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UK biofuels exports threatened by loss of EU assurance

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly UK farmers growing biofuels destined for the EU risk losing access to this key market, as the EU Commission plans to withdraw accreditation for the RED II assurance scheme.

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Automation arrives at MU

Todays Farmer Magazine

Columbia campus becomes first research university to receive new driver-optional tractor Christopher Daubert, dean of the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, unveils the Midwest’s first fully autonomous tractor Sept. The tractor was unveiled at MU earlier this fall.

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Managing ‘Brown Gold:’ the Challenges—and Opportunities—of Spent Substrate

Civil Eats

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. The global market for palm oil, valued at more than $70 billion last year, is experiencing steady growth, driven by its use in products as varied as food, beverages, biofuels, and cosmetics.