There is no overall change in prices on offer for lambs at factories for this week, with any tweaking in the upwards direction, thanks to continuing strong demand and relatively tight supply.

Stronger demand for tighter supplies of lambs is delivering better returns to producers from the factories this week.

THERE is an overall very positive tone to the trade for lambs at factories this week, with improved prices across the country.

THERE has been further improvement in the trade for lambs at factories this week.

LAMB prices are stable at factories this week, promising a favourable end to the best year of lamb prices for a long time, rewarding sheep farmers who stayed with the business through the difficult years.

THE upward trend in lamb prices at factories has been maintained this week.

THE upward price trend in the lamb trade has been maintained this week.

IT’S summer in November for sheep farmers, as prices for lambs advance to levels usually seen in June.

IT has been another happy week for sheep farmers, as lamb prices significantly improved at the factories.

THERE has been further slippage in lamb prices at some processing plants this week, reflecting market instability on the continent.

THERE is a steadier tone to the trade for lambs at factories this week.

THERE is a much easier tone to the trade for lambs at factories for this week.

THERE is very little overall change in quoted prices for lambs at factories for this week.

THERE is no joy for sheep farmers in the prices quoted for their lambs at factories this week.

LAMB prices at the factories have improved this week and demand for hoggets continues strong.

IT is another very positive week for sheep farmers, with further price improvements at the factories.

THERE is a steadier tone to the trade for lambs at factories this week.

DEMAND for lambs has weakened at factories this week.

LAMB prices are steady at the factories this week, at the level to which they dropped in recent weeks.

IT HAS been yet another bad week for lamb producers, seeing prices cut by as much as 15 cents/kg (5p/lb).

LAMB producers are learning to their cost this week that volatility is not confined to the financial markets, as lamb prices at the factories tumble like nine-pins.

THERE was a sense of relief for lamb producers as prices steadied this week after recent market turmoil had robbed their profit margins.

SHEEP farmers’ hopes for the trade this week have been shattered by the suddenness and scale of the decline in prices on offer for new season lambs.

Marts: The supply of spring lamb for Easter celebrations has been tight, reflecting the early Easter this year and the swing away from early spring lamb production by producers because of the poor returns.

Marts: There were two shades to the livestock trade across the country yesterday, with demand outstripping supply for forward store cattle at the marts, while sheep producers are very disappointed with the factory trade for hoggets, which continues sluggish.

LAMB prices are continuing to ease back with weaker trade at factories and marts undermining the boost that resulted from the most recent outbreaks of foot and mouth in Britain.

THEY say that history rarely repeats exactly, but Irish sheep producers can prove that belief wrong, much to their economic benefit as prices for lambs rocket in the wake of the new outbreak of FMD in Britain.

LAMB prices retained gains in excess of 20% at the factories and improvements of up to €12 per head in the live trade at the marts in yesterday’s trading.

A €22.5 million land deal is the sale of the half-century for a Munster livestock mart.

UP to €3/kg is being paid for top quality Belgian Blue weanlings for export as the trade for autumn 2007 builds up at the live sales at the marts around the country.

LAMB prices have lost almost all of the recent gains in prices that resulted from increased demand in the wake of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain.

FOOT and mouth in Britain has added more than 50 cents/kg to lamb prices over the past week, as demand for supplies increased at factories.

THERE are positive signs for sheep farmers, although the best that can be said for sure yet is that the pace of the price decline has eased.

LAMB prices on the continent have eased, following an increase in supply, and this trend has been reflected in lower prices at Irish factories this week.

LAMB prices have steadied over the past week, a welcome change for sheep farmers from the downward trend of previous weeks.

Prices for heavy bullocks eased yesterday, while prices for medium weight and light stores were improved, in a mixed trade at the marts.

The lamb trade has retained the gains of the past two weeks, without any further improvement in price paid by processors this week.

CORK County Council will continue to collect clean silage wrap at designated sites up to July 3.

There was a strong trade for the quality fleshy heifers at Fermoy Mart yesterday, where the bullocks met with a steady trade at slightly stronger prices than last week.

The ‘sky high’ prices that quality bullocks were realising in recent weeks has eased slightly — still making strong prices — but the trade has quietened for the plainer and younger cattle at the mart sales. Heavy heifers are continuing to sell very well.

THE focus is on spring lamb for Easter, but supplies are very scarce.

Marts: A larger showing of cattle at the mart sales is not deterring an improved trade for beef and forward stores with further gains at yesterday’s sales particularly for quality.

Marts: The longer term effects of the drought is impacting with greater severity on the trade for young cattle at the marts, where the demand and prices were maintained for the forward animals yesterday.

LAMB prices continued to slip at the factories in another disappointing week for sheep farmers, the result of which has been a total price reduction of up to 16 cents/kg (6p/lb).