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03.25.09
Argentine Farmers Continue Protests
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03.25.09
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03.25.09
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03.25.09
EU Palm Oil Imports Increasing
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03.24.09
El Salvador To Begin Biofuel Project
A biodiesel plant has arrived in El Salvador from Colombia to be used in a pilot...
03.23.09
Argentine Farmers Block Roads In Export Tax Protest
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03.20.09
India Removes Soy Oil Import Tax
The Indian government is removing the duty on soy oil to narrow its premium over...
03.16.09
Argentina Soybean Production Down On the Year
Argentina's 2007-08 soybean production will total 40 - 42 million mt, a 9% to 12...
03.13.09
Argentine Farmers Protest Export Tax
Friday, Argentine farmers held a meeting in Cordoba to present an agriculture de...
03.12.09
Argentine Farmers Protest Export Prices After Failed Meeting
Argentine farmers yesterday came out from their third meeting with the governmen...
Petrotec Suspends Biodiesel Production
10.23.07
German biodiesel producer Petrotec has temporarily stopping biodiesel production because market conditions do not permit the company to cover production costs.
The company cited the German government's decision to start taxing biodiesel in August 2006 as a prime factor. Germany's renewable fuels trade association estimates that plants in the country are operating at only 40% to 50% of capacity because the tax has removed biodiesel's price advantage over fossil diesel.
Petrotec said it would suspend biodiesel output until the end of 2007, but meet all existing delivery contracts. A further biodiesel tax increase is scheduled in Germany for January 1, 2008.
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