The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
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LAWRIE & SYMINGTON
(Forfar) had forward 160 store and breeding cattle.
Bullocks (76) to £1,265 for a Sim from Little Ballo and to 250ppk for a Lim from Meikle Coul Farms, to ave 217p.
Heifers (81) to £1,100 (three times) from Little Ballo, Wairds of Alpity and Baldastard, and to 256p for a Limousin heifer from Baldastard, to ave 214p.
Bullocks: AA 233.3p Newbigging of Craighall; Char 227.4p Meikle Coul; Lim 250p Meikle Coul; Sim 231.7p Aucharroch; RoX 237.1p Meikle Coul.
Heifers: AA 220.5p Denbrae; Char 234.3p Carmichael; Lim 256.1p Baldastard; Sim 220.9p Aucharroch; BrBX 217.4p Baldastard; RoX 210.3p Meikle Coul.
Breeding cattle: Lim in-calf heifers to £1,000 and Lim bull (two years old) £1,700 Roe Park.
CALEDONIAN MARTS
(Stirling) had forward 2,460 prime hoggets, ewes and tups.
Overall sale ave for 2,045 sold was 162.6p (-2.6p on week).
Top price to a lamb donated for Orchid Testicular Cancer Awareness at £100. Top price per kilo to Doune Farms, at 198p for a pen of five BeltX lambs at 46kg.
32-39kg ave 163.1ppk (-2p) and £60.22 (+68p): Beltex £74 or 190p Doune Farms; Cont £73.50 or 188p Mains of Struie; TexX £73 or 187p Airthrey Kerse; Tex £73 Craigievern.
39.1-45.5kg ave 167.5p (-6p) and £70.55 (-£2.75): Tex £80 or 195p Meikle Seggie; Beltex £80 or 186p Cuiltburn; TexX £79 or 193p Newbigging; Chev £77 Middlepark.
45.6-52kg ave 159p (+2.6p) and £77.21 (+£2.18): Beltex £95 or 198p Doune Farms; BeltX £94 or 188p Cuiltburn; Tex £94 or 196p Doune Farms; TexX £89 Cuiltburn.
52kg+ ave 140.6p (-2.6p) and £78.65 (+£2.36): Beltex £93 or 169p Doune Farms; Tex £90 or 170p Easter Ochtermuthill; Cont £90 or 170p Meikle Seggie; Lleyn £81 Glencallan.
Also forward 370 cast ewes ave £49.24. Heavy ewes (120) ave £65.82. Export ewes (217) ave £40.10. Tups ave £42.14, selling to £110 for a Texel from Allanfauld.
Texel £112 Gilmeadowland and Gillandersland; BF £40 Dollarbank; BFL £81 Over Finlarg; Beltex £90 Cuiltburn; Mule £66 Golland; tups £92 Grange of Lindores.