1. Manages USDA’s BioPreferred program, a mandatory Federal procurement program requiring all US Federal agencies to buy and use biobased products designated by USDA. In 2011 the program launched a voluntary consumer label, “USDA Certified Biobased Product.” Buckhalt has 40+ years of communications and public policy experience. He has worked as a Congressional Press Secretary, executive branch political appointee, public relations executive, communications consultant, lobbyist, radio and television...