Corn prices and ethanol: Are the markets flaky - or working as they should?
- About eight percent of the weight of a box of corn flakes is corn. Less than five percent of the price of a box of corn flakes represents the cost of the corn - the rest is transportation, packaging, Super Bowl commercials, little plastic-wrapped toys for your kids, and more. Heck, the price of the box alone probably exceeds the cost of the co...Rice to leave Wisconsin technology association
ITAWi's Board of Director has begun a search for Rice's successor, and C...Sonic Foundry sets $3.75 stock price
Proceeds from the offering, which is expected to close on Dec. 27, 2006, will be used to support research and development and capital spending related to the company's search technology...Will BidRx start a drug price war?
The Oshkosh-based business has gone live with its new web site, where consumers can self-register and gain free access to compare costs and obtain other information about pre...Wisconsin joins price-fixing suit vs. D-RAM makers
States filed the complaint in San Francisco federal court against seven manufacturers of dynamic random access memory microchips (D-RAMs), accusing them of violating federal and Wisconsin antitrust laws from 1998 to 2002. The complaint alleges that...Alliant to add 100 megawatts of wind power by 2005, raise gas prices
MADISON - Wisconsin Power and Light Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of , announced Friday that the Wisconsin Public Service Commission had granted its request to raise rates for fuel-based electric service by 2 percent per year on an interim basis, effective immediately. The commission is expected to hold a p...Rice Centromere, Supposedly Quiet Genetic Domain, Surprises
MADISON - Probing the last genomic frontier of higher organisms, an international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical - genetic domain in rice. In doing so, the group, led by Jiming Jiang, a professor of horticulture at the , and C. Robin Buell of the <a href="h...