06.27.2025
Sausage casings bulletin, June 27, 2025

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Soybean Oil Prices Climb on Oil/Meal Spreading, Palm Oil Sinks
Vegetable oil prices were mixed on Wednesday, with the overbought palm oil market sharply lower but soybean oil slightly higher on fund oil/meal spreading. Nearby soy oil futures increased more than 2/5 percent (August contract + 29 basis points per pound), with the advance underpinned by weather models that suggest the ridge in the northwestern Midwest and northern Plains will extend into next week. However, the near-term forecasts also indicate increased chances of rain remain for most other areas of the Corn Belt over the same period, which kept a lid on the upside. At the back end of the forward curve, all contracts saw slightly sharper gains but were up less than one percent as well (October 2022 contract +56 basis points per pound). The August/December spread, which rallied 42% on July 27, lost six percent to 3.15 cents.
Following a three-day rally that drove the benchmark contract more than seven…
06.24.2025
Correction to sausage casings, resale, North American hog runners, whiskered, ex-works North America on June 20: pricing notice
North American hog runners price published on Friday was incorrect due to a formula miscalculation. The original reported price of $1.63 has been corrected to the accurate rolling average...