Trading from ringsides at Stirling and Forfar

Caledonian Marts Ltd,

Stirling, sold 2,105 prime hoggets, ewes and tups. Top price of the day went to Easter Ochtermuthill at £101 and to 217ppkg also from Easter Ochtermuthill. Overall sale average for 1,580 hoggets 166.35ppkg (-9.6ppkg on the week). Leading prices pence per kilo: Beltex – Graystale 216ppkg, Cuiltburn 215ppkg, Meikle Seggie 211ppkg. Texel – Meikle Seggie 209ppkg, Wester Thomaston 204ppkg, Bridgehouse 200ppkg. Suffolk – Graystale 176ppkg, Fullerton 174ppkg, Wester Thomaston 170ppkg. Cheviot – Strageath 186ppkg, South Park 183ppkg, Nethermyres 183ppkg. Mule – Meikle Seggie 165ppkg, Raecruick 163ppkg, Graystale 160ppkg. Blackface – South Park 174ppkg, Gillandersland 174ppkg, Wester Thomaston 170ppkg. Also forward were 494 cast ewes and tups. Heavy ewes (163) ave £79.99 selling to £121 from Redhall. Export ewes (251) ave £60. With a good show of ewes forward they were in demand. Other leading prices: Texel – £104 Netherton, £102 and £100 Faulds, £99 and £98 Ayton; £97 Woodend (Cairns). BF – £69 Home Farm (Arniston), £67 Woodend (McNee), £64 Pitcairn, £57 Thorn and Ayton. Suffolk – £104 Brockholes, £100 Whinneyhall and Woodend (McNee), £98 Ayton, £93 Ayton. Cheviot – £85 West Dron, £70 Ayton, Bridgehouse (twice) and Whinneyhall, £67 Lathockar BFL – £78 Pitcairn. Shet X – £56 Gelvan View, £39 Lathockar, £30 Walton. Cross – £95 Harelaw, £90 Wester Newburn, £83 Grange of Lindores, £82 Hilltarvit. Tups sold to £105 from Strageath. Other leading prices: £104 and £100 Walton, £99 Pitcairn, £97 South Cassengrey.

Lawrie & Symington,

Forfar, had forward 17 prime cattle and OTMs and 626 prime sheep. PRIME CATTLE Bullocks (5) sold to 244p per kg for a 611 kg Limousin from Nethermyres and £1,490.84 for the same animal to ave 234.9p per kg. Heifers (11) sold to 252p per kg for a 563 kg Limousin from West Bog and £1,470 for a 600 kg Limousin from West Bog to ave 236.6p per kg. PRIME SHEEP Prime lambs (15) sold to a top of £106 for a Suffolk from Denside Farm. Prime Hoggs (544). Prime hoggs sold to a top of 206p per kg for a 44 kg Beltex from Glenmoy and £94.50 for a 46.5 kg Texel from Newton of Inshewan to average 172p per kg. SQQ average 176p per kg. Leading prices per kg: Belt 206p (twice) Glenmoy, Tex 203p Newton of Inshewan, Tex x 202p Newmill of Inshewan Cast ewes and rams (67) – Tex £90 Drumchapel, HB £86.50 Newton of Inshewan.