RM32 Million For Palm Oil Smallholders In Johor
MALAYSIA - The Johor State Assembly was told on Friday that the Federal Government had given a RM32 million allocation to the state government to enable its smallholders to replant...

Milo the New Corn for Pigs?
US - Many central US swine producers in recent years switched to a corn-based diet for their stock. That decision may now need to change.

Research Attracts Investors to Latin America
LATIN AMERICA - Latin America is all set to make a splash in the global biofuels market, thanks to its inherent advantages of land availability, technological developments, agricultural...

Biofuels Need Technology Development
EU - Appropriate implementation of the relevant EU directives will increase bioenergy use, but significant technology development is still required if a new generation of biofuels and...

BP and Chinese Academy of Sciences Agreement
CHINA - BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have agreed to establish the Clean Energy Commercialisation Centre (CECC) joint venture in Shanghai, jointly investing some RMB500...

Russian President Sees Brazil's Biofuels Production
BRAZIL - Russian president Dimitri Medvedev met with Brazilian state-controlled oil multinational Petrobras president, Sérgio Gabrielli, in Rio de Janeiro, this week during a state...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

CAP Health Check Will Help Farmers
EU - Political agreement has been reached by EU agriculture ministers on the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Commissioner at International Conference on Biofuels
BRAZIL - Commissioner Piebalgs has been participating in the International Biofuels Conference taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 17 to 21 November. Fifty Ministers including many...

CME: Crude Oil Prices Impact Livestock Production
US - CME's Daily Livestock Report for 18^th November 2008.

Sugarcane Expansion to be Restricted
BRAZIL - New agricultural zoning of Brazil inhibits the cultivation in sensitive ecosystems and areas for food farming. 'Biofuels should not compete with food,' said minister Dilma...

CME: The Cattle: Corn Ratio
US - CME's Daily Livestock Report for 17^th November 2008.

ATSE Calls for a Biofuels Institute
AUSTRALIA - In a major report on Biofuels, released in Melbourne, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) recommends that a national Biofuels Institute...

Another Record-Setting Year for Soy Exports
US - U.S. soybean farmers already have one reason to give thanks this fall - 2008 exports of U.S. soy have set another all-time record. This year over 1.5 billion bushels of soy were...

Conference Yields Millions in Ag Export Transactions
US - US corn and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) contributed to an estimated $73 million in US agricultural export transactions during a conference co-sponsored by the...