Prime lamb trade tops £115 at Lancaster

A top price of £115 for a Texel lamb marked Lancaster final sale for 2013.  An overall entry of just short of 700 lambs forward averaged 179ppk. Trade topped at 250ppk (£115) for a very smart Texel lamb from James Baxter, who also won the Young Handlers Lowland Class.

Suffolks sold to a top of £90 a head for a pen of 50kg lambs from G Riley, Bolton le Sands and averaged £77 a head.  Mules sold to a top of £80 a head from Amy Ayrton, Yates Farm, winner of the Young Handlers Hill Bred class. With other mules regularly in the high £70’s averaging £74 a head. A good run of Charollais lambs from the Lawrenson family of Chorley, sold to £91 with others regularly in the £80’s, averaging £81 a head.  Texels sold to a top of £115, with others regularly in the £90’s with all Texels forward averaging £79.

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