Grains and oilseeds traded a largely uneventful day while waiting for the USDA’s WASDE report on Friday. Livestock futures were lower with cattle futures tumbling on quiet cash markets while cash hog prices moved lower as well. Wall Street is higher on continued earnings growth/positive surprises and from Friday’s bullish jobs report.
Corn December corn finished ¼ -cent lower on a day with little news to move the market. The weather is increasingly hot/dry heading into mid-August which will not help corn yields. The weather issues around the world are well-known and mostly unchanged for today. The trade is eagerly waiting USDA’s forecast of the U.S. yield, as well as its updated assessment of world ending...
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...
