Grains and oilseed futures were largely flat ahead of Friday’s WASDE report with wheat and soybeans finding small gains near the close. Cattle futures found late day strength while hog prices succumbed to more bearish influences and hit new contract lows. Wall Street is mixed with more trade war threats creating uncertainty, despite Elon Musk’s suggestion yesterday that he would take Tesla private at $420/share (Tesla stock rallied 11 percent on the news). Notwithstanding Tesla bullishness, stocks comprising the S&P 500 pushed the index to approach its lifetime high but as of yet the index has not been able to touch or break this point.
Corn December corn finished ½-cent higher today in quiet, range b...
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...
