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Tue 20 March 2018
Well, one word to explain this weeks trade – serious. This trade is unbelievable, key to a good trade is meat. It was encouraging to see a major deadweight firm buying market lambs. Topping at 275.5p/kg for a pen of 42.5kg lambs with pen after pen sold over 260p/kg. Top price per head was £124.80 for 2 64kg lambs. The lighter hill bred hoggets were in demand, averaging 225p/kg. some hoggets sold were equal to £6k/g deadweight. More hoggets required every week.