US perspective – 23.4.13
23/04/2013
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
Last week saw the end of an impressive seven week run-up in big packer hide prices that saw packers add almost $7 a hide to prices which equates to an almost 8% rise in hide prices. The majority of sources we spoke with reported a relatively uneventful week of trading last week and popular opinion of the trade is that it is very unlikely that packers cleared their slaughter.