Lawrie & Symington Ltd
Lanark Agricultural Centre
Friday 30th August
L&S held their weekly sale of 1650 store lambs and feeding ewes today where best quality sore lambs maintained recent high rates to a top of £72 for beltex from Thomson, Bordlands, and a large show of blackface lambs topping at £51.50 from Yieldshields. Smaller, longer keep lambs easily sold and more could have been sold to advantage. Feeding ewes topped at £90 for texels from McConnell, Bank, with blackface to £41 from Gillespie, Crosshill.
Ewes
TEX - £90 Bank, £82 Blackburn.
BF - £41 Crosshill, £36 Eastside.
SUF - £76 Hills of Dalserf.
X - £68 Hills of Dalserf.
Store lambs
TEX - £67.50 Gair & Lee Meadow, £65 Smiddyhill, £64.50 & £60 Thornyhills, £59.50 Blackburn & Hills of Dalserf, £59 Middlepart.
BEL - £72 & £70 Bordlands.
BF - £51.50 Thirstane Yieldshields, £50.50 Kirkton, £49.50 Dalveen, £49 & £46.50 Auchengruith, £46 Crosshill, £45 Dalveen, £45 Gair.
SUF - £55.50 Hills of Dalserf.
NCC - £58 Yieldshields & Thirstane.
CHE - £47 South Arran & Dalhanna.
X - £56.50 & £50 Ferniehaugh, £49 Middlepart.
