Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to announce Wednesday that North Carolina and New York each will receive about $4 million for farmers growing crops used to produce energy. The expansion is part of a federal push to produce more non-food energy crops, used to make liquid biofuels or electricity from renewable sources.
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