Heavy lambs sold to £92.50 each for 25.8kgs at Markethill

Heavy lambs sold to £92.50 each for 25.8kgs (359p).

All good quality pens sold from £84 to £90 each with main demand from 340p to 360p per kilo for 24 kilos at £86.50 each.

Good quality middleweight lambs sold to 377p per kilo for 22 kilos at £83 each. Main demand sold from 350p to 361p per kilo for 22 kilos at £79.50 each.

Stores sold in the best trade to date this season to 484p per kilo for 12.4 kilos at £60 each, followed by 457p per kilo for 14 kilos at £64 each. Light stores sold from 370p to 420p per kilo with stronger pens from 340p to 386p per kilo for 18.9 kilos at £73 each.

Cull ewes sold from £68 to £89 each with plainer ewes from £45 to £60 each.

In the breeding ring rams sold to £370 for a shearling Texel. Others sold from £200 to £300 each. Breeding hoggets sold to £165 each with several pens from £140 to £160 each.

HEAVY LAMBS: Loughgall farmer: 24k, £86.50, 360p: Tandragee farmer: 25.8k, £92.50, 359p: Mullabawn farmer: 24.3k, £86, 354p: Newry farmer: 24k, £83.50, 348p: Armagh farmer: 24.2k, £84, 347p: Portadown farmer: 24.2k, £84, 347p: Cullyhanna farmer: 25k, £86, 344p.

MIDDLEWEIGHT LAMBS: Poyntzpass farmer: 22k, £83, 377p: Jerrettspass farmer: 22k, £79.50, 361p: Armagh farmer: 21k, £76, 360p: Killylea farmer: 22.6k, £81.2k, £359p: Lurgan farmer: 22k, £78.50, 357p: Magheralin farmer: 22.3k, £79.50, 357p: Tynan farmer: 23.3k, £82.80, 355p: Tandragee farmer: 22k, £78.50, 355p: Annaghmore farmer: 22.7k, £80.50, 355p.

STORES: Camlough farmer: 12.4k, £60, 484p: Camlough farmer: 14k, £64, 457p: Poyntzpass farmer: 13.8k, £58, 420p: Markethill farmer: 12.2k, £51, 418p: Mayobridge farmer: 15.3k, £63, 412p: Portadown farmer: 13.8k, £56, 406p: Portadown farmer: 11.6k, £46, 397p: Poyntzpass farmer: 15.4k, £61, 396p: Portadown farmer: 15.7k, £62, 395p.