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Secretary Vilsack Addresses #Biobased2016

Cindy Zimmerman

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, USB director Lewis Bainbridge, USB contractor Karen Edwards

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, USB director Lewis Bainbridge, USB contractor Karen Edwards

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was the keynote speaker at the United Soybean Board 2016 Biobased Stakeholders’ Dialogue at USDA headquarters today.

Vilsack was impressed with the wide range of biobased products on display at the event. “You all are helping to transition our entire economy,” he said.

He called the whole biobased products initiative over the past several years a “holistic effort, but we wouldn’t be able to do it without the great farmers in this country and without the promotion and marketing activities that we see here today.”

During his address, Vilsack talked about some of the advancements that USDA has made recently in getting other government agencies to use biobased products. Secretary Vilsack addresses Biobased Stakeholders' Dialogue

See photos from the event here:
USB Biobased Stakeholders’ Dialogue photo album

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