Ringside action from Forfar and Stirling

Lawrie and Symington, Forfar, had forward 395 store and breeding cattle on Saturday. Store cattle: bullocks (135) to 274.6p for 335kg Lim from Ballinloan and £1,205 for 530 kg from Ball in loan to ave 224.9p; heifers (256) to 254.2p for 415kg Lim from Muirhouses and £1,200 for 565kg Lim from Middlehill to ave 209.2p. Young bulls (4) to 191.2p and £870 for 455kg Sim from Deuchar. Breeding cattle (4) to £1,400 for a AA cow and AA heifer calf at foot. Bullocks: Char 258p East Balloch, Lim 274.6p Ballinloan, Sim 257.5p East Balloch; AA £1,070 Lochaber, Char £1,095 Kinnaniel, Lim £1,205 Ballinloan. Heifers – AA 248.7p St Fort Home Farm, Lim 254.2p Muirhouses, Sim 232.3p Craigow; AA £1,070 Mains of Logie, Lim£1,200 Middlehill, Sim £1,030 Mains of Logie.

Caledonian Marts, Stirling sold 1,583 prime hoggets, cast ewes and tups. Top price of the day went to Drum cairn, for a pen of Texel X Hoggets at £103. Top price per kilo went to Dollarbank for a pen of Beltex X Hoggets at 233ppkg. Overall sale average for 1,287 hoggets was 175.4ppk (+3.71ppk on the week). SQQ average for 920 is 182ppkg (+6ppkg on the week). Prime lambs (2) sold to £94 for a Zwarble from Broomfield and to 236ppk from 35 Mannerston. Leading prices Beltex – £100 or 217ppk West Thomaston. Belt X – £100 or 218ppk Drumcairn. Texel – £99 or 212ppk Meikle Seggie. Tex X – £98 or 218ppk Drumcairn. Cont – £98 or 222ppk Dollarbank. Cont X – £97.50 Drumlochy, 209ppkg Touchie. Suff X – £93.50 West Thomaston, 184ppkg Newton. Chev – £88 South Park, 190ppkg Brownhill. BF – £86.50 Burnshot, 176ppkg South Park. Ewes (284) ave £72.55 (+1.97), 75 heavy ewes ave £90.23, 196 export ewes ave £65.55 and 17 Tups ave £99.76. Other leading prices Texel – £120 Whitecross, £117 Kinninmonth, £106 Newton, £105 Hariviesmailing and Newton, £104 Whitecross, £99 Harviesmailing. BFL – £103 Pennytersal. Chev – £97 Meikle Seggie and Harvi es mail ling, £82 Whinneyh all ,£80 Carden, £78 Craigmad. Suff – £103 Carden, £87 Raecruick, £85 Craiglaw. Belt – £110 Strathore, £80 Ashfield. Cross – £88 Whitehouse, £87 Carden, £86 Heights and Raecruick, £85 Loig and Carden. HB – £89 Carden. BF – £77 Carden, £69 Otter Estate, £67 Upper Ettrick, £66 Auchenrivoch and Pennytersal, £63 Newton. Char – £94 Kinnighallen.