Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Was this late March? I took a trailer load of empty ewes to St Boswells that Monday. Trailers stacked up nothing moving. The drivers said there might not even be a sale as buyers had no orders. A lot of standing about head scratching. I got hold of JC but he spoke in riddles (standard!). Overheard young auctioneer saying he would be 'raffling' the ewes. I ended up taking mine home. Hogg trade well back, ewes were ok and I should have sold them but everything pointed the other wayYes just got caught with some store cattle and hoggs around the time of the first lockdown
They were often adrift one week hoggs were only averaging less than 1.50 I think I av 1.47 that week and a neighbour rang up wanting me to complain he only av 1.20 I felt a lot better after he’d been on the phone, wasn’t sure what moaning was going to achieve. It wasn’t just the lockdown to be fair too many hoggs had been stacked up for one of the festivals and there was a lot of uncertainty around then.