Lamb prices down as French demand dips

Marts: A top price of €101 was paid for a pen of 54kg lambs which won the overall championship at the Annual Fat Stock Show and Sale of lambs at Bandon Mart yesterday.

The pen of five was exhibited by Ann Marie Horgan, Templemartin. The reserve championship went to a pen of five lambs exhibited by John Ryan, Ballinascarthy.

The lambs weighed 50 kgs and sold for €88. A pen of five lambs, averaging 50 kgs, exhibited by Dan O’Mahony, Ballygarvan was sold for €84. At the sale of commercial lambs, prices ranged up to €27 over €/kg.