A new study looking into the environmental footprint of vegetable oil-based products has been published by the European Union (EU) seed crushers and oil processors’ federation (FEDIOL).

Global agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland (ADM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in India with German chemical company Bayer to develop a crop protection system for soyabean farmers over a three-year period, ADM announced.

Farmers in Ukraine could face new challenges in the winter planting campaign due to high stocks, a shortage of storage and tight and costly logistics leading to current domestic prices being close to the cost of production, AgriCensus reported.

An increase in new renewable diesel plants set to start production in the USA in the next three years will not be enough to offset the loss of petroleum diesel following plant closures since 2019, according to Reuters analysis of federal data.

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has announced it will change its export tax scheme from the US dollar to the Russian rouble, AgriCensus reported.

British retailers have lost out on £18M (US$21.6M) in sales due to the limited availability of cooking oils amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of the country, according to new data reported by The Grocer.

US food giant the Kellogg Company (Kellogg’s) has announced plans to split into three independent companies in a bid to streamline the company and focus on its snack business.

Two US-owned grain terminals in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv have been targeted by Russian forces, Farm Policy News quoted from a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, as part of what Kyiv and Western governments claim is a campaign to block Ukraine’s food export capability.

The government of Indonesia’s Papua province has recommended that district officials revoke the permits of 35 of the 54 oil palm concessions operating there, Mongabay wrote.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised its forecast for global soyabean production for the 2022/23 marketing year, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported.

Farmers in the USA are cutting back on their usage of common weedkillers, looking for substitutes for popular fungicides and changing their planting plans due to ongoing shortages of agricultural chemicals, according to a Reuters report.

Russia is sending grain stolen from farmers in occupied areas of Ukraine to the Middle East via Crimea, according to a 27 June BBC report.

Six of the world’s leading food and agribusiness companies have developed a new method to disclose deforestation-free soya purchases from Brazil’s Cerrado region, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced.