PRIME Lambs - 3300: A wonderful entry of numbers with a large quantity of tups with quality, a wonderful trade - SQQ 182.7p, but a huge amount of lean tup lambs dropped the average by at best 5p. Best export 212.3p, 202.5p, 200p with all best lambs 190p+. Heavies to £95, £94.50, £94, £92, £91.80, £90. The Festival of Ede on September 12 meant that a vast amount of sheep are needed both for the home trade and abroad. Euro at 84p means export is a little more difficult but a vast number of sheep will be sold this week which will reduce numbers available in the next few weeks which are traditionally some of the most selective of the year but the trade this year is the best in the last five years.

Breeding ewes - 2084: What a sale! More life, more bidders with a total clearance on the larger, better quality entry. Ewes sold to £170 for 2 special pure bred Texel yearlings. Commercial ewes sold to more interest with good conformation strong bodied Texel yearlings from £124 to £145. Smaller Texels all to a demand - prices from £95 to £120. A large entry of Suffolk cross yearlings topped at £136 for one of the last lots to be sold. Other smarter, clean faced from £118 to £134. Smaller harder bred from £90 to £116. The larger entry of Welsh Mules sold to £140 for a pen of dark coloured sorts, others from £112 to £133. White faced Mules are always popular selling to £124. Many were smaller and sold from £100 to £118. Older ewes sold to £136 for exceptional 2 year old Texel cross with others from the same farm at £135. Other 2, 3 and 4 year old Texel cross from £80 to £102 depending on size and shape. Suffolk cross 3's and 4's from £88 to £104. Sweet 2 year olds at £108. Welsh Mule full mouth ranged from £78 to £88. Dorset 3 year olds from £68 to £85. Older hill ewes sold to more interest. Full mouth Speckles at £61 and £81. Lleyn 3's and 4's at £87. Another good entry expected next week.

Store lambs - 3344: A huge entry of lambs forward sold to a super trade throughout. A large crowd of men from all parts of the county keen to get lambs bought. Strongest bunches maintained recent levels although the sheep would not be as strong or forward. Strongest bunches £65 to £73.80, plenty of lambs trading in the late £60's. Good farming lambs looking well sold throughout with good bunches from £62 to £64.80. Medium term lambs from £57 to £61.50. Well bred longer term sorts from £52 to £56.50. Plainer sorts from £47 to £51.50. Hill type sheep forward in more number this week and generally from £40 to £50 depending on size and condition. Stronger sorts just in the early £50's. Very small and plain types £32 to £40. Ram lambs forward in larger numbers due to the forthcoming festival. Meat was the order of the day, strong forward sorts to £80.50. Others from £67 to £77.50. Stronger framed tup lambs from £58 to £65. Plainer farming sorts £50-£57.50. Hill bred and harder bred sorts from £40 to £55 depending on condition and frame. A few more ewe lambs forward which mainly consisted of Suffolk cross Mules. These topped at £94 for Suffolk cross North Country Mules. Other Suffolk cross Mules to £90, others from £82 to £87. Overall average £59.60.

Cull ewes - 2744: Another serious entry of ewes embraced with a trade as good as its been, certainly helped by 9 additional buyers wanting grazing ewes and those good underneath types. A real benefit of a green market! With our regular men we had 15, yes,15 buyers for cull ewes. The trade stuck it right to the end with Texels in the loading bays making £105/head! With this sort of competition and buying support we can manage 3000 ewes every week. Keep them coming.

Average £/head - £57.37.

Continental £124.50.

Suffolks £100.

North Country Mules £88.

Welsh Mules £81.

Speckles £70.

Welsh £70.

Cull Rams £122.

Cull Wethers £83.

Rearing/weaned calves - 60: A much larger entry of rearing calves met a consistent trade throughout with a total clearance. Top price was £380 for a 33 day Limousin cross bull from Mr J E Bunnion, Lower House Farm, with other strong continental bull calves from £290 to £330. A feature of this weeks' sale was both the quality and numbers of Hereford cross calves sired by named bulls. The bull calves all sold from £205 to £290. Heifers sold from £210 to £240. Angus cross bull calves from £140 to £270. Good Charolais cross heifer calves sold from £265 to £285. Holstein bull calves were all smaller sorts from £10 to £55. Just 9 weaned sorts - a strong Simmental cross Hereford at £555, with 3 month old Friesian bulls all from £98 to £110.

Breeding rams - 76: Again this week the interest in rams improves and with it the trade to 650Gns. Quality, size and shape every time - second quality far more difficult to place.

Charollais yearlings 480, 460, 440, 400.

Charollais 2 years 230, 160.

Beltex cross Texels yearlings 540, 520, 520, 480.

Texel yearlings 650, 580, 560, 500.