----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Webster"
Newsgroups: sci.agriculture
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Rapeseed oil in Spain?


:
: Gordon Couger wrote in message
: om...
: Is rape oil available as a cooking oil in the UK? With so may other
: oils being better cooking oils and oil price being so cheap I would
: think it would have a difficult time to find a place in the market. If
: cost is a concern there is always lard. It is a great cooking oil if
: it didn't go rancid so quickly and all the negative health hype it
: would have a much better market.
:
:
: A lot of northern fish&chip shops always used to boast that they used
: nothing but "the finest beef dripping".

I don't know why tallow is not a commercial product here. The price is the
same as for lard. http://www.urnerbarry.com/pdf_files/ci0414.pdf

The interstinging one is uteri 14.00 higher in the usda report
http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/NW_LS850.TXT
These are hard to understand unless you are in the market and understand the
pricing from looking at other reports that is the change in price and could
be by the pound or hundred. The price does seem volatile with moves as much
as 22 dollars. In other report they are listed with brains which when
available retail are around a dollar a pound or less. They are not good
sellers since BSE came along.

Gordon