# Watching This Week: Yellow Grease, Brazil's Soybean Planting, and Mexican Feeder Cattle

> Gro Intelligence's weekly note covers US yellow grease production, which was 9% lower through June than a year earlier, and yellow grease's use in biodiesel. The page also previews Brazil's soybean planting and Mexican feeder cattle, but the excerpt is mostly navigation.

- Date: 2017-08-28 · published 2017-08-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69545-watching-this-week-yellow-grease-brazil-s-soybean-planting-and-mexican-feeder
- Commodities: [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Lower yellow grease supply reduces a biodiesel feedstock and could support fats and oils prices, while the other topics are not clearly covered in the excerpt.

## Read by commodity

- SBO: bullish ▲
- FCATTLE: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBO | 2025-08-29 | [US soybean oil use in RD at 8-mth high, yellow grease demand at 6-mth high](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23407-us-soybean-oil-use-in-rd-at-8-mth-high-yellow-grease-demand-at-6-mth-high.md) | -1.9% | -6.3% |
| SBO | 2023-07-21 | [Brazil's 2023 soybean crushing set for record highs driven by oil, meal demand](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35113-brazil-s-2023-soybean-crushing-set-for-record-highs-driven-by-oil-meal-demand.md) | +5.4% | -0.5% |
| SBO | 2025-03-24 | [China’s soybean demand, crush projected to grow \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25571-china-s-soybean-demand-crush-projected-to-grow-world-grain.md) | +3.3% | +12.5% |
| SBO | 2025-04-11 | [Brazil's rising biodiesel demand restricts soybean oil exports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25204-brazil-s-rising-biodiesel-demand-restricts-soybean-oil-exports.md) | +2.3% | +4.3% |
| SBO | 2023-11-03 | [Increased Renewable Diesel Production is Attracting Competition for Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15258-increased-renewable-diesel-production-is-attracting-competition-for-soybean-oil.md) | +2.0% | +6.9% |
| FCATTLE | 2024-11-06 | [Weekly Cattle Market Trends: Cash Prices, Feedlot Margins, and Packing Plant Utilization - Beef Web](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27543-weekly-cattle-market-trends-cash-prices-feedlot-margins-and-packing-plant.md) | +0.3% | +4.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2019-02-22 | [National feeder and stocker cattle report \| Capital Press](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60748-national-feeder-and-stocker-cattle-report-capital-press.md) | -0.2% | -0.3% |
| FCATTLE | 2022-08-27 | [National feeder and stocker cattle report \| Capital Press](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40181-national-feeder-and-stocker-cattle-report-capital-press.md) | +0.9% | -2.9% |

## Sources

- gro-intelligence.com: https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/yellow-grease-brazil-soybean-mexico-cattle

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