Mart sales shrink, as the big day comes into view
REPRO FREE - For Rachel Martin & Alan Healy, Farming. The reserve champion at the fatstock show & sale in Skibbereen Mart a Belgian Blue cross heifer weighing 795 kilos sold for €3,800 is pictured with owner David Hegarty, Bandon, Dan Lynch & Niall Dwyer, Barrett Agri (sponsor). Photo O'Gorman Photography.
It’s certainly beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, at the marts.
Over the past week numbers of cattle on offer have been falling faster than the snow in the famous Shakin’ Stephens Christmas song.
