Cattle marts report: Calm seas at marts as Brexit comes ashore, but will this picture hold in longer term?

All seems to be quiet in the marts this week. Perhaps “too damn quiet” as they say in the cowboy films, just before the Indians attack.

With many mart staff rightly taking this quieter period to have a break and sun themselves on faraway shores, while sipping margaritas, no doubt, cattle trading and indeed Brexit are the last things on many minds.

Back in the marts this week, the news that England is to leave the EU has been greeted with a mixture of dismay and silence.