They've gotten a bad name because individual investors too often wade into these markets without enough experience and get thoroughly soaked. The CBOE the world's largest options marketplace has been teaching individual investors the nuances of options trading for years via an educational effort called the Options Institute. A futures contract is a legal pact in which the purchaser agrees to buy or sell a certain amount of the underlying instrument at a set date in the future. Content...

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...

With frigid temperatures on their way out and spring officially in bloom, the Stateline Area will be welcoming sunnier days, greener grass and, without fail, more bugs. The problem with the variant western corn rootsworm is that it has adapted to crop rotation systems, Montgomery said, posing a significant problem to corn crops. Thousands of Brood XIII cicadas, the native species of the area which belong to the &#8220Magicicada genus of the periodic variety, are scheduled to emerge, and...

Apr16,2007-The findings would suggest that if men consume only skim milk (two cups) after each of their workouts, they would gain almost twice as much muscle in 10 weeks than if they drank the same amount of protein as a soy drink. It compared how much muscle protein young men gained after completing a heavy weight workout followed by consumption of equivalent amounts of protein as either fluid skim milk or a soy drink. Apr16,2007-The findings would suggest that if men consume only skim...

Emerald Biofuels has developed a proprietary process for manufacturing biodiesel fuel from soybean oil and other seed crops. Bayer CropScience has operations in more than 120 countries and focuses on crop protection, nonagricultural pest-control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The state of West Virginia has expressed strong support for Emerald Biofuels and feels that the 30 million gallons per year of biodiesel from the plant furthers the state s goal of energy independence by 2030, Drew...