BUILTH WELLS Ram sales on Monday yielded a strong trade for Suffolk rams, with prices up on average £73, from £208 to £281, compared with the last sale in 2000.

The top Suffolk price of 1,300gns went to Geoff Biddulph's Pexhill flock, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, for his ram by Marwood Millennium Man.

The grade 1 genotype ram lamb was bought by H J & R H Mildon, of North Devon.

The second top price in the Suffolk ring was paid by Jimmy Douglas of the Cairness flock in Aberdeenshire who bid 1,200gns for a ram lamb from Myfyr Evans, of the Rhaeadr flock, North Wales.