PRIME lambs - 1485: A smaller entry with a very similar trade of 157.5p SQQ to 173.9p/kg, heavies to £80, £75, £74.20, £74, £73 and plenty over £70. Lighter standard lambs 32.5-39kg in very good demand to 173.8p, average 160.6p. Mediums for supermarket trade more selective to 173.8p, average 156.4p. Lambs now required a little leaner - in other words 'not too fat', but don't go too far towards lean. Farm assurance for 45-48kg supermarket weight very important.

Breeding ewes - 92: Just two vendors with end of season ewes but customers to bid in accordance. Top price of £98 for a smaller pen of Texel cross Zwartbles yearlings having been with rams from 1st September, other threes to full mouth of the same draft at £95 twice and £81. Suffolk cross yearlings having been with rams for three weeks sold at £93 and £76. Other older ewes from £75 to £83. Total clearance effected.

Store lambs - 4247: Another good weekly entry met another storming trade throughout. A large company of purchasers from west, north and south Wales and throughout the midland counties. With grass still growing and roots looking good despite the late planting season several men still keen to source lambs.

Strongest lambs to £70.20, others from £63 to £67.50. Good farming lambs slightly sharper from £58 to £62.50 throughout. Medium lambs from £53 to £57.80. Mule wethers look well sold from £55 to £60.20, other smaller Mules from £50 to £54.50.

A further draft of Cheviots well sold from £58 to £60 for the stronger bunches, with longer term lambs from £47 to £50. Well bred long keep lambs from £49 to £52.50 with harder bred and small lambs from £42 to £47.50, very small and plain from £35 to £40.

Ram lambs to £67, all strength £60 to £65, good farming bunches from £54 to £58, longer keep and hill bred types from £44 to £52 depending on condition and type. Plain sorts from £38 to £42.50.

A small entry of ewe lambs sold to £78 for a pen of Welsh Mules. Strong Suffolk cross Mules to £77, others £75.50. Small sorts from £57 to £67.50. Smaller Welsh Mules to £66 with very small from £53 to £57.50.

All ram lambs need to be declared and sold separate to bunches of mixed lambs.

Any ram lambs found in a bunch of mixed lambs not declared to the auctioneers will be subject to a price reduction. We have buyers for ram lambs so please do not put them in bunches of clean mixed lambs

Cull ewes - 1936: A larger entry with probably less strength in total. A respectable average, just a little less on the week, with again best ewes £90 to £110 and a top price of £115. Plenty of competition, not only amongst regular buyers but several feeding and breeding men present.

Average £/head - £58.98, Continental £115, Suffolks £111, North Country Mules £85.50, Welsh Mules £80, Speckles £60, Welsh £56.50, Cull Rams £110.50, Cull Wethers £60.

Rearing/weaned calves - 13: Mostly rearing calves this week topped at £430 for an exceptional 18 day old British Blue cross bull out of a Friesian cow from M/s W T and S M Edwards, Oldcastle. The draft of 4 Blue cross heifers, four weeks old ranged from £280 to £320. Two calves by a South Devon sold to £360 for the best bull, the other at £190.

Five Holstein bulls from one farm sold to £145 for a 17 day old, others from £55 to £120. Just one weaned beast, a dairy Shorthorn steer sold for £350. Next weeks' entry to include 10 Hereford and Limousin cross bulls and heifers, five to six months old.