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Secretary's Column: New Progress Toward a Thriving Biobased Economy

July 12, 2013 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Across the United States, the potential to use homegrown crops in new ways holds tremendous promise to revitalize the rural economy. Innovators across the country – from small businesses to global companies – are creating amazing new biobased products that we use every day. Everything from cleaning...

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Secretary's Column: Furthering the Biobased Economy

August 03, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

As drought continues across America, President Obama and I continue doing all we can to help farmers and ranchers. Last week, at the President’s direction, I convened a meeting of the White House Rural Council to ensure we’re doing all we can – and we’ll meet again to discuss drought in the coming...

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Secretary's Column: Creating Jobs by Strengthening the Bio-Based Economy

June 22, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

At USDA, we’re working every day to create jobs and support the American agriculture sector. One important piece of this effort is our support for a bio-based economy that will help increase business opportunities for farmers and ranchers, and create jobs across our nation. Today, there are more...

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Developing a Measurement for Biobased Products

October 27, 2011 Marvin Duncan, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses

A new white paper titled Developing of a Purchasing Manager’s Index for Biobased Products was written by Iowa State University through a cooperative agreement with USDA’s Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. The authors explore the development of a measurement for biobased products, which are...

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Growing Jobs in Rural America

July 14, 2011 Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan

In President Obama’s July 11 press conference, he asked us all to look at the steps we can take short term in order to put folks back to work. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), we have been promoting the domestic biobased industry because we know green jobs represent a growth investment...

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USDA Biobased Product Label Launches Today

January 20, 2011 Kate Lewis, Deputy Program Manager, BioPreferred

In today’s market, consumers have high expectations for the products they purchase. Beyond performance and pricing, consumers like the opportunity to make educated purchasing decisions for their families, and increasingly, decisions that that have an impact. USDA’s new biobased product label will...

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