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ICE weekly outlook: Canola facing uphill climb

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 27, 2017

CNS Canada — Bearish headwinds facing the canola market may have gotten slightly worse, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it was considering cuts to biofuel requirements in U.S. fuel. The EPA said Tuesday it was looking for feedback on proposed reductions to the renewable fuel obligations in the 2018 and 2019 Renewable Fuel

Crops

Several U.S. scientists to skip Monsanto’s dicamba summit

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek September 26, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto invited dozens of weed scientists to a summit this week to win backing for a controversial herbicide but many have declined, threatening the company’s efforts to convince regulators the product is safe to use. Monsanto faces a barrage of lawsuits over its dicamba herbicide and risks of tighter restrictions on

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

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U.S. EPA aims to allow dicamba use, with safeguards

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek September 19, 2017

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is aiming to allow farmers to spray the controversial herbicide dicamba next year, but with additional rules for its use, an official with the agency said on Tuesday. Reuben Baris, acting chief of the herbicide branch of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, said the agency

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Monsanto presses against Arkansas’ dicamba limits

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek September 7, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto Co. pushed Arkansas authorities on Thursday to reject a proposed April 15 cutoff date next year for sprayings of the agricultural herbicide dicamba, which has been linked to crop damage across the U.S. farm belt. The company further said that Arkansas’ plant board should allow farmers in the state to

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U.S. farmers confused by Monsanto’s Xtendimax instructions

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Tom Polansek August 21, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — With Monsanto’s latest flagship weed killer, dicamba, banned in Arkansas and under review by U.S. regulators over concerns it can drift in the wind, farmers and weed scientists are also complaining that confusing directions on the label make the product hard to use safely. Dicamba, sold under different brand names by

Court decision may boost biofuels, hit refiners

By Emily Flitter, GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw July 28, 2017

New York / Reuters – The U.S. government may have to require more biofuels to be blended into the country’s fuel supply after a court ruled on Friday that the mandates must be reconsidered, a decision that boosted renewable fuel credits to seven-month highs on financial markets. The decision sank stock prices of independent refiners

U.S. senators seek ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos

By Emily Flitter, GFM Network News July 25, 2017

New York / Reuters – A group of Democratic senators hopes to ban a pesticide the U.S. government has greenlighted for use, according to a bill unveiled on Tuesday in a challenge to Republican President Donald Trump’s push to loosen environmental regulations. The bill, introduced by Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, would outlaw chlorpyrifos,

Crops

U.S. proposes cutting biofuels requirements due to ‘market realities’

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw July 6, 2017

New York | Reuters — The U.S. government on Wednesday proposed reducing the volumes of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel in 2018, in a move that could mark the first step towards a broader overhaul to the controversial energy policy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal marked a slight decline

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Monsanto ghostwrote Roundup studies, plaintiffs in U.S. suit say

By Brendan Pierson, GFM Network News March 15, 2017

Reuters — Employees of Monsanto ghostwrote scientific reports that U.S. regulators relied on to determine that a chemical in its Roundup herbicide does not cause cancer, farmers and others suing the company claimed in court filings. The documents, made public Tuesday, are part of a mass litigation in federal court in San Francisco claiming Monsanto

RFA CEO Bob Dinneen, shown here last March in New Orleans, has said the group is optimistic for biofuel’s prospects under a Trump administration. (EthanolRFA.org)

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U.S. ethanol sector pumped on Trump

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus February 22, 2017

San Diego | CNS Canada — “Building partnerships and growing markets” was the theme of the National Ethanol Conference in San Diego — a theme members of the U.S. Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) believe aligns well with an increased focus on national security and protectionist policies under new President Donald Trump. Speaking Tuesday, the head

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National survey of farmer and rancher mental health launches

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise as dollar hits four-year low

U.S. livestock: Cattle retreat, hogs rise

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ICE weekly outlook: Canola facing uphill climb

Several U.S. scientists to skip Monsanto’s dicamba summit

U.S. EPA aims to allow dicamba use, with safeguards

Monsanto presses against Arkansas’ dicamba limits

U.S. farmers confused by Monsanto’s Xtendimax instructions

Court decision may boost biofuels, hit refiners

U.S. senators seek ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos

U.S. proposes cutting biofuels requirements due to ‘market realities’

Monsanto ghostwrote Roundup studies, plaintiffs in U.S. suit say

U.S. ethanol sector pumped on Trump

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