The Argentine government has extended the country’s fourth ‘soya dollar’ scheme until 25 October in a bid to boost foreign exchange reserves and contain the dollar rise ahead of this month’s presidential election, AgriCensus reported.

European energy company Varo Energy has announced plans to invest US$600M in building a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility at the Gunvor Energy Rotterdam site in the Netherlands.

Egyptian state-backed importing agency General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) has reportedly purchased more than 60,000 tonnes of sunflower oil after concluding a tender, trade sources told AgriCensus.

The European Parliament and European Council have reached a provisional agreement on new rules to ban misleading marketing and provide clearer product information, according to a statement on the European Parliament website.

A UK research study has found that hazardous chemicals commonly found in aerosols, such as those produced by cooking and cleaning, can be ‘protected’ in 3D structures formed by surfactants, causing them to last longer in the air.

A project team at the University of Illinois in the USA is researching how to genetically adapt plants to increase their yields by improving their ability to photosynthesise, according to a BBC report.

Germany’s rapeseed oil exports in the 2022/23 marketing year (MY) increased by 19% to just under 1.3M tonnes following a significant decline the previous year, according to a report by Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Plant Proteins (UFOP).

The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has launched a corruption investigation into the country’s palm oil fund agency, which oversees the collection and distribution of export taxes on the commodity, Reuters wrote.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed publicly that a statement in its Biofuels Annual Report alleging that Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste might have received fraudulent used cooking oil (UCO) volumes from China was a mistake, according to a report by Quantum Commodity Intelligence.

European Union (EU) feed manufacturers’ federation (FEFAC) has noted the progress made in “responsible soya usage’ following the recent publication of the European Soy Monitor 2021, World Grain wrote.

Global used cooking oil (UCO) supply is expected to increase from 14bn litres (3.7bn gallons) in 2022 to 18.9bn-37.8bn (5bn-10bn gallons) by 2030, according to a new report by US trade association Clean Fuels Alliance America.

With olive oil production in Syria expected to drop by 50% in the 2023/24 crop year, the government has banned exports in a bid to halt price rises, Olive Oil Times reported.

US renewable fuel company Montana Renewables (MRL) has expanded feedstock used at its Great Falls production facility in Montana to include camelina, PR Newswire reported.