Fat ewes selling to £170 at Downpatrick Mart

Spring lambs sold to £140.00.

Hoggetts to £129.

Fat ewes to £170.00 and light weight lambs to £5.96ppk.

Spring lambs

Downpatrick farmer 25kg £140.00 and 21kg £128.00, Crossgar farmer 22kg £134.00, Downpatrick farmer 25kg £133.00, Strangford farmer 22kg £130.00, Newcastle farmer 21kg £122.00, Downpatrick farmer 21kg £119.00, Ballynahinch farmer 20kg £119.00, Crossgar farmer 20kg £115.00, Ardglass farmer 19kg £114.00 and Ballynahinch farmer 19kg £110.00 and 18kg £101.

Fat hoggetts

Ballynahinch farmer 42kg £129.00, Drumnakelly farmer 31kg £125.00, Ballynahinch farmer 36kg £110.00 and 23kg £60.00, Drummaroad farmer 48kg £110.00 and 35kg £73.00, Clanvaraghan farmer 22kg £90.00 and Downpatrick farmer 18kg £65.

Fat ewes

Downpatrick farmer £170.00 and £134.00, Drumnakelly farmer £149.00 and £116.00 and £98.00, Downpatrick farmer £148.00 and £143.00, Strangford farmer £142.00, Ardglass farmer £140.00 and £120.00 and £100.00, Castlewellan farmer £136.00 and £126.00 and £112.00, Ballynahinch farmer £135.00, Crossgar farmer £130.00 and £114.00, Ballynahinch farmer £117.00, Downpatrick farmer £105.00, Ballynahinch farmer £98.00 and Downpatrick farmer £84.

At the Monday night cattle sale on 3rd May 2021, there was a good entry of quality cattle.

Bullocks peaked at £1540 for a 710kg Aberdeen Angus from D Kane (Dundrum), with heifers at £1410 for a 766kg Hereford from J Henning (Cabra).

Light weight stores sold to £2.10ppk.

Leading prices in all categories as follows:

Bullocks

Dundrum farmer 710kg Aberdeen Angus £1540.00 (2.16ppk) and 632kg Aberdeen Angus £1390 (2.20ppk) and 680kg Aberdeen Angus £1340 (1.98ppk), Ardglass farmer 640kg Aberdeen Angus £1340 (2.10ppk) and 516kg Aberdeen Angus £1060 (2.05ppk), Legamaddy farmer 498kg Simmental £1080 (2.17ppk) and 478kg Aberdeen Angus £1010 (2.11ppk) and Templeburn farmer 540kg Aberdeen Angus £1080 (2.00ppk) and 570kg Aberdeen Angus £990.

Heifers

Cabra farmer 766kg Hereford £1410 (1.85ppk) and 678kg Hereford £1300 (1.92ppk) and 626kg Hereford £1130 (1.82ppk), Dromara farmer 630kg Limousin £1260 (2.00ppk), Ardglass farmer 690kg Aberdeen Angus £1230 (1.80ppk) and 600kg Aberdeen Angus £1120 (1.87ppk) and 428kg Aberdeen Angus £840 (1.96ppk), Legamaddy farmer 560kg Simmental £1040 (1.85ppk) and 490kg Limousin £990 (2.00ppk) and 516kg Simmental £960 (1.86ppk), Templeburn farmer 512kg Aberdeen Angus £960 (1.90ppk) and 470kg Aberdeen Angus £780 (1.70ppk) and Ballynahinch farmer 334kg Limousin £790 (2.10ppk) and 276kg Hereford £410.