{"id":71982,"date":"2020-02-26T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fusda-announces-innovation-agenda-with-eye-on-30-biofuels-for-2050%2F"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T13:30:16","slug":"secretary-perdue-announces-new-innovation-initiative-for-usda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/secretary-perdue-announces-new-innovation-initiative-for-usda\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Perdue Announces New Innovation Initiative for USDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the Agriculture Innovation Agenda, a department-wide initiative to align resources, programs, and research to position American agriculture to better meet future global demands. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will stimulate innovation so that American agriculture can achieve the goal of increasing production by 40 percent while cutting the environmental footprint of U.S. agriculture in half by 2050.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know we have a challenge facing us: to meet future food, fiber, fuel, and feed demands with finite resources. USDA\u2019s Agriculture Innovation Agenda is our opportunity define American agriculture\u2019s role to feed everyone and do right as a key player in the solution to this challenge,\u201d said Secretary Perdue. \u201cThis agenda is a strategic, department-wide effort to better align USDA\u2019s resources, programs, and research to provide farmers with the tools they need to be successful. We are also continually mindful of the need for America\u2019s agriculture industry to be environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable to maintain our position as a leader in the global effort to meet demand. We are committed as ever to the environmental sustainability and continued success, of America\u2019s farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the Agriculture Innovation Agenda, a department-wide initiative to align resources, programs, and research to position American agriculture to better meet future global demands. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will stimulate innovation so that American agriculture can achieve the goal of increasing production by 40 percent [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[6630,14441,5528],"supplier":[8400],"class_list":["post-71982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-agriculture","tag-policy","tag-sustainability","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71982"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=71982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}