Lamb price holds despite bigger numbers at St Boswells

St Boswells Livestock Centre, Roxburghshire

A larger show of 3,302 spring lambs at Monday’s (1 August) sale met a similar trade to last week, with a top price of 212p/kg paid for a pen of Texels. Another Texel pen claimed the top price per head of £94, with an overall average of 189.2p/kg which was 0.2p/kg up on the week. Prices for cast ewes fell by £1.52 a head, with 373 lives averaging £80.10, and peaking at £128 for Suffolks.

In the cattle ring, bullocks averaged 199.9p/kg (7p/kg up on the week) and topped at 215p/kg. Heifer trade was unchanged at 192p/kg, with young bull prices dropping by 6p to average 183.3p/kg. Over 30-month beef cattle settled at 138.6p/kg and peaked at 185p.