All Vegetable Oils continue to edge higher — 

All Vegetable Oils continue to edge higher, even though some suicidal offers may lead one to think otherwise.

Both Soya & Rape  are now at recent historic highs although rape has come off a bit recently on profit taking, please see attached graphs. We are talking ti read more

Brief Market Resume 7 — 

We ended 2011 with a really uninteresting & flat market. We start 2012 with a bang, with Soya trading at its highest levels for over a month based on dry weather conditions in South America affecting yields.

Rapeseed(Canola) have also posted current, recent historic highs with high dema read more

Castor Oil — 

I receive many letters and e-mails from people eager to learn more about some of our more unfamiliar products. Recently, a number of customers have made enquiries as to what Castor Oil can be used for and whether it is a food oil. Let me explain.............

Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained fr read more

Brief Market resume on very uninteresting market — 

Good Afternoon

Although we see Light Sweet Crude pushing up towards the $100 per barrel mark again, well above the mid $70s of October, at this time of the year this will only serve to steady & possibly slightly increase RAPESEED Oil prices in the near/medium te read more

Market resume 5 — 

Good Afternoon

Market Resume 4 — 

Good afternoon

The market has really no direction at all at the moment, as the world eyes situation in Greece, even so levels on Liquid Vegetable Oils are slowly moving upwards. Planting problems in North America due to their exceptionally wet weather which is keeping Rape rather bullish as are read more

Market — 

Well while I have been away I was expecting the market in both Soya & Rape to give a little, but a really strong energy market has protected levels, in fact in the past week prices especially of Rape have risen quite sharply. last week severe blizzards in Canada negating rumours of record crops, while in read more

Brief Market report — 

Liquid Vegetable Oil markets have been under severe pressure over the past week, with less interest from China and an assortment of more bearish indicators, Impending positive South American harvests & higher stocks in the US than expected have brought values down to late December levels.

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Market Resume 3 — 

Good Afternoon

As I am sure you are fully aware the Vegetable Oils market has been a nightmare of late to call.There have been so many bullish reports, regarding weather, crop failures, poor yields speculators running riot and of couse the main reason for prices remaining so high, ie demand o read more

Veg Oils Resume — 

Good Afternoon
Well this market is just too difficult to call, I have attached the graphs from the P/L I think just looking at these & the comments below them, will explain what is going on, as well as I can?

In the UK market we have tightness of supply, coupled with rumours of trade tarrifs read more

Mustard Oil — 

Of all the KTC products in our range (and that's a lot!), the one product which attracts most attention is Mustard Oil. Pure Mustard Oil has about 60% monounsaturated fatty acids of which 42% erucic acid and 12% oleic acid, it has 21% polyunsaturates of which 6% is the omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid a read more

Description of Vegetable Oils — 

Pure vegetable oils are exactly that; single ingredient products.

In the UK, rapeseed and soyabean oil, often sold as "vegetable oil" or "cooking oil", have an anti-foaming agent added. This is for reasons of safety as these oils are predominantly used for deep frying applicatio read more

Brief Market Information — 

30-11-10

Quite honestly I was hoping to be able to give you some more bearish news on a Vegetable Oil market which the majority of us thought was a bit overdone, sadly it seems that although we have record crops in most growing areas, apart from Sunflower which is a disaster.

I was read more

Market Resume 2 — 

Market Resume — 

14-09-10

We are still seeing liquid oil prices moving forward, the main forces being Sweet crude which has jumped up $5 a barrel while I have been away and futures suggest further gains before year end, Poor crop results from ex Eastern Block, mainly Ukraine, where bad weather has forced Sunflowe read more

Welcome! — 

Good Evening

Higher Sterling levels vs Dollar (but higher Sweet Crude levels too) — 

We see higher Sterling levels vs Dollar but higher Sweet Crude levels too. One basically canceling the other out in terms of effect on Veg Oil via Bio-Diesel.

Liquid Oils jumped up dramatically this week, Rapeseed to 22 month highs most of the read more