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As auto makers retool engines to maximize gas mileage while minimizing emissions to meet future Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards, a new study reveals that ethanol provides the higher-octane these high-efficiency engines require while remaining both affordable and environmentally...

Changes in migrant labor laws in the Deep South are crippling the growth of what should be burgeoning fruit and vegetable industries in the Carolinas...

Many building dedications feature a ribbon-cutting; this one included a front-end loader ceremoniously dumping a scoopful of pulverized sugarcane stalks...

Solid risk management “has never been more important” for producers of the nation’s major commodities, given a range of volatility factors, North Carolina State University Extension specialist Nicholas Piggott told producers at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 93rd Annual Meeting...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized the 2012 volume requirements and percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2)...

An international consortium, led by Professor Andrew Paterson of the University of Georgia, has made publicly available the first ‘gold-standard’ genome sequence for cotton...

Kendall Hill is co-owner and president of Tull Hill Farms, one of North Carolina’s longest running, largest and most successful vegetable crop farming operations...

An in-depth analysis of U.S. land use patterns released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows total cropland decreased by 34 million acres from 2002 to 2007, the lowest level since USDA began collecting this data 1945...

Crop prices during 2011 were influenced by a wide range of factors that resulted in extremely large trading ranges...

Reflecting national trends, Kentucky’s farm economy did extremely well in 2011, with farm cash receipts likely to exceed $5 billion for the first time...