Some shippers insisting on 400kg plus weanlings

Most sales yards this week have seen yet another surge in numbers, as traditional autumn selling gets into full swing.

With numbers of stock presented for sale in the last three weeks doubled, being around the pens in a mart after the selling has finished isn’t for the faint hearted.

With buyers and yard men sorting and re-penning, moving and loading, it is — as Sean Leahy of Corrin mart put it — “A form of chaos, but organised”.