BY HEATHER AUGUSTYN Times Correspondent LAPORTE . Members of a local group that opposed an expressway through southern Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties are supporting their neighbors, who face a struggle similar to the one that took place in their own backyards. BY HEATHER AUGUSTYN Times Correspondent LAPORTE . Members of a local group that opposed an expressway through southern Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties are supporting their neighbors, who face a struggle similar to the one that...

By using it instead of sugar, the size of soda drinks in our children's hands can be increased several times over with no increase in the cost of manufacture. Rather, on balance, it's helpful that the letter called attention to this industrialized component of a great many commercial foodstuffs. We can't depend on a Washington hired hand for agribusiness and organized corn refiners to inform us accurately and without bias about what goes into our daily foodstuffs. Corn hybrids are...

The company is into the business of research, production, processing and marketing of high quality hybrid seeds for crops like corn, sunflower, cotton, pearlmillet, paddy, grain and sorghum and has recently forayed into micronutrients and bioproducts. The company will offer a net public issue of 38 lakh shares. The net issue will constitute 29. MUMBAI: The initial public offering of Kaveri Seed Company Ltd opened for subscription on Thursday. The issue closes on Tuesday. Anand Rathi...

The sunflowers are heavy with seed now and doves flocked in to feed. The next three hours were bliss: Plenty of birds, good retrieving work by my young Labrador, Nellie, a bright day tempered by cool breezes and a limit of 12 doves for each of us. While I fussed with the coals, my wife stripped sweet corn and fixed a tomato salad. Four of us took up station at noon in a weed field in Howard County where Johnny and Larry Coburn toiled over the summer to put in a half-acre of sunflowers....

Burrington, a researcher at WCDR, said a survey last spring showed most guys on the football team liked using the drink after practice or games. Researchers believe the protein helps muscles recover from hard exercise, and Burrington said it would also help non-athletes after less strenuous workouts. Available in orange and strawberry flavors, the aptly named Recovery Drink aims to help athletes repair their muscles after tough workouts and games. The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research on...

TISZAKESZI, Hungary - This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called KlimaFa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a denuded island by the Tisza River to offset the Vatican's carbon emissions. TISZAKESZI, Hungary - This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called KlimaFa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a...

That's because preparing a budget is not merely a mechanical process of comparing income with outgo and figuring how to make the two columns balance. Rather, a budget at heart is a statement of priorities expressed in financial terms: You want to take the kids to Disney World next spring? With air fare, admission tickets, hotel and food, that will cost around $2,000. That's because preparing a budget is not merely a mechanical process of comparing income with outgo and figuring how to make...

The online shopping comparison marketplace that helps you find discount shopping and compare prices on products and services in your city and around the country. Palmateer said he probably goes through 20 batches of caramel corn a day between his booth and the 13th Street store, leaving little room for him to get out and enjoy. That means tie-dye, drum circles and plenty of beer, though the deepest roots of the annual event are family and community. Teeter said there was a performance...

George explains how the consensus is always wrong about what the next six months is going to look like in financial markets. Unless oil prices drop below $50 a barrel and corn spikes over $4 a bushel, ethanol producers' return on capital remains attractive enough to expand production. There's little more to do than ice down the catch and cart it to the marketplace. The construct on LBOs is changing--higher costs to carry, less leverage and lower multiples of earnings before interest,...