Today’s quick hits, June 28, 2022

‘Mobile silos’ for Ukraine: Canada will contribute $50 million to prevent Ukrainian grain from going to waste, with most of the money paying for so-called mobile silos for storing grain. (RealAgriculture News)

Bristlecones at evolutionary crossroads: For the first time in recorded history, drought and bark beetles are killing bristlecone pine trees, which live for hundreds of years on wind-swept mountain ridges. (Los Angeles Times)

Industry challenges ‘alternative compliance’: Biofuel trade group Growth Energy asked for federal court review of the EPA decision to offer an “alternative compliance” method to oil refineries after denying 31 requests for exemption from the ethanol mandate. (Growth Energy)

USDA boosts biobased products: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was to announce a new program for the development of biobased materials used in a range of products during a visit to a creamery in eastern Iowa on Tuesday. (FERN’s Ag Insider)