Canadian energy company Imperial Oil has begun construction of the Strathcona renewable diesel project.

Global agribusiness giant Bunge raised its full-year 2023 earnings outlook after posting a second quarter profit above estimates due to improved processing margins, Reuters reported.

Indian agricultural commodity exchange the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) is set to revise its trading hours for derivatives, according to a NCDEX circular.

Poland’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Robert Telus has told farmers in the country that grain imports from Ukraine would not be allowed to enter the country after 15 September, AgriCensus wrote.

Spanish energy company Repsol has plans to invest €120M (US$133M) in transforming a unit of its plant in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) with the aim of producing biodiesel by 2025, Servimedia wrote.

Leading Asian agribusiness Wilmar has acquired Cosumar’s 45% stake in vegetable fats business Wilmaco for US$8.7bn.

Researchers at Kao Corporation’s Personal Health Care Products Research Laboratory and Material Science Research Laboratory have developed a surfactant spray that neutralises mosquitoes’ water-repellent capabilities without the use of insecticides, Intelligent Living wrote.

Malaysian publicly-owned government company Sirim Berhad, Japanese packaging producer Fujimori Kogyo Co – known as Zacros – and the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are working together on a project to produce polyhydroxy alkanoates (PHA) from waste vegetable cooking oil.

The EU-27 is likely to harvest less rapeseed due to drought conditions in the region earlier in the year, dropping below Canada to become the second largest global rapeseed producer, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) wrote.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has promised free grain supplies to six African countries following the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), The Guardian reported.

Global agribusiness giant ADM has reported a drop in oilseed profits but strong performances in food oil and biodiesel in its second quarter results.

US agricultural bioscience company Yield10 Bioscience has filed a request for a regulatory status review (RSR) of its camelina varieties containing genes to produce the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) component of omega-3 oil.

German chemical giant the Bayer Group has adjusted its full-year outlook mainly due to a further decline in sales of glyphosate-based products.