The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has lowered its 2024/25 oilseeds production forecast by more than 1M tonnes to 686M tonnes due to a reduced rapeseed outlook in Australia.

Bulgaria became a net importer of rapeseed in the 2023/24 marketing year with growing trade driven by expanding domestic crushing capacities, according to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.

Brazil’s privately owned Grupo Potencial will be investing BRL 200M (US$37M) in building two biofuel pipelines in the south of the country, the company’s vice president Carlos Hammerschmidt was quoted as saying in a Reuters report.

Ultra-processed food is responsible for about 391,000 deaths a year in Europe, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data reported by Olive Oil Times.

British multinational oil and gas company bp has announced it would be scaling back plans to develop new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel projects at existing sites.

The US government is opening the door to Brazilian imports of used cooking oil (UCO) by accepting international certification for the product, Bloomberg reports from a joint statement by the South American country’s ministries of foreign affairs and agriculture.

Global agribusiness COFCO International and agricultural cooperative GROWMARK have agreed to exchange grain assets in the US state of Illinois for an undisclosed sum, World Grain wrote.

Recent floods in southern Brazil and lower yields across several states have reduced the country’s soyabean production expectations to 150M tonnes in the 2023/24 marketing year, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Global oil giant Shell has announced it will be pausing construction of its 820,000 tonnes/year biofuels facility at the company’s chemicals park in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The US state of Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is set to ban medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil in vape pens.

Leading global used cooking oil (UCO) producer China, will run out of waste oil due to demand from Europe and the USA outstripping supply, according to a report by clean transport campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E).

Kinetics Technology (KT) – part of the Maire Tecnimont Group – has been awarded a US$400M project to develop a hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) complex in Hamburg, Germany, for HOLBORN Europa Raffinerie.

Imports of Brazilian tallow into the USA for use in biofuel production surged by 377% in the first four months of this year compared to the previous year, edging out US soyabean farmers, Bloomberg reported.