LAWRIE & SYMINGTON
THE FORFAR MART
WEDNESDAY, 8tH JUNE, 2022
Lawrie & Symington, Forfar held their sale of 16 Prime Cattle, 5 OTM’s and 301 Prime Lambs, Ewes and Rams and Breeding Sheep.
PRIME CATTLE
Bullocks (3) Sold to a top of 2.75p per kg for a 652 kg Simmental from Bonhard and to £1951.04 for a 728 kg A.A. from the Gask to average 2.71p.
Heifers (13) Sold to a top of 2.83p per kg for a 600 kg Limousin from West Bog and to £1807.68 for a 672 kg Limousin from Pityot to average 2.72p.
Leading Prices per kg:-
Bullocks –
Lim. 2.70p Bonhard; A.A. 2.68p Gask.
Heifers –
Lim. 2.81p Gask, 2.74p Chapel of Barras, 2.72p Pityot, 2.70p West Bog (twice) & Pityot (twice), Pityot & Chapel of Barras
Leading Prices per head:-
Bullocks –
Sim. £1793 Bonhard; Lim. £1593 Bonhard.
Heifers –
Lim. £1740.80 & £1701 Pityot, £1698 West Bog, £1671.40 Chapel of Barras, £1668.60 & £1636.20 West Bog, £1611.20 Pityot.
COWS (5)
A.A. x £1390 (2.19p) Shandford
Lim. x £1350 (2.05p) Shandford
Sim. X £1200 (1.89p) Shandford, £900 (1.61) Scobshaugh
PRIME SHEEP
PRIME LAMBS (167) – Hitting the hot spot jointly today was F.H. Stewart, Wellbank Mains Farm with a cracking Texel scaling 46 kg and then K.A. Robertson, Over Baldinnie with his West Fife Show Reserve Champion pen of 3 Texels scaling 48 kg both realising £158.
Top price per kilo for lambs was 346.5p for a pen of 3 shapely Texel Cross scaling 43kg consigned by R. Anderson, Newton of Guthrie.
Leading Prices per head –
Tex. - £156 Grange of Conon & Over Baldinnie, £155 Upper Tulloes, £154 Southtown of Melgund, £153.50 Grange of Conon, £152 Wellbank Mains Farm & Little Fithie
Suff. - £153 Southtown of Melgund, £152 Newton of Guthrie, £150 Knockhill, £149 & £147 Southtown of Melgund, £144.50 Little Fithie, £141 Drumyellow
Cont. - £155 & £152 (twice) & £151.50 Scobshaugh
Jacob - £120 Heughhead
Leading Prices per kg. –
Tex. – 346.4p & 345.3p Grange of Conon, 344.2p Newton of Guthrie, 343.5p & 337.8p Wellbank Mains Farm, 341.1p Grange of Conon, 338.6p Little Fithie
Suff. – 336p Little Fithie, 323.9p & 319.6p Southtown of Melgund, 320.5p Drumyellow
Cont. – 345.5p, 340.9p & 327.8p Scobshaugh
PRIME HOGGS – (35)
Leading Prices per kg -
Tex. - £140 Wairds of Alpity & Southtown of Melgund, £124 Southtown of Melgund, £115 Wairds of Alpity, £113 & £109 Mill of Inverarity
Suff. - £135 & £102 Knockhill
Chev. - £116 Knockhill
Cross - £100 Knockhill
Shet. - £89 & £81 Rossie H.F.
Leading Prices per kg –
Tex. – 286.8p & 209.3p Mill of Inverarity, 209p Southtown of Melgund, 202.5p Wairds of Alpity, 200p Knockhill
Suff. – 259.6p Knockhill
Chev. – 263.6p Knockhill
Shet. – 211.9p Rossie H.F.
CAST SHEEP – (99) – Top price per head for ewes wad £176 for a tremendous Texel consigned by J. Jackson, Southtown of Melgund.
Rams realised £180 for a superb Suffolk from T.M. & R. Wilson, Wairds of Alpity.
EWES -
Tex. - £171 & £169 Meikle Tullo, £162 & £144 Midtown of Barras, £160 Scobshaugh
Belt. - £146 Scobshaugh
Hamp. - £146 & £133 Scobshaugh
Suff. - £155 & £142.50 Knockhill
Cont. - £133 Southtown of Melgund
Cross - £118 Wairds of Alpity, £113 Southtown of Melgund
BDM - £136 Scobshaugh
RAMS –
Tex. - £159 Meikle Tullo
Belt. - £100 Mill of Inverarity
