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The European Parliament rejected a proposal to classify soyoil as a high ILUC-risk feedstock, preventing a potential phaseout from EU biofuel markets by 2030. Palm oil remains the only major vegetable oil designated as high ILUC-risk in the EU due to concerns over expansion into carbon-rich ecosystems. Unlike palm oil, soybean production is driven by demand for soymeal, with soyoil representing a valuable coproduct rather than the primary factor influencing acreage expansion. Soyoil avoided a regulatory barrier in the EU, but its future growth as a biofuel feedstock will depend more on competitiveness, sustainability certification, and supply-chain traceability than on policy eligibility alone. Any future increase in EU soyo...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
