Cattle Slaughter Stabilizes Near 2019 Levels

Cattle Slaughter Stabilizes Near 2019 Levels

It was an active Monday with renderer bleachable fancy tallow (BFT-R) and technical tallow offered down into/through the Chicago market today and unsold as of press time. Yellow grease traded lower out of the San Francisco market late on Friday, but the top end of the range has been consistent into the renewables sector. Distillers corn oil traded lower out of the IL/WI market and into the Manly, IA market. 

Cattle slaughter finished last week at a robust 658,000 head, down 1.6 percent from a year ago and up 3 percent relative to the year prior. Slaughter is forecast to move higher over the next six weeks. This week, slaughter is projected out at…

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