Finished Sheep: Spring lambs: A good increase in lambs forward resulting in 523 being offered on an unkind wet morning. Good buyer support helped the entry to level at 205.41p/kg, in line with or even ahead of other local centres.

Some very smart lambs from C G Ball, Brynderi, topped the day at £87 (40kg–218p/kg). G G Davies, Crucorney, sold to £85, as did J J Greenow, Llanthony. Amongst the lighter weights, D & S Hughes, Forest Coalpit, sold very smart 34kgs at £73.80 (216p/kg) and J P Sevenoaks & Sons some 28kgs at £60 (214p/kg). S B Jones, Pont Kemeys, sold smart 38.6kg lambs at £82.20 and R J Price, Ty Cooke, 41.1kg at £83.50.

Prospects look good with several key buyers still to get started and demand strong across all weights.

Hoggets: Smaller entry as most vendors now finish up. Trade keen especially for the better meated sorts, overall average 162.4p/kg. Hoggets sold to £70 from P Jones & M Trumper, with C Alford, Raglan, reaching £65.

Cull ewes and rams: A grand entry of 200 head sold to another impressive trade with strong competition between the buyers and a top price of £88.50. Many ewes sold very well above £70 with runs of Welsh ewes in excess of £50.

Couples: Good entry of ewe and lamb couples saw lots of competition with 10 Texel X hogs and 10 lambs from C T Watkins, Penrhos, selling at £128/couple. P & S Freeland, Craswall, sold two to three-year-old ewes with twins at £96.

Fodder: 28 round bales wheat straw, as seen £170; Eight round bales barley straw £120.

There will be a sale of 350 store cattle, cows and calves, and barren cows on Friday, June 5, starting at 11.30am with barren cows.