Cow with bull calf at foot sells for £2000 at Hilltown Mart

Spring lambs sold to £145, fat ewes to £173 and ewes with lambs at foot to £270.

Spring lambs: Kilkeel farmer £145 for 23.5kg (617ppk), Castlewellan farmer £145 for 26kg (557ppk), Keady farmer £143 for 23.5kg (608ppk), Hilltown farmer £138 for 23.5kg (587ppk), Keady farmer £138 for 22.1kg (624ppk) and £138 for 21kg (657ppk), Cabra farmer £136 for 21.2kg (644ppk), Annalong farmer £136 for 21.5kg (632ppk), Hilltown farmer £134 for 22.5kg (595ppk), Mayobridge farmer £134 for 21.9kg (611ppk), Hilltown farmer £130 for 20.8kg (625ppk) and Castlewellan farmer £128 for 21.7kg (589ppk).

Fat ewes: Kilkeel farmer £173, £155 and £151, Hilltown farmer £147, Kilkeel farmer £141, Rathfriland farmer £140, Downpatrick farmer £140, Hilltown farmer £139, Rostrevor farmer £139, Hilltown farmer £135, Hilltown farmer £133, Hilltown farmer £133, Kilkeel farmer £132, Hilltown farmer £132, Mayobridge farmer £132, Cabra farmer £130, Hilltown farmer £130, Annalong farmer £127 and Hilltown farmer £127, Attical farmer £126.

Ewes and lambs: Kilkeel farmer £270, £250 and £248, Hilltown farmer £210 and £205, Dromara farmer £200 and £185 and Jonesborough farmer £175.

Saturday 8th May saw a large entry of cattle with fat cows reaching £1420, cows and calves making £2000, heifers reached £1430 and bullocks to £1640.

Fat cows: Rostrevor farmer £1420 for 784kg (181ppk), Dromore farmer £1300 for 796kg (163ppk), Kilcoo farmer £1160 for 678kg (171ppk), Dromara farmer £1100 for 648kg (169ppk), Dromara farmer £1090 for 748kg (145ppk), Attical farmer £1080 for 680kg (158ppk), Hilltown farmer £1050 for 626kg (167ppk) and Corbet farmer £1040 for 610kg (170ppk).

Cows and calves: Kilcoo farmer £2000, Newcastle farmer £1750, Kilkeel farmer £1660 and £1600, Cabra farmer £1250 and £1160 and Mayobridge farmer £930.

Weanling heifers: Mayobridge farmer £1110 for 390kg (284ppk), Attical farmer £1020 for 398kg (256ppk), Kilcoo farmer £960 for 348kg (275ppk), Mayobridge farmer £930 for 418kg (222ppk) and £910 for 346kg (263ppk), Attical farmer £910 for 354kg (257ppk), Mayobridge farmer £860 for 430kg (200ppk), Attical farmer £860 for 326kg (263ppk), Mayobridge farmer £760 for 370kg (205ppk) and £740 for 298kg (248ppk) and Cabra farmer £720 for 300kg (240ppk).

Weanling bullocks: Cabra farmer £1140 for 404kg (282ppk) and £1110 for 356kg (311ppk), Newry farmer £1000 for 414kg (241ppk), Newry farmer £950 for 422kg (225ppk), Mayobridge farmer £940 for 404kg (232ppk), Kilcoo farmer £940 for 368kg (255ppk) and £930 for 382kg (243ppk), Kilkeel farmer £930 for 462kg (201ppk), Newry farmer £880 for 370kg (237ppk), Mayobridge farmer £880 for 428kg (205ppk), Hilltown farmer £870 for 354kg (245ppk), Newry farmer £860 for 396kg (217ppk) and Mayobridge farmer £850 for 344kg (247ppk).

Heifers: Kilkeel farmer £1430 for 642kg (222ppk), Mayobridge farmer £1320 for 542kg (243ppk), Annalong farmer £1310 for 696kg (188ppk), Dromore farmer £1250 for 654kg (191ppk) and £1220 for 646kg (188ppk), Kilcoo farmer £1160 for 556kg (208ppk), Rostrevor farmer £1160 for 456kg (254ppk), Mayobridge farmer £1100 for 566kg (194ppk), Kilcoo farmer £1070 for 492kg (217ppk), Mayobridge farmer £1000 for 522kg (191ppk), Dromara farmer £1000 for 542kg (184ppk) and Mayobridge farmer £970 for 450kg (215ppk).

Bullocks: Banbridge farmer £1640 for 800kg (205ppk), Dromara farmer £1530 for 676kg (226ppk) and £1410 for 644kg (218ppk), Hilltown farmer £1410 for 628kg (224ppk), Kilkeel farmer £1400 for 644kg (217ppk), Dromara farmer £1370 for 662kg (206ppk), Newry farmer £1360 for 712kg (191ppk), Dromara farmer £1350 for 700kg (192ppk), Annalong farmer £1320 for 584kg (226ppk), Rathfriland farmer £1300 for 590kg (220ppk), Kilkeel farmer £1290 for 574kg (224ppk) and £1290 for 582kg (221ppk), Kilkeel farmer £1280 for 574kg (223ppk), Rathfriland farmer £1280 for 568kg (225ppk), Hilltown farmer £1280 for 580kg (220ppk) and Kilkeel farmer £1260 for 616kg (204ppk) and £1230 for 556kg (221ppk).