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Oilseed Highlights: Malaysian Biodiesel; Soymeal and DDGS; Argentine Soy Crushers; Pakistan and Cargill

Malaysia to Double Use of Palm-Based Biodiesel The glut and low prices of palm oil have caused the government of Malaysia to double the blending requirement for biodiesel with diesel from the current 10 percent to 20 percent by 2020, according to Minister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok. Oil World estimates Malaysia used 1.14 MMT of palm oil to produce biodiesel in CY 2018, and it is not clear if the country has enough capacity to double output in one year. Raising palm oil usage to 2.8 MMT would help reduce surplus stocks, but it would not do much to decrease the more than 14 MMT of global palm oil stocks that existed at the end of last year. This will particularly be the case if Europe implements proposals to end the use of biodiesel m...

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From WPI Consulting

Communicating importance of value-added products

Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.

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