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Some UK Beet Farmers Are Worried Post-Brexit Policies Will Put Them Out of Business

Farming Online | 23^rd August 2021

UK beet farmers have been facing huge losses due to bad weather conditions and pests. They feel the new Brexit policies to make deals with big sugar producers, such as Australia, will worsen this situation due to increased market competition.

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Michigan Sugar Company Unveils $65 Million Construction Plan

Agweek | 24^th August 2021

Michigan Sugar Company announced its plan to construct a new ‘desugarization’ plant at its Bay City factory. The project will cost $65 million and allow the company to produce 80 million additional pounds of pure sugar annually from molasses that act as a by-product of the process where sugar is extracted from sugar beet.

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Brazil’s Sugar Output Down 7%, Cane Crop Seen at 530 MMT

Nasdaq | 24^th August 2021

CS Brazil produced about 2.99m tonnes of sugar in the first half of August. This is 7.48% less than last year. The primary factors that have hugely contributed to this drop are drought and frost.

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Brazil’s Logum Makes 1st Ethanol Export to US Using Pipeline to Port

Nasdaq | 25^th August 2021

Logum Logistica, a Brazilian transportation company, carried out its first ethanol export deal to California using pipelines to move the biofuel from the producing region to the port. The company said it moved 40 million litres of ethanol from a terminal in Ribeirao Preto to the Ilha D’Agua port in Rio de Janeiro using a combination of short truck trips and its pipeline system for a total rout of 745 km (462.92 miles). It also added that using pipeline prevented the use of more than 700 trucks, estimating the operation avoided around 2,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

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Minnesota Lawmakers Look to Low-Carbon Fuel Standards as a Way to Address Transportation Emissions

Minnpost | 24^th August 2021

Minnesota lawmakers are planning on slashing carbon emissions from the transportation sector as it’s the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state. This follows the new legislation meant to gradually make transportation fuels cleaner, to help the state meet goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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USGC Helps South Korea and Japan Understand the Benefits of Ethanol

Ethanol Producer Magazine | 23^rd August 2021

Policymakers in South Korea and Japan are considering new emission reduction initiatives to help achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Haksoo Kim, USGC director in South Korea, has reached out to stakeholders to offer information on Ethanol’s contributions to these goals. The U.S. Grains Council has stepped up to demonstrate Ethanol’s benefits to the two countries.

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Belarus Suspends Grain Exports After Poor Harvest

Nasdaq | 26^th August 2021

Belarus has completed the 2021 harvest, threshing 6.2m tonnes of grain, which is 1m tonnes less compared to 2020. The Government has therefore imposed a six-month grain export ban on wheat, rye, corn, and other types of grain and cereals.

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Central Asian Countries to Raise Demand for Russian Grain This Season

APK Inform | 25^th August 2021

Vladimir Petrichenko, General Director of ProZerno, says the demand for Russian grain will be higher this season from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan says the country should produce about 15.3m tonnes of grains. This is around 5m tonnes lesser than the last year, hence the need to import.

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Romania Set to Increase Wheat Exports as Harvest Reaches 14-Year High

Intellinews | 23^rd August 2021

Drought destroyed around 40% of Romania’s harvest last year, dragging it down to just 6.4m tonnes. This year, the average yield per hectare has gone up to 5.35 tonnes. Romania typically consumes between 2.5 and 3m tonnes per year (tpy) of wheat, which would free up around 7m tonnes for export.

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Ukraine Has Exported More Than 6 MMT Grain So Far This Season

APK Inform | 23^rd August 2021

The press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported that Ukraine has exported 6.177m tonnes of grains and pulses since the beginning of 2021/22 MY and as of August 20. Particularly, Ukraine exported 2.931m tonnes of wheat (-476 thsd tonnes y-o-y), 2.07m tonnes of barley (+372 thsd tonnes), 5.9k tonnes of rye (+5.6 thsd tonnes), and 1.153m tonnes of corn (+645 thsd tonnes).

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$4.2M in Grants Awarded to Improve Polypropylene Curbside Recycling

Waste360 | 25^th August 2021

The Recycling Partnership announced a third round of grant funding via its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, distributing an additional $1.8 million in catalytic grants to help advance Polypropylene recycling and reduce plastic waste in the US. These grants will positively impact nearly 15 million Americans through grants to 13 facilities totalling $4.2 million to date.

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Brewer Commences Plastic Recycling to Check Pollution

The Guardian | 25^th August

Nigerian Breweries Plc recently launched a plastic recycling project tagged “NB Recycles” among employees as well as its host communities to help combat plastic pollution. The company has set up various collection points in all its nine brewery locations across the country, as well as the respective host communities. This is to encourage the public to embrace the habit of recycling by returning all plastic bottles, aluminium cans, paper, cartons, nylon, and glass in exchange for money.

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Coca-Cola Serves Free Lime Rides to Encourage Recycling Plastic Bottles

Marketing Dive | 25^th August 2021

Coca-Cola will be partnering with mobility company Lime to offer a free, 10-minute ride on a Lime bicycle or electric scooter for consumers who purchase a Coca-Cola Sip Size bottle and make a pledge online to recycle it. This is to encourage consumers to recycle its new bottles made from 100% recycled plastic.

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Tesco Adds Soft Plastic Collection Points to All Large UK Stores

Packaging Gateway | 24^th August 2021

Tesco installed soft plastic collection points at all its large stores in the UK as part of its efforts to reduce plastic waste. The supermarket chain expects to collect more than 1,000t of soft plastic a year. Tesco will use as much of the material as possible for new products and packaging to be sold in its stores.

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Wave of Robots Hit America’s Dairyland

Spectrum News 1 | 23^rd August 2021

Many farmers are enjoying the new robots that have now flooded the dairy industry. Farmers say that the robots are special because they do more than milk. They measure several things that tell farmers the quality of the milk and the cow’s health. They also measure the milk’s somatic cell count, protein, and fat, among other things.

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Rising Animal Feed Prices Give Irish Farmers an Advantage

Irish Examiner | 23^rd August 2021

Global feed prices have constantly been increasing due to tight supply in major grain-producing countries and increasing demand for feed. This has been an advantage for Irish farmers as their competitive grass-based system will be in high demand.

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