Hoggets selling to £162.50 per head for 30.9k at Markethill Mart

Trade was similar to previous weeks.

The heaviest hoggets sold from £150 to £162.50 per head for 30.9k from a Ballykinlar farmer, followed by £157.50 for 40 hoggets (29.8k) from an Armagh producer.

Top quality heavy hoggets sold to 580p/k for 25.5k at £148 from a Benburb farmer and for 24.5k at £142 from a Cullyhanna producer.

Good quality midweights sold steadily from 580-624p/k for 20.5k at £128 for a Tassagh producer, followed by 620p/k for 21.6k at £134 for a Castlewellan producer.

An Omagh producer sold 44 hoggets 23.4k at £143.50 each.

Stores sold steadily from 620-695p/k for 17.4k at £121 each.

The 120 cull ewes sold in a firm trade to a top of £232, with others at £230, £224 and £220.

Main demand for fleshed ewes from £150-£216 and plainer types from £90-£136 each.

Heavy hoggets

Benburb producer 25.5k £148 580p/k: Cullyhanna producer 24.5k £142 580p/k: Tandragee producer 25.7k £147 571p/k: Cullyhanna producer 24k £137 571p/k: Armagh producer 25.5k £145 569p/k: Richhill producer 26.1k £148 567p/k: Ballykinlar producer 26.5k £148 559p/k: 26.5k £147.50 557p/k: Benburb producer 28k £150 536p/k and Ballykinlar producer 29k £155.50 536p/k.

Midweight hoggets

Tassagh producer 20.5k £128 624p/k: Castlewellan producer 21.6k £134 620p/k: Omagh producer 23.4k £143.50 612p/k: Caledon producer 20.8k £127 611p/k: Tassagh producer 21.7k £132 608p/k: Dromara producer 21.6k £130.50 604p/k: Armagh producer 22.3k £134.50 603p/k and Caledon producer 22.3k £134 601p/k.

Stores

Castlewellan producer 17.4k £121 695p/k: Tassagh producer 16.7k £116 695p/k: Dromara producer 17.5k £117 669p/k: Armagh producer 15k £100 667p/k: Castlewellan producer 19.4k £127.50 657p/k and Dromara producer 17.9k £117 654p/k.