Crushing companies in Ukraine are facing a tight supply of sunflowerseeds due to farmers holding back sales of old crop and low new stocks, compounded by the harvesting campaign’s slow progress due to heavy rainfall, AgriCensus wrote.

Global agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has announced a 97% increase in net income for the first half of the year.

Global agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced the opening of an extrusion facility in Serbia to supply non-genetically modified (GM) textured soya protein.

German renewable ethanol producer Crop Energies has acquired a 50% stake in Dutch bio-chemicals start-up Syclus, the companies announced.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reduced its US soyabean yield and production forecasts in its latest crop protection report, World Grain wrote.

German chemical and biotech giant BASF has formed a partnership with US-based technology start-up RiKarbon to produce emollients derived from bio-waste, the companies announced.

A partnership has been formed between biofuel platform UCO Network and public blockchain VeChainThor to build infrastructure for the global used cooking oil (UCO) industry, UCO Network announced.

Engineering and processing plant supplier Desmet Ballestra is set to design state-owned Bolivian oil and gas company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB)’s biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil plant (HVO) facility in Bolivia, Biofuels Digest reported.

Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste has launched a study into transitioning its Porvoo site into a renewable and circular site and ending crude oil refining in the middle of the next decade, the company said.

The Chinese government has announced plans to reduce the amount of soyabean meal in feed products as part of a larger plan to boost food security, World Grain reported.

The first global Palm Oil Barometer report has been launched by international civil society organisation Solidaridad and smallholder producer organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin-America, Solidaridad announced on 15 September.

Trade associations in Russia are warning that the country’s planting campaign will be disrupted if farmers are called up for military service, according to an AgriCensus report.

The winter rapeseed planting campaign in Ukraine was completed in the week ending 26 September, AgriCensus reported from official government data.