Leading prices

STIRLING United Auctions had forward 9,495 store lambs, breeding and feeding.

Averages: lambs – SuffX £59.97 (-0.31) on week, TexX £57.20 (-1.93), BTexX £62.15 (-1.39), Chev £53.09 (+1.23), Mule £52.38 (-4.74), BF £42.16 (-0.54). Leading prices: store lambs: – Malling (Suff) £67, Dalmahoy (Suff) £66, Low Craigton (Suff) £63.50, Dykebrae (Tex) £73, Gartincaber (Tex) £71, Dalmahoy (Tex) £69.50, Newbigging (BTex) £66, Monzie (BTex) £62, Old House of Orchil (BTex) £58, Cloquhat (Chev) £61.50, Monzie (Chev) £58, Waterloo (Chev) £53, Shields (Mule) £57.50, Gartincaber (Mule) £55.50, East Laggan (Mule) £55, Todholes (BF) £64, Merkins (BF) £57, Haugh & Gartincaber (BF) £50; ewe lambs – Ballikinrain (BTex) £77, Rossieochil (Suff) £80, Knowes (Suff) £78, Drumnaghinier (Suff) £68, Nicol Drive (Pure Tex) £135, Knowes (Tex) £110, Sundhope (Tex) £102, Wedderlie (Tex) £92, Auldallan (Chev/Mule) £108, Lathockar Mains (Chev/Mule) £100. United Auctions had forward 490 Lleyn sheep at their annual show and sale. Judges John Kingan and Julie Robertson awarded champion females to H Goldie, South Bowerhouses, for his pen of gimmers. First-prize ewe lambs and first-prize ram went to Farmstock Genetics. Gimmers (327) ave £139.92, selling to £180 from F McGown, Incheoch. Ewe lambs (125) ave £91.60, topping at £100 from Farmstock Genetics. Rams (22) ave £442.39, peaking at 700gns to H Goldie, South Bowerhouses. FORFAR

Lawrie & Symington had forward 338 store cattle and 15 breeding cattle at their first show and sale of store cattle. The judge was Jim Watson, Pityot. Stot: 1 WN Lindsay, Cairnleith; 2 and 3 DR Hood, Middlehill.

Heifer: 1 and 2 WN Lindsay; 3 DR Hood. Pair: 1, 2 and 3 DR Hood. Champion: WN Lindsay. Reserve: DR Hood.

Store bullocks (215) ave 219ppk or £1,006.30.

Store heifers (123) ave 215p or £994.88. Leading prices were as follow. Bullocks: LimX 261p Cairnleith, SimX 231p Denbrae, AAX 233p & 229p Woodhill & Ballintuim Farms, CharX 230p Whitehills & Bishopton, BSh 239p Afflochie ; Lim £1,300 (twice) Muirdrum, Sim £980 Newbigging House, AAX £930 Bishopton, CharX £1,240 Cairnleith, BSh £1,340 West Bank, BrB £1,310 Middlehill. Heifers: LimX 253p Muirhouses, SimX 219p Newbigging Ho, AAX 227p Newbigging Ho, CharX 235p Cairnleith, BRB 237p Cairnleith; LimX £1,235 West Park, SimX £1,015, AAX £980 Hunthill, CharX £1,225 Cairnleith, BrB £1,140 Cairnleith.

Breeding cattle: Simmental cow with heifer calf at foot £1,680 West Bank; Limousin cow with heifer calf at foot £1,450 Woodhill & Ballintuim Farms; Limousin cow with stot calf at foot £1,450 Woodhill & Ballintuim Farms.