Despite slowdown in wheat procurement, the government today ruled out increasing the minimum support price or bonus to purchase the grain. BIZ/FINANCE ARTICLES Sensex dips as High Court issued an interim order restraining Reliance Industries from selling natural gas from KG gas field Media Release The benchmark Sensex dipped below 14K-level on the Bombay Stock Exchange today by losing over 143 points on emergence of selling by funds at heavy-weight counters like Reliance Industries and...

May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's trade deficit widened more than expected in March as cyclones cut mining shipments from the world's largest exporter of iron ore. Australia's Trade Deficit Widens More Than Expected (Update3) By Hans van Leeuwen and Victoria Batchelor. Cyclones in mining regions and drought in the wheat belt may put a temporary brake on export growth before record investment spending by resource companies in 2006 begins to boost production and ease port bottlenecks, stoking...

Mr Tuckey wants AWB International scrapped and a grower controlled export authority appointed as the new single desk holder. Mr Gardiner says a single body is needed to oversee wheat exports. The Nationals candidate for the federal seat of O'Connor agrees with the Western Australian Farmers Federation's ideas about how wheat exports should be handled in the future. Phil Gardner is standing against Liberal Member Wilson Tuckey, who has held the seat for 27 years. This service may include...

As production of corn and wheat expanded, more and more mills were built along the waterways flowing into the Monocacy River. At one end of the building, farmers could load and unload their wagons under the protection of an overhang, and lucky children might get a ride up into the mill as well. The pond, covering about 20 acres, became an ice source and place for skating in the winter. Today it is still satisfying to make this journey, though you won't find peanuts for sale and the...

It's a historical curiosity that the financial press, particularly the sector that follows the oil markets, is among the first to notice. If the growth continues on its extrapolated curve, we will be hitting something like 9 billion over the next 4 to 5 decades. The exponential growth curve of human population, once a popular subject, has become one of the more underreported stories of the current era. In a way, increasing population combines with the aging of oil fields to create a...