Tullow

Very lively trade today in Tullow amongst all the pressures the farmers are currently meeting with the weather conditions.

The forward type store bks meeting a very lively trade with those FR types selling from €1.80 per kg up to a tops today of €1050 given for those continental CH type bks.

Store cattle holding an equally lively trade with those good continental bks very much in demand with those 380kg to 450kg type bks selling in the region from €800 up to €1120 and they being 420kg making €1120 LMX while we saw the heavier type store bks for grass selling in the region from €1.85per kg for the FR types up to a tops of €2.60 per kg for continental type bks.

The beef and butcher type hfrs selling from €1.95 up to a tops today of €1000 with the kg for the continental type hfrs while we saw some very lively demand for the store type hfrs. Hfrs over 400kg selling from €800 up to a tops of €1050 for 420kg and those heifers over 500kg selling up to €2.35 per kg while the lighter heifers equally a very lively trade selling anything from €2 per kg for the HE and AA types upwards of €2.80 per kg given for the continentals with some exceptional ones pushing up over €3.

FR cull cows from €150 to €200 with the kg for the feeding type younger cows with the continental cows equally briskly from €300 up to €750 given with the kg for well fleshed continental type cows.

Very lively trade in the calf ring. The FR type calves improving by €10 to €20 per head for the shipper type calves selling from €70 up to €120 per head with the hfr HE and AA selling from €130 to €250 bulls from €180 up to €300 with some continental bulls braking the €400 mark and some continental hfrs pushing up to €360.

Full clearance in Tullow with a very lively trade and included in our cattle sale next Friday 13th April special entry of 40 Continental hfrs and bks

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