer 22.3k £77.80 348p. Armagh farmer 20k £68 340p.

LIGHT LAMBS

Armagh farmer 211.5k £85.80 399p. Banbridge farmer 21k £83.50 398p. Markethill farmer 22.6k £89.50 396p. Portadown farmer 21.7k £85.50 394p. Scarva farmer 21k £82 391p. Markethill farmer 20.3k £79.20 390p. Ballynahinch farmer 20k £78 390p. Newtownhamilton farmer 22.5k £87.50 389p

HEAVY LAMBS: Mulladuff farmer 24.2k £88.20 365p. Newry farmer 24.3k £88 362p. Keady farmer 25.6k £87 339p.