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Milton Baucom walked away from a steady machine shop job for an Anson County family farm like he’d left years before.

Tim Will has become a farming prophet to dozens of Rutherford County landowners.

Howard County’s Highland, a seven-mile stretch of small farms and open space dotted with handsome homes, is Greater Baltimore’s wealthiest ZIP code, according to Baltimore Business Journal research. Residents of 20777 possess a median household income of $106,128 and reside in homes with a median value of $701,340. Highland residents enjoy rural small-town living with a decidedly upscale and, in one pocket, eco-friendly twist.

Defense contractor Mitre Corp. is planning to lease up to 50,000 square feet in the Aberdeen area over the next three years as it shifts operations from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Agtech Products Inc., a fast-growing city of Pewaukee developer and manufacturer of microbiological-based products for the animal production industry, has been purchased by a Denmark food ingredient manufacturer.

The Milwaukee Department of City Development is pushing the “green” envelope by looking for residential developers to acquire a 5.6-acre site in the Bay View neighborhood for $2 million that is earmarked as a “net zero energy” development.

The Northern Kentucky Ezone is no longer just an incubator for local tech companies.

Data tracking car registrations this year illustrates what auto dealers already know: sales are bleak.

A Nigerian crude oil pipeline was sabotaged in the Niger Delta while 22 Filipinos were arrested after their ship was intercepted for carrying stolen oil.

Vienna (dpa) - The Organization of the Petroleum ExportingCountries (OPEC) on Monday lowered its estimate for global oil demandgrowth in 2009 for the third straight month, citing the downturn ofhighly industrialized economies. In its latest monthly o