Sunday, November 18, 2007 By Susan Buchanan The Wall Street Journal Global financial firms are muscling into renewable fuels with commodity funds and underlying indexes - based on bio-energy feed stocks - as crude-oil prices rise and interest in ethanol increases. Sunday, November 18, 2007 By Susan Buchanan The Wall Street Journal Global financial firms are muscling into renewable fuels with commodity funds and underlying indexes - based on bio-energy feed stocks - as crude-oil prices rise...

Early rice variety mitigates 'Monga' THIS year the farmers have completed harvesting of early variety Aman paddy BRRI Dhan-33 in the poverty-stricken five districts of the Rangpur region much ahead of the traditional harvesting period of transplanted Aman as reported recently from Rangpur by BSS. Early rice variety mitigates 'Monga' THIS year the farmers have completed harvesting of early variety Aman paddy BRRI Dhan-33 in the poverty-stricken five districts of the Rangpur region much...

Dongming Mei - a young professor with a growing reputation in nuclear and particle physics - came to USD from the Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico. He made the move in spite of existing labs and equipment, he said, because those things will come as the DUSEL in the Black Hills develops. The regents and university presidents are engaged in a systemwide push to significantly boost research, which they think will attract public and private grants. And a philosophy that South Dakota...

Warmer weather patterns from global warming will mean less predictable rainfall and monsoon seasons ''around which farming systems are designed and more extreme tropical cyclones. is the world's biggest producer of man-made carbon dioxide, followed by China, with India ranked fourth, according to the UN. The UN said keeping greenhouse gases at the current levels would still result in a temperature rise beyond 2100 of at least 2 degrees Celsius, and a sea level increase of at least 40...

Gold has rallied 23 per cent this year as the US currency fell to a record low against the. Markets are expecting availability of cotton to be lower on the back of. According to trade sources, production is likely to rise by a lakh tonne to. Rollover and switching into March has been dominating the previous week. Thomas and Company Ltd, the tea auctioneers. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu...

It's an especially important lesson for investors since sugar is currently undergoing yet another renaissance brought on by technological innovation. Brodrick takes a look at cotton and sugar and advises on how technological advances could create higher demands for natural resources. Brodrick takes a look at cotton and sugar and advises on how technological advances could create higher demands for natural resources. Sean Brodrick discusses the connections between technological innovations...

Instead of paving the way for GM crops to be grown in England, David Miliband must take on board the thousands of responses rejecting the Government's GM contamination plans and put in place policies that protect GM free food and truly promote his vision of sustainable farming. Instead of paving the way for GM crops to be grown in England, David Miliband must take on board the thousands of responses rejecting the Government's GM contamination plans and put in place policies that protect GM...

This gap in these two peaks is due to numerous management and agronomic factors that is farming communities mostly ignore due to one reason or the other. The first option is not applicable under the present circumstances as big part of agricultural land is being converted into residential and commercial plots in the process of urbanisation, salinity, water-logging, soil erosion and drought. It is an established fact that wheat crop matures at the same time, either sown in November,...

Department of Agriculture program that provides commodities to Oklahomans, but since commodity prices are so high the amount of food provided to communities has decreased, he said. Leeds does not depend heavily on federal commodity programs to provide a boost for farmers but does depend on another federal program that helps when crop prices drop. Bartram said keeping the commodity programs is important for farmers who are not only affected by high fuel prices, but high fertilizer prices as...