China has approved the safety of gene-edited (GE) wheat for the first time, Reuters reports.

The Malaysian government has proposed giving orangutans as gifts to major palm oil trading partners in a similar policy to China’s panda diplomacy, the BBC reported Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Johari Abdul Ghani as saying.

Global agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has teamed up with renewable fuels company Global Clean Energy Holdings and German chemical firm Bayer to promote camelina cultivation in Latin America.

Brazil’s soyabean output is set to fall following floods which have killed at least 150 people in Rio Grande do Sul state and left a quarter of the state's crop still to be collected, Reuters reported.

Bayer Crop Science Canada and the University of Alberta (U of A) are working in partnership to research the genetic diversity of canola.

US cocoa-free chocolate producer Voyage Foods has raised US$52M in funding, The Star reported from a Bloomberg news report.

A surge in imports of used cooking oil (UCO) and other biofuel feedstocks is having an impact on the US soyabean sector, Farm Progress reported from a Bloomberg report.

Soyabean production in Argentina is expected to increase in 2024/25 due to a larger second crop, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

German chemical giant Bayer has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve different uses for its banned Xtendimax herbicide, designed for dicamba-tolerant soyabeans and cotton, AgriPulse reported on 5 May.

Leading airline company the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has ordered 1,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste.

US biofuel and oilseed groups are becoming increasingly concerned that large volumes of allegedly fraudulent Chinese used cooking oil (UCO) could be coming into the country, Bloomberg reported.

Belgian start-up AmphiStar has secured €6M (US$6.43M) in funding to launch its range of waste-based biosurfactants.

US biofuel groups are challenging the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation and are demanding an annulment of sections that exclude crop-based biofuels from the definition of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Argus Media wrote on 3 May.