Global agribusiness giant Cargill has suspended palm oil purchases from Malaysia’s Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (Sime Darby) due to concerns over the use of forced labour, Bloomberg News reported.

The spring sowing campaign in Ukraine has continued to make steady progress with rapeseed sowing ahead of last year’s pace, AgriCensus reported on 21 April from the country’s agriculture ministry’s latest update.

Rail transport of grains in Ukraine increased this month, but still only reached 55% of potential capability, AgriCensus reported from a Kyiv-based online grains meeting.

Leading Australian agribusiness and processing company GrainCorp has partnered with national science agency CSIRO and plant-based food producer v2food for a plant-based protein research project, GrainCorp announced.

Global agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced it is set to expand non-genetically modified (non-GM) soyabean processing capacity at its oilseeds facility in Mainz, Germany.

German chemical and biotech giant BASF and chemical and consumer goods company Henkel have announced a joint commitment to replace fossil carbon feedstock with renewable source for most products, the companies announced.

The Indonesian government is set to introduce a ban on all cooking oil exports and their raw materials, including palm oil, the country’s president was quoted as saying in an AgriCensus report on 22 April.

The United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has announced that its Food Price Index rose by 12.6% in March compared with the previous month.

German chemical giant Bayer reached a settlement to resolve a group of claims that its weedkiller Roundup caused cancer just before a trial was set to start in St Louis, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Global demand for palm and crude oil alternatives combined with concern about Ukraine's oilseed crop production this season have led to a significant increase in demand for Australian-grown high oleic safflower oil, ABC News wrote.

Brazilian fuel distributor Vibra Energia (Vibra) has extended its existing partnership with biofuel producer Brasil Biofuels (BBF) to move into producing and selling palm oil-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), BBF announced.

A new report by the United Nation’s (UN) climate science panel has warned that countries, companies and individuals need to increase efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from agriculture, farming and forestry if these sectors are to play a meaningful role in slowing the pace of climate change, AgriCensus wrote.

Biodiesel prices in Argentina are set to rise 25% this month following an agreement between the National Energy Secretariat and the chambers of the biodiesel industry, Biofuels Digest wrote.