Ballymena Mart, County Antrim

Dairy sale, Friday 16 October 2026

Cattle in sterling per kg liveweight; per head where the mart gave it. Week 42, 2026

A smaller show of 13 dairy cows reached £3500 for a calved Holstein heifer from W G Johnston, Ligoniel.

Ballymena Mart, sale report, 16 October 2026

Prices

CategoryWeight or typeAvg per headRange per headHead
Dairy cowsAll weightsderived from 9 lots£2,783£2,200 to £3,5009
Bold figures are the mart's own. Anything lighter was worked out by farmprices.ie from the lots the mart listed, because the report did not give that figure. A line marked "part derived" carries both: the mart stated some of it and the rest comes from its lot list.

Sample lots

9 lots
CategoryHeadBreedPrice
Dairy cows1HO£3,500
Dairy cows1HO£3,150
Dairy cows1£3,100
Dairy cows1£2,850
Dairy cows1FR£2,650
Dairy cows1HO£2,600
Dairy cows1FR£2,600
Dairy cows1HO£2,400
Dairy cows1HO£2,200

The lots the mart chose to print in its report, usually the better end of the trade. The averages above are the figure to quote.

Source

Read from the mart's own report, a web page at www.ballymenalivestockmarket.com. Fetched 20 October 2026.