A draft proposal submitted to the EU Commission recommends a 50 percent reduction in the use of biofuels in the transportation sector after 2020. This is based on one particular argument and specifically recommends that the maximum target for liquid biofuels decline from 7 percent in 2021 to 3.8 percent in 2030. Ukrainian Rapeseed Crop Forecast for 2017 The Ukrainian consulting firm UkrAgroConsult is predicting the country’s rapeseed production will rise to 1.4-1.7 MMT in 2017 versus 1.2 MMT this year. Most of the crop is usually exported to other European countries. The firm said the plantings may increase to 844,000 hectares because of favorable conditions after being reduced to only about 450,000 hectares by poor weather in 2016. It al...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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