On Wednesday (June 23) Enniscorthy Mart held it's weekly calf sale, with 124 calves on offer at the Co. Wexford based mart's sale.

Many marts are reporting smaller numbers but this is not the case at the Co. Wexford mart.

''The calf numbers are holding strong, with a big entry for the time of the year,'' according to the assistant mart manager, Kevin Murphy.

Starting with the continental bull calves, there was big demand from local farmers and exporters.

The continental bull calves on offer were selling from €175 for a Limousin cross (LMX) calf, up to €400 for a good quality Belgian Blue cross (BBX) bull.

Some sample continental bull prices:

Just like the bulls, the demand for continental heifers was good and prices ranged from €140 for a softer LMX heifer calf up to €360 for a stronger LMX heifer.

Some sample continental heifer prices:

Moving to the Friesian (FR) bulls on offer at Enniscorthy Mart, Kevin stated that: ''There was a good entry of Friesian bull calves on offer considering its getting late in the season.

Export type Friesians sold from €90 to €145, while stronger calves made from €150 up to €210 for a small number of reared Friesians.

Some sample Friesian prices:

A large proportion of the sale was made up of Hereford cross (HEX) and Angus cross (AAX) heifer calves, many of the softer types were purchased for export.

The heifers on offer ranged from €120 up to €330 for top quality suck calves. There was also a good entry of strong reared Hereford heifers on offer and they made from €265 up to €370.

Some sample Hereford and Angus heifer calf prices:

According to Kevin, there wasn’t as many Hereford and Angus bull calves on offer as previous weeks, and they were not as good a quality as the heifers.

The bulls calves that were on offer ranged from €140 up to €310. With most of the better bulls bought by exporters.

Some sample Hereford and Angus bull calf prices: