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Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the crop. Meet the leafhopper. The world's No. 3 corn exporting country has slashed millions of tons from its harvest projections for the current crop due to a rare plague of the insect that can carry a stunt disease that damages the cobs and kernels of the plant.

Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews Apr 13, 2021 7:32 AM Brazil last week announced it will lower the percentage of vegetable oil blended into petroleum diesel. Brazil will reduce the blend from 13 percent, or B13, to ten percent, or B10. Brazil’s government claims the change is the result of the high cost of biodiesel, citing the elevated price of domestic soybeans and soybean oil. Michael Cordonnier of Soybean and Corn Advisor Inc. writes, “The industry feels this will throw the biodiesel sector into disarray because they had already made the investments needed to increase the blend percentage to...