EU Commission Proposes to Scale Back Use of Food Crops for Biofuel The EU Commission has drafted new rules that would substantially scale back the use of food crops for the production of biofuels. The proposal is a result of studies done for the Commission that showed considerably less greenhouse gas emission reductions from biofuels than earlier believed. It also is a result of greater concerns about the use of food crops for biofuel driving up the price of food and feed.Under the draft proposals the amount of biofuels that could be produced from food crops would be capped at 5 percent of fuel consumption in 2020 and beyond. Because biodiesel and ethanol now produced from food and feed crops already account for 4.5 percent of EU fuel co...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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