11/15/16 Feedstuffs
On Monday, Alaska Airlines landed the first commercial flight powered in part by a new renewable fuel made of wood waste salvaged from private lands in Washington, Oregon and Montana.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack greeted the passengers for flight AS-4 arriving from Seattle, Wash., at Washington Reagan National Airport to highlight this breakthrough in bioenergy that supports jobs and rural economies by developing a sustainable bio-products industry in the Pacific Northwest utilizing wood harvest left-overs that would otherwise go to waste.