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Prince Charles (now King Charles III) visits Shane Fitzgerald’s Kil Mige Mogue farm near Waterford in southeast Ireland on March 24, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Noble/Pool)

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Some projects may be handed to other family members

By GFM Network News September 9, 2022

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — As Britain’s King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmental campaigners will be watching closely to see if he continues to advocate for climate action and is able to help drive change as monarch. In his first speech to the nation

CBOT July 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 50-day moving average (dark green line) and MGEX and K.C. July 2022 wheats (yellow and orange lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn down on Ukrainian export optimism

Soybeans firm on biofuel talk

By Christopher Walljasper, GFM Network News June 1, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat sank on Wednesday for a second straight session to the lowest in nearly two months, as the market gauged diplomatic talks to unblock Ukrainian ports, while U.S. rainfall across the plains added pressure to prices. Corn followed, dropping to a nine-week low, as U.S. farmers caught up on planting

Op/Ed

Comment: Food for non-food purposes

By Deepak Ray June 1, 2022

FOOD SECURITY A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed the hungry

Competition for the world’s important crops — like biofuels, processing ingredients, livestock, meal hydrogenated oils and starches — is sending more of them toward uses other than directly feeding people. A recently published study, of which I was a co-author, found that in 2030, only 29 per cent of the global harvests of 10 major

In 1981, before anyone knew how to spell ethanol, U.S. wheat acres hit a record-high 88 million.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: The coming war for U.S. crop acres

Ethanol might be a sacred cow for now, but expect a renewed food-versus-fuel fight

By Alan Guebert April 6, 2022

Farmers are long familiar with acre wars. This late-winter scrum is a showdown over how many acres of which crop farmers will plant. Most years these fights are decided by a variable — and oftentimes volatile — combination of three elements: what market prices are calling for, how government farm programs could affect prices, and

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Biofuels are a fake climate change solution

There are too many costs of all types to make biofuels a solution to our problems

By Kenneth Sigurdson March 15, 2022

Biofuels in Canada cannot be produced without a subsidy or a government order called a mandate. The Canadian and various provincial governments are again increasing biofuel mandates as a simple solution to the serious climate change crisis we face. But are biofuels the solution politicians claim? Biofuels sound good and with mandates they cost government

News

Brazil’s Petrobras to start testing renewable diesel

The edible oil-based products are the next generation of diesel

By Marta Nogueira January 12, 2022

Reuters – Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras will start testing new renewable diesel based on co-processed edible oils with customers in January, while awaiting regulatory approval to sell it commercially, the company’s refining director told Reuters. The tests are expected to take about six months and will be backed by a fuel distributor and a

Crops, Markets

U.S. EPA proposes biofuel mandate cuts

Proposal seen as boost to pandemic-hit refiners

By GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw, Stephanie Kelly December 7, 2021

New York | Reuters — The Biden administration proposed on Tuesday a reduction in the amount of biofuels that U.S. oil refiners were required to blend into their fuel mix since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The long-awaited decision offers some relief to the U.S. refining industry after the health crisis slammed domestic demand

Geopolitical issues will always have an impact on business, especially a global industry like agriculture where China will continue to be the main factor.

Markets, News

Global factors key in changing ag landscape

China, Russia, biofuel trends among factors likely to affect future market risks

By David Derwin December 6, 2021

I recently read The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows by Jonathan Kingsman. It’s like an updated version of the 1979 classic Dan Morgan book The Merchants of Grain. The book follows a series of interviews and discussions with senior executives from many well-known grain companies like ADM, Bunge and Glencore but also

A decal on a Gulfstream 650ER business jet at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) exhibition in Las Vegas on Oct. 21, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/David Becker)

Crops

U.S. EPA to propose expanding credit eligibility under biofuel program

By GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw, Stephanie Kelly December 4, 2021

New York | Reuters — The Biden administration is expected to propose expanding the kinds of renewable fuel production processes that are eligible to receive credits under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard program, three sources familiar with the matter said. The move could help increase production of advanced biofuels, which include lower-carbon products such as

In 2020, U.S. gas sales were 119 billion gallons, down 21 billion gallons compared to 2017.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Ethanol’s future is running out of gas

As electric vehicles take off, biofuels are set to sputter

By Alan Guebert September 15, 2021

The key ingredients for a looming crack-up in ethanol — the fast rise of electric vehicles, lukewarm politics, and more evidence of catastrophic climate change — are in place and few in ag policy circles are prepared to face that reality. In fact, none of those woes are new; they’ve been building for years. For

Daily Network News

ADM cuts 2025 profit outlook on biofuel and trade uncertainty; shares tumble

U.S. not ready to lift Mexican cattle ban over screwworm, Agriculture Secretary Rollins says

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally, hogs slide

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