Grain trade was lackluster with profit taking and position squaring ahead of Thursday’s WASDE report. The livestock markets were another matter, however. The hog market imploded while cattle struggled to find direction after yesterday’s implosion. Wall Street is higher as of this writing with the S&P500 and Dow up fractionally. The U.S. dollar is flat/higher at 96.3 while crude oil futures reached seven-month lows. Crude oil has weakened significantly in recent weeks after a series of actions that some analysts say were motivated by President Trump purposefully attempting to lower prices ahead of the Midterm elections.
Corn December corn finished ¾ cents lower on low volume but remained above key movi...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
