UK Hitting Renewable Road Fuel Target
The UK is just over target for the supply of renewable fuel for transport after the first full year of monitoring, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Sustainable Development through Renewable Energy
A recent study has explored the role that renewable energy schemes can play in promoting sustainable development at the local level.

EU Biodiesel Industry Showing Restrained Growth
The European biodiesel industry is consolidating its position at EU and international level despite a lower increase in production growth rates in 2009, according to a report by the European Biodiesel Board.

Oil Crops Outlook - August 2010
In USDA's first assessment of 2010 crop potential, the August Crop Production report forecast a US soybean crop of 3.433 billion bushels, according to the USDA Economic Research Service.

Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade - August 2010
Despite reduced sunseed and rapeseed production in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere, global vegetable oil supplies are expected to continue growing, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

World Agricultural Production - August 2010
The USDA forecasts Russia wheat production for 2010/11 at 45.0 million tons, down 8.0 million or 15 per cent from last month and down 16.7 million or 27 per cent from last year, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

US Feed Outlook - August 2010
The 2010 corn crop is forecast to be a new record, according to USDA Economic Research Service.

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates - August 2010
Global wheat supplies for 2010/11 are reduced sharply with world production lowered 15.3 million tons, according to the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates for August 2010.

Grains: World Markets and Trade - August 2010
Expectations that prices in the next few months will hit the record levels of 2007/08 levels are not substantiated by the reality of the global supply situation, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Offshore Wind Heads for Record Year
A total of 118 new offshore wind turbines were fully connected to the grid in the first half of 2010 according to new statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

Stabilisation of Grain Market by Use of Grain for Bioethanol
It is feasibile that the grain market and grain prices can be stabilised by the variation of the use of grain in the EU 27's production of bioethanol, according to a report by J.F.M. Helming, A. Pronk and G. Woltjer from LEI, part of Wageningen UR in...

Pakistan Oilseeds and Products Annual Report 2010
Pakistan’s vegetable oil imports are forecast at a record 2.45 million metric tons (MMT) in Marketing Year (MY) 2010/11, 10 per cent higher than the 2009/10 imports estimated at 2.23 million metric tons, according to teh USDA Foreign Agricultural Service....

Grain Market Report - July 2010
Heightened market concerns about the outcome of this year’s harvests in some key northern hemisphere exporters, especially wheat and barley in the Black Sea region, propelled prices of grains and oilseeds upwards in July, according to the International...

Impact of Biodiesel and Ethanol Production on Land Use
The expansion in the biofuel sector in the EU will have an impact on the world market and in particular on indirect land use, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor Chris Harris.

Jatropha: A Smallholder Bioenergy Crop
Declining reserves of fossil fuels plus recognition that growing carbon dioxide emissions are driving climate change have focused world attention on the need to reduce fossil fuel dependence, according to a report from the Food and Agricultural Organisation...