Mart Reports: As cattle numbers go down, prices go up

Latest mart prices from Dungarvan, Kanturk, Skibbereen, Macroom and Kilmallock.

Pictured at the Munster Branch Irish Angus Cattle Society heifer show & sale in Kilmallock Mart are the champion 'Portanes T Junction' shown by James Kelly for owner John Lynch, Kilmallock, & Peadar Glennon, General Manager, Irish Angus Cattle Society. Photo O'Gorman Photography.

Our first stop this week is to Dungarvan mart and to mart manager, Jonathan O’Sullivan, who gave us this report following Monday’s sale of cattle.

“We had an improved trade on Monday for all cattle. As numbers begin to decline, prices increased for both bullocks and heifers.”