Correction to Hides, branded cows and heavy native cows prices on August 8, 2025

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-CH-0054 Hides, branded cows, northern, $/piece, AG-CH-0056 Hides, branded cows, southwestern, $/piece, AG-CH-0050 Hides, heavy native cows, northern, $/piece, and AG-CH-0052 Hides, heavy native cows, southwestern, $/piece, which were published incorrectly on August 8, 2025.

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-CH-0054 Hides, branded cows, northern, $/piece, AG-CH-0056 Hides, branded cows, southwestern, $/piece, AG-CH-0050 Hides, heavy native cows, northern, $/piece, and AG-CH-0052 Hides, heavy native cows, southwestern, $/piece, which were published incorrectly on August 8, 2025.

Fastmarkets has corrected the following prices:

  • AG-CH-0054 Hides, branded cows, northern, $/piece was corrected to $2.50-4.00 per piece after it was published incorrectly at $2.50-2.50 per piece.
  • AG-CH-0056 Hides, branded cows, southwestern, $/piece was corrected to $2.00-3.00 per piece after it was incorrectly published at $2.00-2.25 per piece.
  • AG-CH-0050 Hides, heavy native cows, northern, $/piece was corrected to $4.50-6.00 per piece after it was incorrectly published at $3.50-5.00 per piece.
  • AG-CH-0052 Hides, heavy native cows, southwestern, $/piece was corrected to $4.00-5.50 per piece after it was incorrectly published at $3.00-4.50 per piece.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets Industrial Agriculture package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these hide prices, please contact Lexi Watts by email a pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Lexi RE: Cow Hides Prices.”

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To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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