The number of new accounts for trading Chinese A-shares (the most basic stock available to retail traders in the Middle Kingdom) is dropping far from recent record highs. This September, find out first-hand - from no fewer than eight experts - precisely how to cash in on the coming $20 trillion investment bonanza. Despite all the Wall Street hubbub about the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting 14,000, the Shanghai Stock Exchange and its progress so far this year absolutely dwarfs the Dow...

Because of wet conditions this spring that delayed some corn planting, Hamer said some corn has yet to pollinate, while the earlier planted corn is through the pollination period. With the area corn crop at a critical time in its development, the National Weather Service in Hastings is forecasting a blazing hot week ahead. The report said that corn conditions were rated 74 percent good or excellent, compared to 61 percent last year at the same time. Temperatures in the upper 90s are being...

Published July 15, 2007 05:37 pm - This summer s dry weather could cost Indiana about $250 million in diminished corn and soybean yields, according to an early estimate from a Purdue University agricultural economist. FORT WAYNE This summer s dry weather could cost Indiana about $250 million in diminished corn and soybean yields, according to an early estimate from a Purdue University agricultural economist. Most of the corn in the state will be pollinating over the next few weeks, a...

Soybeans and corn went pouring out of the Watonwan Farm Service's primary grain elevator after a lightning bolt hit it, leaving a hole in the elevator and starting a small fire. The less-full soybean silo quickly emptied while corn poured and poured as people stood in the streets and watched sun set on this town of 719 people. Lighting strikes silo in town north of Albert Lea, and corn pours out. A ladder truck from Glenville sprayed water on the escaping corn to keep the grain dust wet....

Midday weather updates didn't change appreciably from the earlier outlooks, keeping futures trading at their lower limit levels in the first three months. US Commodities: Corn, Soybeans Tumble On Weather Worries. The losses reversed most of the gains set last week on predictions for hot and dry weather in mid-to-late July. There were also big weather-related price declines for soybean futures, which fell to the lower 50-cent daily trading limits. The market essentially priced in a reversal...