Lawrie & Symington Ltd
Lanark Agricultural Centre
23rd January 2026
Lawrie & Symington Ltd held their final Friday sale of 914 store & breeding sheep.
Principal Prices:
BREEDING SHEEP:
The 330 in-lamb ewes forward met a full ring of very keen buyers, with a trade the like of which has not been seen before. Many more in-lamb sheep could have been sold to advantage. The main dispersal on behalf of High Parks Farm saw 317 head of 2–4 crop ewes averaging an astonishing £289.37, topping at £320 for a pen of Mule ewes scanned at 200%. DG Farming, Clarencefield, also sold a pen of 3-crop Suffolk cross Hebridean ewes scanned at 150% to Beltex at £320.
From High Parks Farm:
TEX - £315 (x2), £310 (twice), £300, £295 (x2), £290, £285, £280
CHE - £290
BEL - £260 & £255 (x3)
SUF - £275 & £270
X - £320, £315, £290 & £285
BDM- £305 & £270
ABE - £310 & £305
From DG Farming, The Brands
BEL - £305
SUF - £320
X - £265
STORE HOGGS:
The 584 store hoggs forward were a proper tidy-up show, but still sold to recent high rates, topping at £129 for Texels from Low Kittymuir. Blackface hoggs reached £95 from Greyside Farm.
TEX - £129 Low Kittymuir, £123 & £115 Castlehill, £118 Castlebrocket & Low Kittymuir, £111 Back Akelday, Swaites & Castlebrocket, £108 Swaites, £106 Castlebrocket
BF - £95 Greyside, £92 Mitchellhill (twice) & Overburns, £90 Glencaple, £80 Glencaple, Mitchellslacks & Dalbalir
SUF - £118 Low Kittymuir
NCC - £76 & £75 Yeldabrek
CHE - £71 Yeldabrek
CONT - £82 Mosslands
X - £95 Barr, £92 & £90 Overburns
