AUCTIONEERS RG and RB Williams report that the new year brought a very nice entry of cattle which met a flying trade at the Ross-on-Wye Livestock sale on January 5.

A great show of heavy weight steers weighing over 640kg averaged 400p per kilogramme - £2,757 per head with well fleshed butcher cattle selling consistently between 380p and 418p per kilogramme.

The entry of cattle was easily sold with more cattle required to meet demand for January.

The top vendor was GH & GG Savidge, of Dean Common Farm.

A nice entry of cull cows peaking at £2,069 – 280p per kilogramme with any number of cows selling between 240p and 270p per kilogramme with strong demand shown throughout the sale.

The overall average sale price of cows was £1,805 - 252p per kilogramme.

The top vendor was M & R Sammons of Nant Farm.

There was a smaller entry of hoggs because of the snowfall, which met a fast trade peaking at £170 on several occasions – 380p per kilogramme.

The strongest demand was shown for those weighing between 42kg and 46kg with the well fleshed hoggs selling between 350p and 380p per kilogramme. Heavy weight hoggs met a fast trade selling to £170 per head with any number of hoggs weighing in excess of 48kg traded between £160 and £170. More lambs required to meet demand from buyers. The overall average price of Hoggs was £152/head.

The top vendors were S T Redman of Spinning Wheel Court; D A Davies of Winters Farm and DA & RH Griffiths of Cefn Llytha Farm.

A larger entry of cull ewes and rams topped at £222 with any number of ewes selling between £180 and £222. Size and meat were the order of the day with smaller of leaner eves trading hands between £130 and £170.

The top vendors were K A Williams of The Laurels and G G Chandler & Son of Cefn Clytha.