McCARTNEY'S of Kington report a good entry of 2090 sheep on June 9.

We had a good entry of sheep which sold to a better trade on the week through out all sections.

Hoggets: We had an end of season entry of 94 hogget's which sold to a good trade on the week.

The hogget's on offer were again heavier with very few pens under 45kgs.

Meat and quality continues to be key to a good trade.

Well bred and good meated hogget's sold up to £1.60ppk.

The hogget's averaged a good £1.58ppk all the way through the weight ranges and sold up to £1.65ppk.

All the hogget's averaged £69 per head up to £78 per head, which included the teeth up hoggets.

Spring Lambs: We had a good entry of 1773 spring lambs which sold to a better trade on the week.

The lambs were in good demand by the buyers in all weight ranges.

The overall SQQ averaged was £1.98ppk some 8ppk dearer than the previous days trades.

The light weight lambs under 34 kg were in excellent demand by the buyers and these lambs averaged £2.00ppk.

The heavier weight lambs over 45kg were also in good demand and sold to £91 per head for some 46.5kg lambs from KJ Powell.

All the lambs averaged £82 per head up to £91 per head.

Lambs under 32kg averaged 2.00ppk up to 2.05ppk.

Lambs between 32.5kg to 39kg averaged 1.97ppk up to 2.05ppk.

Lambs between 39.1kg to 45.5kg averaged 1.99ppk up to 2.10ppk.

Lambs between 45.6kg to 52kg averaged 1.97ppk up to 1.98ppk.

We are fortunate to have excellent buyer support from 6 buyers giving excellent competition for the hogget's and lambs.

Cull ewes, tups, wethers, store lambs: There was a smaller entry of 223 cull and store sheep, which sold to a good trade on the week despite the start of the ethnic festival at the beginning of the week.

The ewes were in good demand by the buyers on all sorts.

The small ewes were a particularly good trade again compared to the bigger fatter ewes.

The cull sheep sold to a top of £95 per head for some Charolais ewes from CM Morgan and averaged a good £70 per head.

Continental ewes averaged £88 per head and sold up to £95 per head.

Mule types ewes averaged £67 per head and sold up to £78 per head.

Welsh, Speckle and smaller hill type ewes averaged £55 per head and sold up to £65 per head.

Tups averaged £80 per head and sold up to £90 per head.

Small Store hoggets averaged £40 per head up to £45 per head.

Hoggets with teeth up averaged £68 per head up to £75 per head.

We have buyers requiring store hoggets and light hoggets each week to suffice their orders.

We have buyers for in excess of 3000 lambs and 750 cull sheep per week to meet our buyers' requirements.

McCartneys at Kington, offer an on-farm livestock grading and marketing advice service on a free of charge basis.

Kington Market is every Thursday, commencing at 11am with Hoggets followed by Cull sheep.

For further information please contact Gareth Wall on 01544 230316 or 0797414336.