Gleam of hope at Lairg sheep sale


19 August 1999


Gleam of hope at Lairg sheep sale


THE Lairg sheep sale in Sutherland, one of Europes largest annual one-day sales of lambs, showed signs of confidence returning to the industry, according to The Herald.

Some 30,000 North Country Cheviot lambs passed through in an eight-hour sale.

Although prices were well below the peak of £50 a head seen two years ago, the newspaper was impressed by buyer interest from across the UK. Prices were £5 above “the expectations of buyers and sellers” with anything above £20 “clearly a bonus”.

This year the sale grossed £500,000, as against £1.3 million two years ago.

A feature of the sale was a near-majority presentation of lambs qualified as farm-assured by the Scotch Quality Beef & Lamb Association.

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