Monday, July 14. Fortnightly red market sale of livestock. Forward: 25 prime and OTM cattle. Prices - Prime Bulls: Limousin to 189.5 pence per kilogram, or £1,328.30 each; British Blue 162.5, 1,290.25; Blonde d’Aquitaine 179.5, 1,172.14; Black & White 149.5, 1,107.80.
ALSO: Wednesday, July 9. Weekly sale of primestock and fortnightly sale of rearing calves. Forward: 1,385 prime sheep, comprising 880 prime lambs, 505 cast ewes and rams, 60 rearing calves. Prices - Prime lambs: Suffolk to £92 or 180 pence per kilogram; Texel 90 (x3), 226; Continental 78.50, 197; Charollais 76. Cast ewes: Texel 109; Continental 105; Suffolk 99; Mule 90; Beltex 84; Bluefaced Leicester 76; Cheviot 71; Swaledale 66; Scotch 63; Herdwick 44. Cast rams: Bluefaced Leicester 110; Scotch 84; Continental 81; Swaledale 70. Rearing calves: Bulls: British Blue 390; Limousin 260; Aberdeen Angus 210; Black and White 130. Heifers: British Blue 340.
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