This article explores the macro trends shaping the animal feed and pet food industry, the specific risks threatening your supply chain, and why accessing reliable market intelligence is the single most important factor in building long-term resilience.

Prices for European biofuel feedstocks from the Annex IX A and B list, including animal fats, used cooking oil (UCO) and soap stock acid oil (SSAO), showed a wide range of volatility during 2025, according to Fastmarkets’ assessments, with levels fluctuating by $152.50 per tonne (16.5%) on average.

The following prices have been corrected: AG-CH-0082 Hide index, fob US, $/pc was published incorrectly at $13.8875 per piece. This has been corrected to $13.7750 per piece. AG-CH-0034 Hides, butt branded steers, regular-weight, $/piece was published incorrectly at $11.00-18.00 per piece. This has been corrected to $11.50-18.00 per piece. AG-CH-0032 Hides, butt branded steers, light-weight, $/piece was published incorrectly at $12.00-19.50 […]

The start of the new 2026 financial year makes it possible to highlight several key developments in the Russian wheat market during the first half of the 2025/26 marketing year. These include higher production, slower export activity, very stable prices and the continued dominance of three major exporters in terms of market share.

Crude palm oil (CPO) futures rebounded from three days of losses to recover to its highest in three weeks on Friday January 16, spurred by gains across the broader vegoil complex and pre-weekend positioning while further indications of a slowing pace of production also lent support.

The Constanta-Varna-Burgas (CVB) wheat market has entered the 2025-2026 marketing year from a firmer price base than last season, but underlying fundamentals point to a more challenging trading environment. While early summer values reflected a sense of tightness, high regional yields, weak margins and cautious farmer behavior are reshaping market dynamics and export flows, according to sources.

The year of 2025 was one of uncertainty for the US vegetable oil market, with unresolved federal biofuel and tax policies sparking major shifts in supply and demand.

Since late December 2025 and into January 2026, Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s vegetable oil sector through a concentrated series of systematic attacks aimed at disrupting the segment as an integrated system, which, along with other factors, has led to increases in delivered vegoil prices to their highest levels in the last few years. In particular, the sunoil FOB six ports price has been driven to its highest level since August 2022, Fastmarkets analyses showed.

In this month's featured insight, find out more from Fastmarkets' senior analyst Eduardo Gonzalez about how non-traditional destinations like South Korea and Vietnam fuel a structural shift in US export demands.

Europe's first year under the 2% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate is drawing to a close with a market defined by strong structural demand, restricted supplies and prices that tightened through most of the autumn before easing in early December.