Welcome

Welcome to the United Soybean Board's web site on biobased products. This site is devoted to current and prospective government users of biobased products.

We hope this is helpful to you in your efforts to familiarize yourself with biobased products. Whether you are establishing an affirmative procurement program for purchasing biobased products, have questions about price, performance, or availability of biobased products, need to know whom to contact for further information, or simply want to learn more, this web site offers you quick and easy reference information on biobased products.

• Updates to the Best Practices Guide
• Winter 2008 Newsletter

• USDA Announces First Biopreferred Biobased Product Showcase
  

USDA will hold its first BioPreferred Biobased Product Showcase and Training in conjunction with the 2008 General Services Administration (GSA) Expo, April 21-24, 2008, in Anaheim, CA. Click here for the USDA press release.

More information on the Showcase can be found here.

To learn how to participate as an exhibiting or non-exhibiting vendor go here.


• Whitman Mission National Historic Site Goes Green
  "Today, Whitman Mission is as biobased as possible".





• Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
  A final rule published in the Federal Register on November 7, 2007 incorporates into the FAR, which contains the uniform policies and procedures for acquisition by all federal agencies, requirements for the purchase of biobased products. The new provisions in the FAR will implement the procurement preference for biobased products established in Section 9002 of the 2002 Farm Bill.
  
• Biobased Products Best Practice Guide
  The recently completed 2nd edition of USB's Biobased Products Best Practices Guide offers a list of the products officially designated as “biobased” by USDA, as well as the law and regulations, relevant Executive Orders, factual information, descriptions of actual practices, and examples of procurement of biobased products by government employees.
  
  
• Summer 2007 Newsletter

• National Parks Set Example
  State and Local Facilities Go Green with Soy-Based Products
• New Research Shows Americans Want to Know More About Biobased Products

• July 26-27, 2007 Biobased Stakeholders' Workshop
  
  
  
  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Assistant Secretary for Administration Boyd Rutherford addresses the 2007 Biobased Stakeholders' Workshop attendees.
  
• Soy Biobased Products Help Government Agencies Achieve Environmental Success:
  2007 Closing the Circle Awards
  
  
  Federal Environmental Executive Ed Pinero (left) presents a White House Closing the Circle Award to Tim Trittschuh of Fort Custer National Cemetery and other Veterans Administration employees.