EU STILL DEVELOPING ITS OILSEED PRODUCTION POTENTIAL

BY KEITH NUTHALL PREDICTING oil seed production for a given year is always an imprecise science. If accurate projections could be made year-after-year, bio-based oil and fats specialists would all be commodity market millionaires. And they are not. However, as with betting on racehorses, the more information that is available, the better opportunity there is for getting something right, and with oil seed production - the more analysts know about market conditions, weather forecasts and regulation, the better. As we move into 2010, European Union (EU) farmers' ...


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