An attack by Russia on the port of Pivdennyi on 8 November hit a commercial vessel, AgriCensus reported Ukrainian authorities as saying.

Ocean freight rates for shipping grain from the US Gulf and Pacific Northwest dropped in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter and the previous year, according to a report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) reported by World Grain.

Barge rates on the Mississippi river are dropping despite water levels remaining low and ongoing restrictions on barge movements, FreightWaves reported.

Leading Japanese chemical company Sumitomo Chemical has started building an ethanol-to-propylene pilot facility in Japan.

Global agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is building a soyabean processing plant in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Global agribusiness giant Bunge’s agribusiness third quarter earnings were down by 11% compared to the same period in the previous year.

Rapeseed imports to the European Union (EU) in the first quarter of the current crop year were lower than in the same period of the previous year, according to a report by Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP).

Spanish energy company Repsol has licensed Honeywell’s Ecofining technology to produce renewable fuels at its facility in Puertollano.

The Argentine government has extended the soya dollar scheme to all products until 17 November – two days before the run-off upcoming presidential election, AgriCensus reported.

Global agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has acquired a grain and oilseeds facility in the Trilí province of La Pampa, Argentina, World Grain reported.

German chemical giant Bayer has been ordered to pay US$175M to a retired restaurant owner who claimed his cancer was due to the company’s Roundup weedkiller, Reuters reported.

Nextgreen Global Bhd’s wholly-owned Malaysian unit has formed a joint venture with P Teguh Services Sdn Bhd in Malaysia to trade, supply and export biodiesel, used cooking oil (UCO) and related products.

The success of Ukraine’s new Black Sea export corridor has led to a sharp increase in the number of rail wagons heading to ports in the Odessa region, a senior railways official was quoted as saying by Reuters.