Much better mart trade for butcher’s lambs

LAMB prices are steady at the factories this week, at the level to which they dropped in recent weeks.

Base prices were ranging from 350 to 348 cents/kg (125p or 124p/lb) at the plants Tuesday, although some had opened a shade lower for Monday’s kill.

The supply of lambs to Irish factories remains well down on this time last year, at less than 50,000 head per week, compared to almost 70,000 head per week going through the plants in 2007.