Farm prices - Hawes Auction Mart (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Farm prices - Hawes Auction Mart
1:35pm Tuesday 14th August 2012 in Farm & country By Vicky Goodall
HAWES: Tuesday, August 7. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 995 prime lambs, 104 cast ewes and rams and 6 cull cows. Prices - Prime Lambs: Lights to 194 pence per kilo (average 167.8p); Standards 193 (176.5); Mediums 197 (176.7); Continental to 193 pence per kilo, or £84.50 each; Suffolk 191, 80; Mules 172, 70; Horned 170, 59.50. Cast Ewes: Horned to £57.50 each (average £42.81); Polled 78 (65.02). Cast Rams: Horned 49.50. Cull Cows: Black and White to 108 pence per kilo (average 98p); Continental 140 (102.5).