Bioproducts: Developing a Federal Strategy for Success
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Bioproducts are nonfeed or food industrial goods composed to a significant degree from biological products, renewable domestic agricultural materials, or forestry materials. Hydraulic fluids, lubricants, biopharmaceuticals, chemicals, and building materials all fall within the product range of bioproducts. There are a wide variety of feedstocks that can be used to make bioproducts, including grains, wood and plant oils, agricultural and forestry residues, switchgrass, and hybrid poplar. Agricultural and forestry groups have long been intrigued by the potential of such a nonfood market for their feedstocks. In 1987, a report from the New Farm and Forest Products Task Force to the Secretary of Agriculture recommended diversification of agriculture as a way to improve the economy through the production of biobased products (New Farm and Forest Products Task Force, 1987). The Task Force cited the development of a bioproducts market as a way to address excess capacity, a loss of competitiveness in the international trade arena, and shrinking export markets. In addition, international trade in high value products was seen as increasing (New Farm and Forest Products Task Force, 1987) . More recently, the cost and security risks of imported oil, environmental concerns, as well as advances in biological sciences have renewed policy interest in biobased products. Biobased products often require less energy to produce than the fossil and inorganic products they replace (Committee on Biobased Industrial Products, 2000). Biobased products can improve air and water quality, as well as reduce waste compared to their competitors. Also, biobased products can sequester large amounts of carbon while adding little if any net carbon emissions to the atmosphere. A Systems Approach
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