In an effort to gauge current and potential labor shortages resulting from enactment of the state’s immigration law, the Alabama Agribusiness Council (AAC) is asking farmers, producers and agribusinesses to complete a Web-based survey by Feb. 13.

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In a year when Georgia's economy struggled to get back on its feet, agriculture gave local communities a much-needed boost....More

Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields....More

Checking tomato variety plots at the University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Sam Hutton stops and fingers leaves, squeezes an occasional fruit and riffles plant canopies. On this day he is particularly interested in plants showing resistance to yellow leaf curl virus, which can destroy 100 percent of the tomato plants in an infested field....More