Global agribusiness giant Cargill has partnered up with Maersk Tankers and Mitsui & Co to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) within shipping.

The global surface area of olive trees cultivated for commercial purposes has decreased for the first time in 22 years.

Italian oil and gas multinational Eni Spa has launched its 750,000 tonnes Gela biorefinery, which will be able to utilise increasing quantities of used vegetable oil, animal fat, algae and by-products to produce renewable diesel or hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).

Russia is expected to set new records in soyabean and rapeseed production for the 2019/20 marketing year, according to an 11 July Global Agricultural Information Network report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Canada is forecast to see a reduced canola planted area as ending stocks rise in 2019/20 on the expectation of turbulent global oilseed trade, according to a 21 May Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

German appliance manufacturer Miele is updating the washing machines it hosts at 1,300 McDonald’s restaurants across the UK to pull oil from used mops, towels and cleaning cloths to recycle into biofuel for the fast food giant’s delivery fleet.

China has cancelled a major Canadian grain handler’s registration to export canola seeds to China in the latest flare-up of diplomatic and trade tensions between the two countries, CBC News reports.

Kernel Holding SA, Ukraine’s largest producer and exporter of sunflower oil, announced on 20 February that it had acquired a 5.85% interest in ViOil Holding Ltd, which operates two multi-seed oil extraction plants with a crushing capacity of 1.1M tonnes/year.

Edible oils have been identified as one of 12 key business areas which Asian food and agribusiness group Olam International plans to invest US$3.5bn in over the next six years.

The European Commission (EC) has decided that US soyabeans can be used in biofuels in the EU as part of its push to strengthen trade relations with the USA.

A European Commission (EC) report on plant proteins has proposed several strategies to develop production in an economically and environmentally sound way, World Grain reports.

China will maintain its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on imports of US distillers grains (DDGs), a by-product of ethanol production used for animal feed, Reuters reported on 19 June.

Twenty-one people have been indicted by a grand jury in the USA for stealing large quantities of used cooking oil (UCO) in a major grease theft ring.