Up to 570c/kg paid as lamb scarcity boosts market

Sheepmet market report

At the annual fatstock show & sale in Bandon mart are the reserve champions, a pen of five suffolk cross lambs average weight 49 kilos that sold for Û 100 each. From left are Pat McCarthy, mart manager, Hugh Kelleher representing owner Jim Tait, Whitegate, Liam McCarthy, Cork Marts buying for Michael Twomey, Macroom & John Stanley, mart chairman.Photo Fergal O'Gorman

The strong trade for lambs continues at factories this week, and demand and prices have taken a leap forward at the marts, where the entries are low.

Quoted prices at the factories remain at 520-540 cents/kg, with the majority of the processors offering at the lower end of that range.