NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced that the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) established a new daily electronic volume record of 147,958 contracts on Monday, April 9. NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange , the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced that the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) established a...

There is continued spraying for codling moth in walnuts, fungicides on almonds, and the application of herbicides in most deciduous fruit and nut orchards and vineyards. However, most crops will need additional irrigation because of the lack of rain. Other winter crops are progressing well. Deciduous tree fruit, nuts and grapes: Spraying of fungicides continues in vineyards with increased mildew pressure. Citrus bloom has started Vegetables, melons and berries: The unseasonably warm...

Industry market vitality measures for each state are benchmarked against US averages for the industry, creating easy comparison of state-by-state performance. The metrics in this report cover three year trends in SIC 724 [Agricultural sector], broken out on a state-by-state basis. The report also compares proprietary BizMiner measures in each state and the US, including failure rates, entrepreneurial activity and new branch development rates in the industry. Failure rates, experience-rated...

In India, for example, GM cotton has increased yields by around 150 per cent, trebled small farmers' profits, and reduced pesticide volumes by 80 per cent. Ten years after the first GM crops were planted, evidence is mounting that the technology can increase crop yields with apparently little environmental impact, particularly in developing countries. Anti-GM groups, however, argue that in many developing countries, GM crops are now grown mainly for export by big farmers, not for local...

Monsanto (Ticker: MON) produces seeds for large-acre crops such as corn, cotton and oilseeds (soybeans and canola), as well as for small-acre vegetable crops. The company also offers some of the leading in-the-seed trait technologies aimed at protecting crop yields. Streetwise: Monsanto plants seeds of success. Stocks outperform other investments because businesses retain earnings, which they reinvest in the business to generate still more earnings, while often increasing dividends in the...

In China, vanishing cropland and diminishing water supplies are hampering the country s ability to feed itself, and the increasing use of farmland in the United States to produce biofuels is pushing China to seek more of its staples from South America, where land is still cheap and plentiful. In China, vanishing cropland and diminishing water supplies are hampering the country s ability to feed itself, and the increasing use of farmland in the United States to produce biofuels is pushing...

Daily downticks and corporate meltdowns show how bears make money, even if it's a trickier practice, given the market's tendency to inch higher over long stretches of time. If that sound bite is flawed, how many other morsels of investing wisdom come with hollow centers? How many people boil down market philosophy to four simple words that can burn them in the end? Sell on the news Speculative investors buy on the rumor and sell when they're right, but where's the joy in that? They took on...

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Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published:Tuesday, April 10, 2007 The latest "science" report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change landed Friday, but it contains not a word on the latest climate-science fiasco. Somewhere there should have been a typical IPCC alarm-riddled sentence to alert us to a very real and immediate climate crisis: the ethanol-food disaster. Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published:Tuesday, April 10, 2007 The latest "science" report from the...