Marts: Hoggets selling to £230 for 21kg at Downpatrick Mart

Leading prices are as follows.

Hoggets: Killinchy farmer 21kg at £230 which was kindly donated to Marie Curie Hospice and purchased by Flagstaff Exports.

Annacloy farmer 37.3kg £214. Drumena farmer 33kg £203. Annalcoy farmer 25kg £183. Ballygowan farmer 30kg £176. Ardglass farmer 24kg £171. Ballygowan farmer 25.3kg £170 and Killichy farmer 26.5 £167.

Lambs: Raholp farmer 26kg £182. Clough farmer 24kg £180. Downpatrick farmer 24kg £179. Lisburn farmer 25.5kg £178. Downpatrick farmer 23k £177.50. Castlewellan farmer 25.4kg £173.5. Ballynahinch farmer 23.5kg £173, 23kg £171. Downpatrick farmer 22kg £161 and Ballynahinch farmer 22.5kg £157.

Ewe with lamb: Ballyculter farmer £330. Downpatrick farmer £290, £280. Ardglass farmer £270. Downpatrick farmer £230 and Clough farmer £225.

Fat ewes: Drumena farmer 45.3kg £196. Downpatrick farmer 48kg £186. Inch farmer 56kg £184. Ardglass farmer 41kg £176. Inch farmer 54.5kg £175. Lisburn farmer 47.7kg £169. And Ballynahinch farmer 42kg £160.

Rams: Ballynoe farmer 42kg £154. Crossgar farmer 40kg £148 and Ballynoe farmer 44kg £95.

Downpatrick Mart drop calf sale held on Saturday 27th April 2024 saw a Downpatrick farmer topped the market on the day with lot 619, a Limousin bull calf at 68kg which sold for £375. Meanwhile, a Ballywalter farmer topped the female calf category on the day with lot 616, a Charolais heifer calf at 56kg which sold for £200.