Early publication of US agricultural products price assessments

Fastmarkets will publish price assessments for US animal fats and oils, animal proteins, biomass-based diesel, hide and leather, grain and feed ingredients, organic/non-GMO and vegetable oils at 12:00pm Central time on Tuesday December 31 due to the early closure of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) ahead of the New Year holiday.

Normal service will resume on January 2.

The affected prices are part of the following Fastmarkets packages: Agricultural; Agricultural and Grains; Animal Proteins; Industrial Agricultural; and Oils, Fats and Biofuels.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the publication of these assessments, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these assessments, please contact Chloe Krimmel by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Chloe Krimmel, re: US agricultural products price assessments.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to: https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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