The Oban Times

Firm trade at Dalmally

- Mules: £51.00 – Ledcharrie: £49.00 – Ormsary Farmers: £46.50 – Garvachy and Bailuacrai­ch, Lismore: £46.00 – Ormsary Farmers. Blackface: £40.50 – Kiloran Farmers, Colonsay and Homefield Croft, Colonsay: £39.00 – Littleport: £38.00 – Castles Estate: £37.00

AT United Auctions’ sale of all classes of lambs and sheep at Dalmally Auction Mart on Saturday August 29, an increased entry of more than 800 head saw 3,126 lambs and sheep sold. Trade for all classes was firm, with a strong contingent of farming buyers in attendance. Averages compared favourably to last year, levelling out at £42.33 against £44.64 at the correspond­ing sale last year. Again, lambs were forward from throughout mainland Argyll, Perthshire, Lochaber and the islands of Lismore, Colonsay, Bute and Barra.

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