05.09.2025
Sausage casings bulletin, May 9, 2025

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Only light trade was reported for most of the week, with several market participants attending the Fastmarkets Biofuels & Feedstocks event in Chicago on May 13-15.
Fastmarkets’ price assessment for edible lard, fob Chicago was 42 cents per lb on 10 railcars, up by 1 cent per lb from 41 cent per lb on Thursday May 16.
Fastmarkets assessed technical tallow, fob Chicago at 48 cents per lb on 10 railcars, down from 48.5 cents per lb on Thursday.
Fastmarkets’ assessment of bleachable fancy tallow, packer Chicago averaged 41.5 cents per lb in the week to Friday, up by 1.47% from the previous week’s average of 40.9 cents per lb.
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