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Simmental bulls to a top of 3,100gns at Ballymena Ballymena Mart was the venue for the NI Simmental Cattle Breeders’ Club’s evening show and sale of pedigree and commercial livestock. Bulls reached a ceiling of 3,100gns, while pedigree females sold to a top of 2,200gns. In the commercial section cows with calf at foot peaked […]

MULTIBREED BEEF BULL SALE @ BALLYMENA LIVESTOCK MARKET  51 lots were catalogued for the June sale of beef bred bulls.  Leading prices as follows:- E Sherrard, Coleraine Lim 2800gns, JP & C Patterson, Ballynahinch Char 2700gns, Stephen McGookin Lim 2700gns, Moses Irwin, Fintona AA 2300gns, Paul Whyte, Maghera Lim 2300gns, E Sherrard Lim 2300gns, E […]

On Saturday 9th June, Ballymena Livestock Markets’ Machinery Sale was held at the market yard premises on the Woodside Road.  With just under 900  lots on the premises the sale was slightly smaller than normal but with the sun on everyone’s back the trade was furious. Over the week leading up to the sale, men came from far […]

Suffolk Cheviot & Continental X Breeding sheep sale  The first of the annual hogget sales at Ballymena Mart attracted a massive entry of 3700 sheep and despite the heavily increased numbers the trade recorded was excellent especially for good quality Suffolk Cheviot hoggets and lambs. The sale saw a 99.7% clearance in the hogget ring and returned […]