Saudi Arabia

Tuesday Saudi Arabia reopened it’s market to U.S. beef giving producers and exports access to Saudi consumers after four years of being shut out of this market. They have been closed to US beef shipments since 2012 when an “atypical” case of mad cow diseases was detected according to the USDA...

A coalition last week filed a petition in a U.S appeals court to review the Renewable Fuel Standard. The groups are asking the courts to review the EPA’s RFS volumes for 2014, 2015 and 2016, announced last year after the EPA proposed significant drops in the volumes...

A European Parliament committee has voted to block a proposal that would allow each of the 28 EU countries to decide on their own whether to allow the import or use of biotech products. DTN reports that despite the aggressive challenges facing biotech crop production in Europe, several major business groups in Europe and abroad saw the food proposal as a threat to Europe's unified market... Read M