Spring lambs (1,545): Excellent quality show with demand sustained to end.

More supermarket producers starting each week as hoggs start to ‘dry up’.

Premium weights 35-41kg. Don’t let the lambs get too big. Overall average 219.9p/kg, top price/head £101.00 for lambs grading 41kg.

Prime Hoggetts (809): A smaller entry as numbers nationally reduce but trade still firm provided you have plenty of meat. Top price £88.50. Overall average 171.1p/kg, top price/head £88.50 for lambs grading 53kg.

Store Hoggetts (21): Sold from £30 to £42.50 with a total clearance effected.

Ewes & Lambs (500): An excellent quality entry of 500 ewes/hoggs with their 648 lambs sold to a keen trade throughout, topping at £190 for fouryear- old ewes with two strong lambs.

Bunches of yearling Suffolk cross mules, again with twins, sold at £170 on four occasions. Other pens of ewes with strong lambs sold from £125 to £150, mostly for those with one-and-ahalf lambs of more, with older lowland ewes with stronger singles from £95 to £134. Hill type ewes again sold very well. Those with singles ranged from £51 to £75 with twins to £95.

The larger entry of hoggs with lambs sold to £154 for the first prize pen of Suffolk cross mules with other good black faced hoggs from £130 to £149.

The large selection of North Country mule hoggs with singles sold from £120 to £150. Smaller sorts with younger lambs from £92 to £96. Total clearance with the quality best represented by an average of £114.40.

Prize show and sale of couples: Best 10 black faced hoggs with lambs: 1 Mr R Williams, Brampton Bryan, £154, 2 Mr R C Samuel, Abereow, £140, 3 M/s Halford Parnership, Kempsey, £149.

Best 10 mule with lambs: 1 Mr D R Bufton, Walton, £150, 2 Mr L M Buckland, Ashleworth, £138, 3 Mr D R Bufton, Walton, £137.

Best 10 light faced hoggs with lambs: 1 Mr E H Price, Cayo Farm, £130.

Best 10 black faced ewes with lambs: 1-2 Mr R W J Hope, Trevonny, Grosmont, £170.

Best 10 mule ewes with lambs: 1 Mr E Powell, Longtown, £143, 2 M/s A R J and A Bevan, Glascwm, £110, 3 Mr E Powell £136.

Best 10 light faced ewes with lambs: 1 Mr S Farrington, Rushall, £147.

Show & sale of prime lambs: Best pen of five Continental lambs: 1 B Blandford & Son, Netherton, 41kg £101, 2 M/s G and S Yemm, Burley Gate, 39kg £92, 3 Tenbury Farm Supplies 36kg £90.50.

Best pen of five Suffolk lambs: 1 R Williams and Sons, Upper House, 42kg £89, 2 E H Handley and Sons, Hill Farm, 41kg £89, 3 R Williams and Sons, Upper House, 42kg £87.

Champion Pen: Sunderland Challenge Cup: B Blandford and Son, Netherton.

Cull Ewes (647): The most fantastic ewe trade, up £15/head on the week with the highest average ever known at £71.24. National shortage has brought trade flying up, but more needed. Top price £102, overall average £71.29, Suffolks to £102, Continentals £98.50, North Country mules £85, Welsh mules £81.50, speckles £65, Welsh £60, cull rams £90.

Pigs (102): Met with a fast trade on good quality but poorer sorts were harder to sell. Barren sows sold to 201p/kg with four from one farm averaging £195 a head. Some poor quality Kune pigs sold at £9/head.

Weaners (white) to £24-£38, (coloured) £12-£40, stores (white) £31, (coloured) £20-£50, porkers (white) £91, feeding sows £74, fat sows £148- £201, boars £80-£128, bacon hogs £112, bacon gilts £84.