Biodiesel Production Falling in Europe, Argentina and Brazil After years of rapid growth, biodiesel production is in decline in some countries. This is not the case in the United States. Congressional renewal of the biodiesel blenders' tax credit and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to increase the biodiesel blend requirement to 1.28 billion gallons will assure major growth in U.S. biodiesel usage in 2013. What is not clear is how much will be imported.Biodiesel production and exports have plummeted in Argentina in recent months. The country's production of biodiesel fell by 35 percent to only 0.43 MMT during October 2012 – January 2013. The main cause of the decline has been a near stoppage of the country's biodiesel...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
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