Tightening supplies drive prices up – with big demand for heavy stock
Numbers predicted to tighten further
Fatten them up: Sheep and lambs at Cloonageeher, Co Longford. Photo: Gerry Faughnan
Martin Coughlan
Factory quotes for sheep rose yesterday as supplies continue to tighten.
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