05.02.2025
Sausage casings bulletin, May 2, 2025
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American Fats and Oils
Our daily price guide and commentary places emphasis on the American Fats & Oils market and the daily trades that effect pricing. Our team of Senior Analysts report pricing on BFT, CWG, UCO, DCO, Poultry Fat, Tech Tallow, Edible Tallow and Lard from multiple key regions within the United States. In addition to the emphasis on American Fats, our team releases a weekly International Animal Fats bulletin every Thursday to complete a macro view of the fats and oils market.
For those interested in price forecasting in these markets, we recommend looking at our Fats & Oils Forecast which looks at supply and demand curves as well as pricing changes 3 to 6 months out.
Daily Price Reporting On:
- Bleachable Fancy Tallow Price (Packer & Renderer)
- Choice White Grease Price
- Yellow Grease Price
- Used Cooking Oil Price + Forward
- Distiller’s Corn Oil Price + Forward
- No 2/Brown Price (50% ffa, no color)
- Stabilized Poultry Fat Price
- Technical Tallow Price
- Edible Tallow Price
- Lard Price
- Palm Stearin Price
- Poultry Fat Price
- Chicken Fat Price
Weekly Price Forecasting On:
- Bleachable Fancy Tallow Price
- Choice White Grease Price
- Distiller’s Corn Oil Price
- Used-Cooking Oil Price
- Choice White Grease Relative to Corn and Soybean Oil Pricing
- Relative Pricing of Bleachable Fancy Tallow to Palm Stearin
- Spreads on Choice White Grease, Yellow Grease and Distiller’s Corn Oil
- Hog Slaughter Forecast
- LCFS Quarterly Corn Oil Use in Renewable Diesel Production
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Ryan Standard
Ryan earned a degree in English literature and history from Monmouth College, while maintaining a parallel track in economics. With a background in logistics and sales, he joined The Jacobsen in 2007 as an analyst and the editor of the Animal Fats and Feed Bulletins, and contributor to the Biodiesel Bulletin. He has built a solid, reliable network of sources to inform his industry analysis.
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