Bond yields rise amid rate fears Nobel prize winners compete, and drug development may benefit Pimco and Prudential buy Indonesian debt as inflation falls Creating more fish farms and cattle ranches is part of a five-year government plan stretching to 2010 to transform Malaysia's 840,000 farmers into competitive businessmen. Agriculture, which accounted for almost a third of Malaysia's economy in 1970, accounted for 8.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2006 after decades spent...

Lower export volumes of frozen boneless cuts of beef and of mechanical wood pulp had contributed most, respectively, to a 5.3 per cent fall in the meat index and an 8 per cent fall in the non-fuel crude materials index. Among the merchandise import volume indexes, the total intermediate goods index was up 2.6 per cent, to just below its all time high recorded in the June 2005 quarter. The merchandise import price index fell 2.1 per cent in the March quarter, with the main contributions...

After screening the country's 4-million cows, scientists from a research company found one with genes that made it able to produce skimmed milk. A remarkable churn of events in New Zealand has raised the possibility that it may soon be possible to buy skimmed milk straight from the cow. The cow's female progeny were found to have the same genes and now there are plans to breed a herd of these unique animals. Who would have believed that one day, fat-free milk would be regarded as la crme...

Attendees were given some of the most current information in the beef cattle industry, with topics including mineral supplementation, cull cow marketing operations, feed efficiency, by-product feeds, pasture weed control, alternative pasture fertilization, pasture mole cricket control and forage studies. Attendees were given some of the most current information in the beef cattle industry, with topics including mineral supplementation, cull cow marketing operations, feed efficiency,...

Market analysts, brokers and traders said the bulk of this week's trading was likely to hold off until after futures the futures market closed Friday afternoon. Urner Barry's Yellow Sheet at midday said offerings of middle meats open at steady to mostly barely steady pricing Friday, as sellers seek prices that will clear inventory. Bids generally were holding at $90, and asking prices were stuck on $94, traders, brokers and analysts said. The USDA reported choice beef prices at midday were...