soybean acreage is expected to slide 11 percent and cotton production 20 percent this year alone, the Agriculture Department said. President Bush says the fuel additive distilled from mashed and fermented grain is a cheap-and-easy alternative to high-priced foreign oil, and some say it already has been an economic boon for moribund rural stretches. Ethanol, for decades an afterthought in the global fuels market, is in the midst of a booming renaissance despite a host of questions. The...

Prohibition crushed the burgeoning Tennessee wine industry, but more than a century later, almost 30 wineries and vineyards are producing thousands of cases of award-winning wine. In the late 1800s, it seemed as if wine grapes, not cotton or tobacco, would be the most important cash crop in the state. About the time Jack Daniel took over his boss's distillery in Lynchburg, searching for the perfect way to mellow his Tennessee sipping whiskey, many Tennessee farmers had turned their...

Losses likely to be in the millions after drought By Billy Bruce The Valdosta Daily Times VALDOSTA South Georgia farmers are facing a devastating financial hit after losing millions in the April cold snap and facing millions more in losses from what some are calling the worst drought in recent memory. Losses likely to be in the millions after drought By Billy Bruce The Valdosta Daily Times VALDOSTA South Georgia farmers are facing a devastating financial hit after losing millions in the...

Back to Headlines . Previous Story . Next Story. Oswal Woolen Mills Plans To Hit Capital Market By June (RTTNews) - Oswal Woollen Mills or OWM, Nahar Group of Company plans to enter into capital market by the last week of June. The Punjab-based OWM's Director, Dinesh Gogna said that the company is planning to raise Rs. The Director further said that the proceeds would be utilized to part finance its major expansion programmes of Rs.

China's cotton imports in April were down 56% on the year to 215,000 metrictons, as the price of imports became less competitive than domestic cotton. cotton futures closed with modest gains, supported by speculator buyingbut pressured into the close by trade sales and speculative profit-taking,brokers and analysts said Friday. On the weekly chart, July cotton posted a key reversal and also remainedabove the 20- and 21-day moving averages, a constructive technical development,Stevens said....