MARTSREPORT
Baltinglass
CATTLE SALE - JUNE 17: Much bigger sale today with a very strong trade for nice quality stores. Slightly easier trade for overage and plainer cattle. Sample prices as follows.
Bullocks: 1 x LIM 580kg made €1,275; 1 x Charolais 655kg made €1,240; 1 x LIM 650kg made €1,190; 1 x Limousin 645kg made €1,150; 1 x Charolais 590kg made €1,150; 2 x Charolais 577kg made €1,100; 3 x Charolais 505kg made €1,080; 1 x HE 600kg made €1,050; 4 x Charolais 511kg made €1,040; 1 x Charolais 540kg made €1,030; 1 x HE 550kg made €1,020; 2 x Charolais 470kg made €970; 1 x Limousin 440kg made €970; 3 x HE 480kg made €900.
Heifers: 1 x Charolais 640kg made €1,200; 1 x SIM 590kg made €1,120; 1 x Charolais 525kg made €1,100; 1 x Charolais 590kg made €1,100; 1 x Limousin 515Kg made €1,100; 1 x Belgian Blue 395Kg made €1,040; 2 x He 500kg made €930; 1 x Lm 450kg made €900; 1 x Ch 400kg made €800; 3 x Lim 330kg made €750; 5 x He 340kg made €730; 7 x He 300kg made €620.
Fat cows were in demand and were making up to €835 up to €1,100.
SHEEP SALE - JUNE 20: Smaller sale today. Prices held steady for fat lambs but trade slightly easier for lighter lots. Sample prices: 4 x 48kg made €114; 28 x 44kg made €110; 2 x 45kg made €106; 5 x 42kg made €100; 3 x 41kg made €98; 14 x 41kg made €90; 2 x 40kg made €90; 10 x 37kg made €80; 6 x 33kg made €75; 8 x 34kg made €70; 14 x 26kg made €61.
Fat ewes were making from €65 up to €117.
Ewes with lambs at foot made from €120 up to €160
Blessington
SHEEP SALES - JUNE 16: A much larger sale today, with all classes meeting a tougher trade.
Butcher lambs €109 to €114 or €57 to €68; Factory lambs €98 to €108 or €55 to €64; store lambs €65 to €95 or €33 to €44; Heavy ewes €100 to €112; Lighter ewes €74 to €96.
CATTLE SALES - JUNE 18: Very lively trade for all classes, with farmers and factory agents very keen to get their hands on forward store cattle and beef cattle. Lots of farmers for the smaller store cattle.
Beef bullocks over 600kg, €560 to €785 forward store bullocks over 500kg, €520 to €685; store bullock over 400kg, €420 to €600; store bullock over 300kg, €390 to €615; Beef heifers over 500kg, €480 to €615; store heifers over 400kg, €400 to €525; Fat cows €250 to €525.
Carnew
DRY COW AND SUCKLER SALE - JUNE 12: 260 on offer meet a strong trade with prices similar to last week. Strong Northern Ireland demand for quality continental types & fleshed Friesians.
Price: 1 Lm 698kg @ €1,450, 1 Friesian 810kg @ €1,060, 1 Lm 760kg @ €1,410, 1 Lm 810kg @ €1,500. 2 Lm 664kg @ €1,210, 2 Friesian 530Kg @ €600, 2 Friesian 477kg @ €510, 2 Friesian 670kg @ €920. 3 Friesian 625kg @ €760, 1 Ptx 820kg @ €1,740, 2 Hd 710kg @ €1,110, 3 Friesian 621kg @ €810; Friesian Beef cows €1.28 to €1.47 per kg. Friesian store Cow €0.88 to €1.33 per kg. Continental
Beef Cow €1.46 to €2.11 per kg. Continental store Cow €1.35 to €1.96 per kg. Suckler cows and calves €1,080 to €1,740.
CATTLE AND CALF SALE: Very large entry of 770 Cattle & 300 Calves. Cattle trade was very strong with improved demand for quality continental store cattle & strong export demand for E & U grade weanlings with up to €4.07/ kg price i.e. 1 BB Bull 324kg @ €1,320. Strong Northern Ireland demand for beef cattle.
Prices: Beef and Forward store bullocks €1.88 to €2.37 per kg. Continental store bullocks €2.05 to €3.02 per kg. Hd / AA store bullock €1.75 to €2.17 per kg. Friesian store bullocks €1.37 to €1.81 per kg. Continental bulls €2.05 to €4.07 per kg. Beef heifers €1.88 to €2.41 per kg. store heifers €1.75 to €2.81 per kg.
SHEEP SALE - JUNE 18: Bigger Sale with 1380 sheep on offer. Good selling trade with a full clearance. More farmer customers for stores led to an improved trade on last week
Lambs over 45kg €111 to €119; 40 to 44kg €93 to €112; 35 to 39kg €79 to €95; stores under 35kg €70 to €83; Light cull ewes €50 to €85; Heavy cull ewes €100 to €130 ewes and Lambs @ foot €115 to €200.
Prices: 15 lamb 49kg @ €118, 16 lamb 50kg @ €119, 12 lambs
48kg @ €116, 29 lambs 45kg @ €111, 15 lamb 45kg @ €111, 15 lambs 44kg @ €108, 12 lambs 43kg @ €106, 19 lambs 42kg @ €101, 30 lambs 40kg @ €93, 16 lambs 41kg @ €96, 30 lambs 38kg @ €88, 25 lambs 36kg @ €90, 32 lambs 33kg @ €81, 17 lambs 29kg @ €70, 15 lambs 37kg @ €79, 30 lambs 40kg @ €93.
Tullow
CATTLE REPORT - JUNE 19: Trade fully maintained today in Tullow with a very strong demand around the ring and online for the quality stores especially those 350kg to 500kg continental stores both bullocks and heifers.
We saw a very strong demand for the forward beef cattle with FR and plainer bullocks sold from €400 with the kg and the good smart continentals up to a tops of €950 with the kg but overall a very strong demand for all the cattle in this class.
Brisk trade and plenty of farmers custom around the ring lightest 350kg plus HE and AA sold from €190 upwards and the continentals sold from €2.10 up to €2.55 with some exceptional types pushing up close to €3 per kg.
A very lively trade for beef heifers with plenty of butcher and feeder business custom for the in-spec quality assured hfrs and they sold from a tops one specific hfr 610kg made €1550 while we saw the store hfrs with lots of farmer custom around the ring HE and AA from €1.90 upwards and the good continentals sold from €2.15 up to €2.50 for the majority with some exceptional lots breaking up near to €3.
We had a small entry of calves. FR calves sold from €30 to €80 per head with some lighter HE and AA sold from €100 up to €210 for the stronger bull type.
Plenty of custom for cull cows and Id call them possibly dearer by €20 or €30 we had seen on a fortnight ago with continental FR cows freshly out of the parlour sold from €100 with the kg up to €350 with the kg and the continentals sold from €300 with the kg for the younger feeder types up to €700 with the kg for the heavier type cows.
Overall a good clearance today in Tullow trade fully maintained on last weeks prices which is good to report and a lot of online activity amongst the ring bidding.
Just to remind everyone we have an E & U grade sale Friday 3rd July to include E & U grade Weanlings.