The American Soybean Association is urging USDA to move expeditiously to implement the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels included in the 2008 Farm Bill. Kansas soybean producer and ASA board member Bob Henry testified at a Rural Development and Rural Business-Cooperative Service public meting in Washington, D.C. Thursday to outline ASA’s priorities for the program for biodiesel. He says it’s important that the program support current domestic biodiesel production - but says it could also provide the support needed to make U.S. biodiesel more competitive and protect domestic production. ASA would like to see U.S. biodiesel producers receive payments in fiscal year 2009 and wants to ensure those payments are provided on all gallons of domestically produced biodiesel.