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Biomass crops show potential to meet growing demands for biobased products, but producers will not plant them without reliable markets, a new Agriculture Department report says. 

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday finalized the first requirements for large corporations to disclose their carbon footprint but scrapped a plan opposed by farm groups to mandate tracking of the greenhouse gas emissions in company supply chains.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack made a series of energy infrastructure announcements Wednesday, including the first under an Inflation Reduction Act effort to stand up renewable energy projects in rural America.

President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union address this week as Congress faces a new Friday deadline to pass half its fiscal 2024 spending measures, including the bills needed to fund USDA, EPA and the Interior Department.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Friday the Biden administration would need several more weeks to finalize its carbon assessment of feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel, but he continued to express confidence that most of the product would ultimately come from agricultural sources.

Lawmakers have until Friday to pass the first of their fiscal 2024 spending bills, including the measure needed to fund USDA, or they’ll have to pass another stopgap spending measure to avert a partial shutdown of the government.  The Biden administration also is scheduled to announce a critical update of the GREET model that’s used to measure the carbon intensity of biofuels.