Insights and Stories on Biodiesel

Aug. 21, 2017 at 5:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain prices fell about one per cent on Monday, with benchmark Chicago Board of Trade December corn sinking to a nearly one-year low, on technical selling and easing concerns that dry weather would reduce harvests. Several CBOT wheat futures contracts dropped to lifetime lows, while […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Jul. 6, 2017 at 9:53 am CDT

New York | Reuters — The U.S. government on Wednesday proposed reducing the volumes of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel in 2018, in a move that could mark the first step towards a broader overhaul to the controversial energy policy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]

By Chris Prentice, David Shepardson, Jarrett Renshaw

Apr. 28, 2017 at 2:29 pm CDT

The Ontario government has balanced its budget for the first time in since 2008 — but Thursday’s budget contained little news for agriculture and rural Ontario. Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s budget mostly highlighted agriculture programs that had already been announced, and maintains $100 million in funding for the provincial Risk […]

By John Greig

Mar. 1, 2017 at 5:04 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Rumoured changes to U.S. renewable fuels policy gave corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade a boost this week — but it will likely take confirmed fundamental news for the advances to be sustained. The unconfirmed reports circulating the market on Tuesday were that […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Feb. 28, 2017 at 6:27 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures rose on Tuesday and soyoil futures climbed about four per cent on prospects for changes to the U.S. renewable fuels policy that could boost demand for corn-based ethanol and soy biodiesel, traders said. Both markets pared gains following a White House statement that […]

By Julie Ingwersen