A recent rise in prime lamb trade has seen Texel sired stock enjoying the better end of the prices at markets across the UK, with Texel bred cull ewes also in hot demand.
At Lanark last Monday the best of the Texel lambs sold to £236/head and 360p/kg, with cull ewes hitting £325/head, with others at £290 and £285.
Further north at Thainstone, Texel lambs reached a high of £205/head and 353p/kg, with cull ewes at 289.50p/kg.
Meanwhile, Texel lambs sold to 429.5p/kg at Kirkby Stephen, with others at 412.5p/kg and £204. Here the best cull ewes hit a high of £269. Elsewhere in the north of England, cull ewes sold to a high of £285 at Skipton, with Texel prime lambs hitting 405p/kg here.
St Boswells saw lambs sell to 386p/kg and £197/head, while cull ewes hit a top of £305, followed by another pen at £300. In the south-west of England, it was Texel cull ewes that lead the trade at Exeter, hitting highs of £298 and £275.
Melton Mowbray’s prime sale saw lambs selling to £190 and 356p/kg, here the cull ewes were again topped by Texels, selling to £290 and £282 and at Ludlow Texel cull ewes were again top of the pile, hitting a high of £259.