Almost everyone expected bearish corn and soybean numbers in today’s series of USDA reports, and that is what they were for the most part. If there was a bearish surprise, though, it came in the winter wheat acreage estimate. Southern Plains farmers apparently planted more hard red winter wheat than anyone expected, and that pressured wheat all day. Winter wheat acres will be lower than last year, but they will not be small enough to generate any buying. The trade was also expecting the soybean export forecast to be reduced, and USDA obliged by cutting 65 million bushels from the previous estimate. That was partially offset by a 10 million bushel increase in the crush forecast and a slight reduction in the soybean yield. Soybean endi...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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