Livestock in the auction ring at Stirling mart

Caledonian Marts Ltd sold 628 spring lambs, prime hoggets, ewes and tups.

Spring lambs (28) sold to a top of £122 twice for Beltex and Suffolks from Meikle Seggie and Balhelvie respectively. Butchers lambs sold to a top of 271p/kg for a 45kg Beltex from Meikle Seggie to ave 217ppkg. Leading prices: lambs Texel X £120 Meikle Seggie, Continental £110 Meikle Seggie, Charolais £108 Balhelvie Hoggets (436) sold to a top of £125 for three 50kg Beltex from Letter, Loch of Lowes and to a top of 270ppkg for five 44kg Beltex from Borlick with the SQQ average being 205ppkg, +12p otw. Overall ave 197ppkg, +11p otw. Leading prices: lambs Beltex £120 Letter, Texel X £119 Whitecross, Beltex X £119 Borlick, Continental £115 Hilltarvit Mains, Continental X £113 and £110 Whitecross, Suffolk £92 Middlepart, Blackface £92 Loanrigg, Mule £90 Durieshill. PPK Texel X 264p, 263p, 256p, 251p Whitecross, Beltex 249p, 234p 233p Letter, Continental 238p Whitehouse, Continental X 235p and 227p Whitecross, Texel 228p Hilltarvit Mains, Suffolk 195p Letter, Blackface 193p Durieshill , Mule 187p Dewshill.

Also forward were 143 cast ewes and rams. Heavy ewes averaged £100.84 and sold to £160 for ewes High Auchensale.

Light ewes ave £68.63 and sold to £79 for Cheviots Ayton.

Cast rams sold to £136 for a Texel from Hilltarvit Mains.

Other leading prices: Texel £156 Letter, £136 Strageath, £132 Ayton, £130 The Paddock. Continental £128 Ayton, £126 High Auchensale, £120 Strageath. Beltex £110 Strageath. Suffolk £106 Claylands. Charolais £100 Ayton. Mule £77 East Whitesykes, £73 Hilltarvit Mains. BF £66 Cowdens.