10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tom Vilsack

Helloooo, Qualifications?

What's up with US News? Has yet another media outlet fallen into Obamaworship? Why can't you give us the QUALIFICATIONS, if any, that Obama's people have for their various offices? These cutesy little "10 things" articles are putting me into a coma! What does Vilsack know about agriculture? Sounds to me like just another lawyer turned professional politician!

Where are the cuts in AG going to be?

I just wonder what Vilsack thinks of the AG programs being cut? Since Obama's announcement of the cuts for our nation's AG, I haven't heard anymore about it. Where are the cuts going to be exactly?

I hope we'll continue to supply our farmers their pay, supply our country with ample amounts of food in our grocery stores, will continue to supply our nation's public schools with USDA food for our children, supply USDA food for our nation's state food banks and food pantries, supply enough for non-profit organizations to continue to purchase bulk grains for 3rd world countries in need, continue to supply our nation, emergency food supplies, continue to supply our poor with commodity foods, and have enough food for trade to foreign countries.

I'd like to find out, where the AG cuts will be because its a scary thought of not having enough food in our stores and our nation's poor doing without, even moreso.

Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation

Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation

Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program.

Field-to-Pump

The legislature found that the proper development of an advanced biofuel industry in Louisiana requires implementation of the following comprehensive “field-to-pump” strategy developed by Renergie, Inc.:

(1) Feedstock other than corn;

(2) Decentralized network of small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities;

(3) Variable blending pumps in lieu of splash blending; and

(4) Hydrous ethanol.

Please feel free to visit Renergie’s weblog (www.renergie.wordpress.com) for more information.