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Inedible packer bleachable tallow, Chicago

Inedible packer bleachable tallow at Chicago, a rendered beef fat used as a biofuel feedstock. USDA quotes it in dollars per hundredweight, which is the same number as cents per pound.

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50.00 ¢/lb
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Week to Oct 23
Year ago
49.25
The chart appears once four reports have been published. This site started reading this report in late October 2026, and each new week adds a point.

¢/lb · Weekly

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Week¢/lbChange
Oct 23, 202650.00

How this number is produced

Weekly, published Friday afternoon for the week just ended. Cash ranges from processor and renderer reports. We show the midpoint of USDA's range, which is how USDA computes its own average.

The chart has one point per published week. History on this site starts with the first report it read, plus the prior week shown in that report.

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