USDA Rural Development, BioPreferred Program and more: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA’s Bioproducts to Market Efforts

USDA made a big announcement recently on targeting 30% biofuels by 2050, but did you know there are many ways they have been adding value to agricultural products to help the rural economy? Did you know the USDA continues to collect royalties from McDonald’s sale of 65 million lbs/year of apples in the U.S.? How about USDA’s work with Mango Materials on PHA from ag-wastes? Tires from a desert shrub? Patagonia wetsuits made from plant biomaterial? Check out William Orts, Research Leader of Bioproducts at USDA, presentation from ABLC NEXT in San Francisco.