Livestock economist Stuart Ashworth.
WE ARE at the tail end of lambing in the hills of Argyll, but new season lambs from the south of Scotland and England are starting to appear on the market.
Old season lambs still make up the majority of prime sheep on the market with new season lambs only representing one per cent of auction markets sales in Scotland and 14 per cent in England and Wales in the past week. ‘While new season lamb volumes are lower than this time last year, total auction throughputs of prime sheep are continuing to run higher than last year, suggesting that there is still a tail of old season lambs to reach the market,’ said Stuart Ashworth, Quality Meat Scotland’s head of economics services.