So, it s better to be cautious on the market in the short term. Most pundits were murmuring about an impending correction and resigned to waiting a few more months for the market to cross the magical 15K mark. Domestic investment is peaking and making way for higher consumption demand. But growth rates look sustainable over the long term. Parking zone KRISHNA KANT Simplex Projects, a Kolkata-based construction major, is coming out with an IPO of 30 lakh shares of face value of Rs 10 each....

Phil Bredesen has requested a federal designation of natural disaster for agriculture for all 95 counties in Tennessee to help farmers who have suffered crop and livestock losses as a result of extreme drought conditions. We want to ensure that our state's farmers have access to all of the emergency assistance available to them to help them recover from this agricultural disaster. The lack of rainfall has stunted development of major crops including corn and soybeans, which have seen the...

But two other crops, switchgrass and hybrid poplar, could steal the show in the future when it comes to curbing greenhouse gases, according to Agricultural Research Service and collaborating scientists. Corn and soybeans may be the current "go-to" crops for producing ethanol and biodiesel, respectively. John Thune has his way, there will be incentives for farmers to produce switchgrass, fast-growing trees and other cellulosic crops and to deliver them to an emerging network of cellulosic...

This afternoon s crop condition report is expected to reveal a slight decline in the quality of the winter wheat crop following the heavy rains there in late June. OVERVIEW: The grain and soybean markets ground lower overnight on the back of forecasts for thundershowers across parts of the US Midwest that should help to replenish recently dry soils. After the recent dry and hot weekend, whether or not decent rains do arrive in US growing areas will be the focus of trade over the near term,...

For western Kentucky grain farmer Bill Clift, last week's heavy rains came just in time for his drought-stressed corn crop. Farmers elsewhere in Kentucky also benefited from rains that could prop up yields in the autumn and possibly rejuvenate stagnant pastureland and hay fields to feed hungry cattle. The latest report said 61 percent of the soybean crop was in good or excellent shape, up from 50 percent in the two categories a week earlier. Now, he estimated that his latest corn crop...