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Birdseed Tone Continues Mixed

VANCOUVER - May 30/15 - SNS -- Birdseed ingredient markets finished the week's trading unchanged to firmer, with offers from growers and processors keeping pace with the ongoing needs of packagers.

Sunflower seed markets in the United States were helped by biofuel proposals from the U.S. EPA.

The original RFS proposal called for a flat-lining of biomass-based diesel of around 1.28 billion gallons through 2015. The proposed numbers sets biomass-based diesel at 1.63 billion gallons in 2014, 1.7 billion gallons in 2015, 1.8 billion gallons in 2016, and 1.9 billion gallons in 2017, notes the U.S. based National Sunflower Association.

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