Market Activity & Analysis

It’s been a couple of consecutively slow weeks for the US hide market with packers and tanners in a stalemate and prices stuck sideways. The demand has been sluggish with tanners complaining about the lack of orders, low leather prices and a litany of other issues from environmental regulations and the collapsed drop split market to the strong US dollar. Strong kills in the US have slaughter nearing 600,000 head with year-to-date kill trending…