- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Shrewsbury do not - I checked with the auctioneer back when we were selling - they said no point. However, on their invoices they had a note saying buyers wanted lambs to be FA - told them straight what I thought of that.They still do at Welshpool, which must surely be one of the biggest fat lamb marts in the country. Some of the abattoir buyers can only bid on FA lambs, but who knows what fraud goes on later on.
It would be interesting to do a proper comparison of similar types of lambs at supermarket/export weights that are FA and not. I haven’t done it for a while but, when I have, there has sometimes (not always) been around an 8p/kg premium.