Bord Bia targets holiday weekend sheepmeat market

PRICES for new season and older stock have eased at the factories again this week, as demand weakened in the aftermath of the Easter holidays.

Overall, quotes on Tuesday were back as much as 6 cents/kg (2p/lb) for both spring lamb and hoggets at the factories, compared to a week previous, after further slippage from Monday’s opening offers to producers.

Suppliers of new season lamb were being offered 476 cents/kg (170p/lb) with the base price for hoggets varying from 392 back to 386 cents/kg (140p to 138p/lb).