In a Q&A session at this year’s Commodity Classic, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the importance of a burgeoning biofuels market. “The question is how do you create a new industry that doesn’t exist?” Secretary Vilsack went on to state that tax credits could create incentives for producers and more opportunities within the market for local producers. “It seems to me like you want a broad array of potential feedstocks to be utilized and available so that the marketplace can overtime decide which are the most efficient and most effective.”