Rum aficionados will flock to Ybor City during the next few days to sip and judge the world's finest brands. ...more

March 26, 2009

Can local growers cash in on the developing market for biofuels? Would going into farm-to-fuel crops be a sure bet or risky business? ...more

March 24, 2009

President Barack Obama doesn't need a restaurant guide when he visits Hawaii. ...more

March 22, 2009

Strawberries are one of the success stories in Florida's economic crisis, state Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson said. ...more

March 2, 2009

The entertainment is decided low-tech this weekend at the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, with quilters, sugar-cane grinders and mandolin pickers gathering to show their stuff. ...more

February 14, 2009

Verenium Corp. and Tampa-based Lykes Bros. unveiled plans Thursday to build the nation's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Central Florida. ...more

January 16, 2009

Verenium Corp. and Tampa-based Lykes Brothers Inc. unveiled plans this morning to build the nation's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in central Florida. ...more

January 15, 2009

MIAMI (AP) - Nobody loves biomass. When talk turns to global warming and the green movement, it's hardly ever mentioned. Biomass can be garbage (literally) or wood chips or sugar-cane remnants or grass. ...more

January 4, 2009

The Highlands County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday on measures that move forward plans for a security training center that could employ up to 200 people and a cellulosic ethanol plant that will create an estimated 140 jobs in the southern end of the county. ...more

December 24, 2008

The state has agreed to pay the nation's biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion, instead of the $1.75 billion originally proposed, under a revised deal to buy up vast tracts of farmland to restore the Everglades, the company said in statements Tuesday. ...more

November 12, 2008