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Argentina pauses new export sales of soybean meal

By Jane Byrne

Argentina’s drought has been having a major negative impact on the country’s soybean crop, and the weekend saw its agricultural ministry move to suspend soybean oil and meal export registrations.

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Louis Dreyfus steps up its game on deforestation targets

By Jane Byrne

Commodity trader, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), has committed to eliminate deforestation and conversion of native vegetation of high conservation value for agricultural purposes from all its supply chains by December 2025.

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Lift off for US feed sustainability project

By Jane Byrne

The US Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER), along with agribusiness consultants, the Context Network, launched a project this month to develop a sustainability roadmap for the US feed and pet food industries.

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EU compound feed production set to dip in 2021

By Jane Byrne

EU compound feed production has been negatively impacted by the spread of animal diseases but boosted by the continuing global grain market rally this year, according to data from FEFAC.