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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 9A11 Milking cows and store stock market prices1 by month, 1997 |
(£ per head) |
Average |
Jan |
Feb |
March |
April |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
|
| Dairy cattle | |||||||||||||
| Cows & heifers in milk and in-calf: | |||||||||||||
| Ayrshire | 519.39 |
717.20 |
570.55 |
661.00 |
567.83 |
490.70 |
496.69 |
511.16 |
421.05 |
462.91 |
470.81 |
488.67 |
491.00 |
| Friesian | 676.68 |
850.19 |
810.59 |
731.91 |
686.91 |
693.43 |
636.45 |
647.73 |
648.07 |
570.29 |
603.65 |
669.13 |
640.45 |
| Dairy stores (all breeds): | |||||||||||||
| 2 years old and over | 468.90 |
- |
425.00 |
485.00 |
451.00 |
575.00 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
487.50 |
- |
- |
| 1 year to 2 years | 337.62 |
250.00 |
- |
- |
408.39 |
361.67 |
- |
- |
- |
324.78 |
296.00 |
285.00 |
360.00 |
| Under 1 year | 80.22 |
87.57 |
89.80 |
86.23 |
88.59 |
83.06 |
74.45 |
73.91 |
72.78 |
79.37 |
79.28 |
77.45 |
71.63 |
| Beef Cattle | |||||||||||||
| Cows & heifers in milk and in-calf | 654.39 |
749.12 |
706.32 |
723.09 |
712.62 |
694.87 |
699.89 |
652.66 |
647.19 |
663.99 |
603.46 |
513.29 |
532.31 |
| Beef stores: | |||||||||||||
| 2 years and over | 493.10 |
565.12 |
556.00 |
585.02 |
534.31 |
509.55 |
507.54 |
481.38 |
476.44 |
485.23 |
471.39 |
442.75 |
412.64 |
| 1 year to 2 years | 433.57 |
499.12 |
481.81 |
441.85 |
434.85 |
399.36 |
388.17 |
417.05 |
430.42 |
440.82 |
427.51 |
384.44 |
363.48 |
| Weaned calves | 358.67 |
380.62 |
394.60 |
354.06 |
364.78 |
327.04 |
313.42 |
348.36 |
373.69 |
439.05 |
352.32 |
305.02 |
292.81 |
| Young calves for rearing | 96.21 |
105.26 |
110.82 |
105.00 |
104.26 |
97.91 |
98.26 |
93.60 |
88.17 |
91.57 |
87.75 |
82.84 |
83.33 |
| Irish store cattle | - |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Others under 1 Year | 287.79 |
276.35 |
331.34 |
323.82 |
280.20 |
283.26 |
290.02 |
305.65 |
293.97 |
268.78 |
282.36 |
216.39 |
220.70 |
| Sheep: | |||||||||||||
| Ewes for Breeding: | |||||||||||||
| Blackface | 40.34 |
36.44 |
53.58 |
63.11 |
- |
32.00 |
- |
- |
25.18 |
44.94 |
38.97 |
22.18 |
- |
| Cheviot | 42.07 |
51.88 |
58.41 |
- |
56.00 |
33.50 |
- |
45.72 |
36.86 |
44.64 |
41.37 |
29.22 |
19.49 |
| With lambs at foot | 88.12 |
105.24 |
104.72 |
98.07 |
96.86 |
83.78 |
78.53 |
71.15 |
47.77 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Hoggs: | |||||||||||||
| Blackface | 44.02 |
35.13 |
34.16 |
35.74 |
36.36 |
42.03 |
70.27 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Halfbred | 65.95 |
51.53 |
57.99 |
73.11 |
57.61 |
35.00 |
- |
27.00 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Cheviot | 44.60 |
45.67 |
46.36 |
43.81 |
38.40 |
39.76 |
33.31 |
28.00 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Greyface | 45.13 |
43.18 |
42.77 |
42.98 |
40.66 |
53.65 |
65.25 |
- |
- |
- |
34.87 |
- |
- |
| Down cross | 46.63 |
47.88 |
46.47 |
47.17 |
41.32 |
39.87 |
32.30 |
42.81 |
34.60 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Lambs: | |||||||||||||
| Blackface | 33.43 |
- |
- |
34.67 |
33.97 |
- |
- |
31.50 |
35.87 |
45.57 |
26.26 |
22.74 |
21.69 |
| Halfbred | 59.72 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
33.50 |
71.05 |
52.44 |
42.74 |
38.07 |
31.35 |
| Cheviot | 35.61 |
44.87 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
35.67 |
36.77 |
37.63 |
33.46 |
29.50 |
24.27 |
| Greyface | 53.55 |
38.00 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
33.00 |
62.91 |
52.38 |
38.65 |
30.56 |
31.87 |
| Down cross | 40.73 |
- |
- |
- |
29.50 |
35.00 |
37.43 |
37.80 |
42.48 |
42.44 |
39.54 |
39.68 |
30.55 |
| Pigs: | |||||||||||||
| 6 to 10 weeks | 30.20 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
34.00 |
29.00 |
19.00 |
- |
- |
29.68 |
- |
| 10 to 14 weeks | 29.85 |
27.95 |
31.70 |
27.70 |
28.95 |
38.21 |
38.31 |
41.84 |
24.51 |
27.96 |
25.98 |
26.41 |
- |
Source: SOAEFD Economics and Statistics Branch 2 |
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