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.

Palm oil prices look set to drop by 30%, The Edge Markets quoted industry expert and Godrej International director Dorab Mistry as saying.

Around 15% of Ukrainian crop storage facilities has been destroyed, damaged or controlled by Russia and its forces since it invaded the country, US non-governmental organisation the Conflict Observatory was quoted as saying in a World Grain report.

The government of Indonesia is unlikely to remove its current Domestic Market Obligation (DMO) policy on palm oil but might increase the current export quota instead, AgriCensus quotes a senior official from the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) as saying.

US speciality chemicals company Stepan has agreed to acquire surfactants producer PerformanX Specialty Chemicals, the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS) reported.

The European Parliament has voted to reject amendments that would have put further restrictions on crop-based biofuels, Ethanol Producer magazine wrote.

US President Joe Biden announced a tentative agreement with railway workers just hours before they were due to start a strike, World Grain reported.

Swiss organic chocolate and food raw materials supplier PRONATEC’s cocoa processing plant in Beringen, Switzerland, has started production, the company announced.

Forecasts for edible oil production and imports in China for 2021/22 have been cut due to higher international prices and lower import margins, according to the monthly update to the country’s Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (Casde) reported by AgriCensus.