Biofuel producers use record levels of vegetable oils in October; capacity holds steady: EIA
US biodiesel and renewable diesel (RD) producers used a record 2.1 billion lb of vegetable oils in October as...
As 2025 begins, organic stakeholders are preparing for changes in the political and funding landscape for organic agriculture. New leadership will be appointed at the USDA, though that appointment is forthcoming with no advertised timeline.
The Secretary of Agriculture under the previous Trump administration was nominated in mid-January 2017, the last cabinet position to be filled. Secretary Sonny Perdue presided over the USDA as a trade war raged with a key buyer of US farm products: China.
Perdue infamously quipped that big farms get bigger, an...
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