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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The long awaited amendments include a 20% limit on credits for renewable diesel produced from soybean, canola and sunflower oils and authorizes CARB to stop accepting new biodiesel and renewable diesel pathways in 2031 if certain ZEV targets are met.
One week to go to the new Trump administration. Ahead of next Monday’s inauguration, Senate committees will be rushing to tee up Donald Trump’s least controversial cabinet selections for quick confirmation.
Christy Seyfert, executive director of government affairs for the American Soybean Association, has been selected as the new president and CEO of the Farm Credit Council, succeeding Todd Van Hoose, who is retiring.
A wide range of commodity groups demanded Saturday that lawmakers oppose a stopgap spending bill unless it includes economic assistance for farmers. The demands raise the stakes for congressional leaders.
Negotiations over a package of market relief assistance for farmers reached an impasse Saturday after Democratic leaders rejected the latest GOP proposal, and several major farm groups called on lawmakers to oppose a stopgap spending bill if the economic aid is omitted.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on U.S. trade partners is worrisome, the head of the Agricultural Retailers Association told his group’s annual conference in Houston last week.
In this opinion piece, Kailee Tkacz Buller, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA), highlights the uncertainty facing the biofuels sector as it awaits 45Z guidance amid increased foreign feedstock imports and lack of strong RVOs.
Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, an organization closely allied with President-elect Donald Trump, has been selected to serve as agriculture secretary.
China is ending an export tax rebate for used cooking oil, a common feedstock for renewable diesel, in a move analysts say could spur higher prices and prompt U.S. biofuel producers to explore other oil sources.
Soybean growers are criticizing what they call “unwarranted restrictions” on the use of a newly approved glufosinate product to protect endangered species.
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