Livestock

STIRLING – United Auctions sold 805 store cattle at their annual Perth sale including 35 east area Young Farmers calves.

Bullocks (445) averaged 259.9p and sold to a top of 330.20p per kg for a pen of 427kg Limousin crosses from Monzie Farms, and £1,510 for a 586kg Limousin cross from Ballechin.

Heifers (442) averaged 254.67p and sold to a top price of 438.60p per kg for a 456kg Limousin cross from Stanley and £2,000 for the same animal.

Leading prices per head and per kg: Store cattle: Bullocks: Up to 250kg: Kinneswood £600, 272.70ppk; 301-350kg: Monzie £1,070, 313.80p; 351-400kg: Little Inch £1,110, Kinneswood 298.60p; 401-450kg: Monzie Farm £1,410, 330.20p; 451500kg: Holehouse £1,400, 301.10p; 501-551kg: Wester Bonhard £1,470, 275.00p; 552-601kg: Ballechin £1,510, Wester Bonhard 264.40p; 602651kg: Letham £1,450, 227.0p. Heifers: 301-350kg: Little Inch £1,040, 302.30p; 351-400kg: Little Inch £1,260, 329.80p; 401-450kg: Stanley £1,400, 335.00p; 451-500kg: Stanley £2,000, 438.60p; 501-551kg: Wester Bonhard £1,900, 368.20p; 552-601kg: Letham £1,420, 239.10p; 602-651kg: Balthayock £1,590, 247.70ppk. Young Farmers prize list: Weight gain:

Heifers: 1 Ewan Barr, Edinburgh, 1.14kg per day; 2 Hazel Laird, West Fife, 1.13kg per day;

3 A Brunton, East Fife, and A Mackenzie, Strathearn, both at 1.12kg per day. Bullocks: 1 Scott Barr, West Fife, 1.57kg per day;

2 Craig Barr, West Fife, 1.30kg per day;

3 A Brunton, East Fife, and G Barr, West Fife, both at 1.20kg per day.

Profit as a percentage: Heifers: 1 Hazel Laird, West Fife, 159%;

2 Emma Cheape, Kinross, 90%;

3 Johanna Mitchell, Kinross, 82%.

Bullocks: 1 Hazel Laird, West Fife, 74%;

2 Scott Barr, West Fife, 62%; 3 A Mackenzie, Strathearn, 53%.

QUOYBRAE – Aberdeen and Northern Marts sold 731 prime, store and feeding sheep.

Old season prime lambs (114) averaged 289p and sold to a top price of 315.9p per kg for 44kg Beltex from Ackergill Mains, Wick, and £152 for 53kg Beltex from Brae-edge, Castletown.

Ewe lambs (103) averaged £113.97 and sold to a top price of £168 for Cheviots from West Point, Mid-keiss.

Old season store lambs (281) averaged £90.34 and sold to a top price of £142 for a pen of Texels from Strath Farm, Watten.

Feeding ewes and rams (233) averaged £109.27 and sold to £191 for Texels from Hill of Forss, Forss, Thurso. “Trade for all stock sold at rates well in excess of sellers’ expectations and many more are required for our next sale to satisfy ongoing demand,” said the mart.

Leading prices:

Old season prime lambs: Tex - Upper Milton Farm £150, Ackergill Mains 314p; Suff Milton Farm, Halkirk £146, 3 Skaill 306.5p; Cont - Milton Farm £145, Ackergill Mains 307p; HB - Lythmore £142, 278.4p; Chev - Oldfield Farm £141, Upper Milton Fram 305.4p; Bel - Ackergill Mains £139, Brae-edge 286.8p. Ewe lambs: HB - Lythmore £144; Tex - Ackergill Mains £140; Chev - Winless Mains £124; Cont - Winless Mains £116.

Old season store lambs: Chev - West Point, Mid-keiss £142; Suff - Toftcarl and Gerston £136; Tex - West Catchery £134; Chevx - Gerston £120; Black - Quoybrae Farm £110; Cont - Whitefield, Reiss £110; Char - Gansclett £102; B/F Ha’ Bowermadden £92. Feeding ewes: Tex - Strath Farm and Stainland and Sibmister Farms £170; NC Chev - Overton, Mid-clyth (Sutherland) £169; Suff - Milton Farm £155;

Cont - Stainland and Sibmister Farms £148; BDM - Thura Mains £142; Chev/mule Stainland and Sibmister Farms £133; Mule - Thura Mains £120. Feeding rams: Tex - Nybster £148; Suff - Thurdistoft £138; NC Chev - March Cottage, Ulbster £128.