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Groups launch Ag Bioeconomy Coalition

By Amie Simpson Aug 26, 2022 | 1:57 PM


A new coalition of agricultural groups is working to advance federal policy initiatives that support a circular economy based on products derived from ag commodities.  

Ariel Wiegard, director of governmental affairs with the American Soybean Association, says the Ag Bioeconomy Coalition was launched with the 2023 Farm Bill in mind.

“We feel like now is really the right moment in time to promote the ag bioeconomy to Congress, but also to the public and other stakeholders around the ag community because there is such a strong emphasis right now on climate and sustainability in agriculture and biobased goods really deliver there both through the products themselves, where ag feedstocks like soy, corn, and hemp can displace the use of petrochemical but also in how we grow the feedstocks, which themselves capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” she says.