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Correction to US hide index, assessments on January 21

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-CH-0082 hide index, fob US, as well as its AG-CH-0034, AG-CH-0032, AG-CH-0035 and AG-CH-0033 hide assessments, which were published incorrectly on January 21.

January 21, 2026
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Agriculture Hides, leather and industrials Pricing notice United States

The following prices have been corrected:

AG-CH-0082 Hide index, fob US, $/pc was published incorrectly at $13.8875 per piece. This has been corrected to $13.7750 per piece.

AG-CH-0034 Hides, butt branded steers, regular-weight, $/piece was published incorrectly at $11.00-18.00 per piece. This has been corrected to $11.50-18.00 per piece.

AG-CH-0032 Hides, butt branded steers, light-weight, $/piece was published incorrectly at $12.00-19.50 per piece. This has been corrected to $11.00-17.00 per piece.

AG-CH-0035 Hides, butt branded steers, regular-weight, $/lb was published incorrectly at $0.1275-0.2075 per lb. This has been corrected to $0.1350-0.2075 per lb.

AG-CH-0033 Hides, butt branded steers, light-weight, $/lb was published incorrectly at $0.1475-0.2375 per lb. This has been corrected to $0.1350-0.2125 per lb.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect these changes.

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 email pricing@fastmarkets.com and industrialagriculture@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “RE: Butt Branded Steers Hides Prices.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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