From a total of 1.4bn ha of land used to grow crops globally in 2021, only around 8% of the area was used to supply feedstock for biofuels production, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported.

In its first estimate of the global rapeseed planted area for the 2023/24 marketing season the International Grains Council (IGC) forecasts an area of 40.2M ha, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported.

Freight and charter costs could fall if port congestion eases, World Grain reported a trade source as saying.

Chinese soyabean imports from Brazil dropped for the second consecutive year, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs, reported by AgriCensus.

The Indian government has discontinued its tariff rate quota on soyabean oil and extended its lower duty policy for refined palm oil imports, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported.

New research by US government scientists has found that people exposed to the weedkiller chemical glyphosate have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases, The Guardian reported.

A proposal by the Ukraine government to include metals in the list of goods allowed through the Black Sea Grain export corridor has received a lukewarm response from the grain sector, AgriCensus reported.

The priority given to large tonnage vessels exporting agricultural products from the ports of Odessa using the Ukraine grain corridor when passing through the Bosphorus Strait has been extended, APK-Inform reported the Ukraine Ministry of Agrarian Policy as saying.

Sunflower oil exports from Bulgaria reached a new record in the 2021/22 season, increasing by 39% compared to the previous marketing year, UkrAgroConsult reported.

Global food and agribusiness company Olam Group has announced plans to list its majority-owned agribusiness subsidiary Olam Agri Holdings on the Singapore Exchange in the first half of this year.

A newly approved European Union (EU) regulation will allow food producers to introduce the partially defatted powder of Acheta Domesticus , commonly known as the house cricket, to a range of products, Olive Oil Times reported.

Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste has completed its acquisition of Crimson Renewable Energy’s used cooking oil (UCO) collection and aggregation business in the USA.

The assets of Sergiy Groza and Voloymyr Naumenko, owners of GNT Group and Olimpex Coupe International, a grain terminal in Ukraine’s Port of Odessa, have been frozen following an order issued by the High Court of England, World Grain reported.