Animal Fats

Animal Fats

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Ryan was out of the office today and Bill Dieterichs is taking his place.  To bad so little went on this Friday.

A very slow day in the animal fat arena with only a few cars of BFT and Tech fat available, but no trading as I sense there were a lot of people sneaking out early.  Earlier in the week industrial tallow users were heavy bookers of tallow and there were flat price buyers for Jan/Feb at current trading levels, but the sellers have no…

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