Published May 30, 2007 10:56 pm - To plant or not to plant? Today key deadline for farmers By Alan Mauldin THOMASVILLE As Russell Smith leans his arms across the tailgate of an old pickup truck, a brisk breeze kicks up clouds of dust in the dirt drive at his farm office. Published May 30, 2007 10:56 pm - To plant or not to plant? Today key deadline for farmers By Alan Mauldin THOMASVILLE As Russell Smith leans his arms across the tailgate of an old pickup truck, a brisk breeze kicks up...

Asian Cotton Mills Ltd (ASCOT) is in the process of converting itself into an investment holding company but has decided against more apartment development due to saturation in the condominium market. We are seeking to realise the maximum value from our asset base, and are considering options to redeploy part of our assets in other business in order to generate higher returns for our shareholders, Vijaya Malalasekera, Chairman, ASCOT has said in the annual report of the company. ASCOT sees...

Its activities include cotton ginning, marketing raw cotton exports and acting as a commercial agent. In May 2006, ACGC announced it had partnered with the Gulf investment firm Amwal Al-Khaleej Commercial Investment Company to form Amwal Al-Arabia, which currently serves as the holding company for KABO, ACGC and Alexandria Spinning and Weaving (SPINALEX, bt100 number 70) In May 2006, ACGC announced it had partnered with the Gulf investment firm Amwal Al-Khaleej Commercial Investment...

No NOCs for sugar mills until agricultural zoning study FIDA HUSSAIN ISLAMABAD (June 08 2007): The government will not allow the establishment of new sugar mills under the proposed new study of agricultural zoning, daily Business Recorder learnt on Thursday. No NOCs for sugar mills until agricultural zoning study FIDA HUSSAIN ISLAMABAD (June 08 2007): The government will not allow the establishment of new sugar mills under the proposed new study of agricultural zoning, daily Business...

That s putting a lot of pork into the pipeline, and the wholesale market has had trouble digesting all of it without discounting the price. Paradoxically, the market is trying to get 2008 contract prices high enough to motivate South American production expansion, since US production will be so much smaller this year. Ukrainian restrictions on new crop exports and a Pakistani halt to already sold old crop shipments reinforced ideas that export wheat is a scarce commodity. Fundamentally,...