Quality heavy hoggets selling to £119.50 at Markethill
An entry of nearly 300 cull ewes sold in, perhaps, the best ever trade.
Good quality heavy hoggets sold from 470 to 498p/k for 24k at £119.50 from a Whitecross farmer, followed by 494p/k for 24k at £118.50 from a Keady producer.
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Several pens of heavy hoggets sold from £120 to £123.50 with an average price per head, for 300 heavy hoggets sold, of £120.50 each and an increase of £6 per head on week.
Good quality midweight hoggets sold from 500-565p/k for 21.6k at £122 for a Keady farmer, followed by 551p/k for 20.5k at £113 for an Armagh producer.
A Keady producer received £117.50 for 21.4k 549p/k.
Good quality stores sold from 480-542p/k for 19k at £103 from a Dromara farmer.
300 cull ewes sold in the best trade ever recorded at this mart to a top of £238 for a Banbridge farmer, followed by £233 for a Portadown producer.
All well fleshed ewes from £150 to £221 each.
Plainer ewes from £90 to £132.
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A full yard of ewes and lambs met an improved trade with good quality doubles selling to £315, paid twice, followed by £310 and £300.
Main demand for good quality doubles from £250 to £295.
Singles sold to £270 and £265, paid twice. Main demand for good quality singles from £190 to £240.
Heavy hoggets
Whitecross producer 24k £119.50 498p/k: Keady producer 24k £118.50 494p/k: Poyntzpass producer 24.4k £120 492p/k: Milford producer 24k £118 492p/k: Aghalee producer 24k £117 488p/k: Keady producer 24.9k £121 486p/k: Portadown producer 24.3k £118 486p/k and Armagh producer 25k £121 484p/k.
Midweight hoggets
Armagh producer 21.6k £122 565p/k: Armagh producer 20.5 £113 551p/k: Keady producer 21.4k £117.50 549p/k: Glenanne producer 20.4k £109 534p/k: Richhill producer 22.4k £119.50 534p/k: Markethill producer 20.6k £106.50 517p/k and Armagh producer 22.4k £115.50 516p/k.
Store lambs
Dromara producer 19k £103 542p/k: 17k £88 518p/k: Aughnacloy producer 18.5k £95 514p/k: Ballynahinch producer 18.8k £95 505p/k: Kilkeel producer 19.4k £98 505p/k and Keady producer 17k £85 500p/k.