Suppliers report prices above €9/kg for lamb

Entries for the live sales at the marts are also continuing to tighten.

The tightening in supplies available for marketing has firmed the base under the factory prices this week, with the agents under more pressure to fill the requirements at the plants.

The later lambing of flocks is hitting supply as the remaining numbers of hoggets tighten, and any decent volume of spring lamb is still some weeks away.