You would think that when supplies of corn and soybeans are headed to their tightest levels ever you would see strong basis levels. The opposite is true today. Certainly, the fact that corn and soybean harvests are underway is a major reason for the weakness in basis, but there are some other important reasons as well.
Harvests for every commodity are early this year. In fact, it isn't just early, it is extremely early. Spring wheat harvest that is normally completed in August was basically finished in July. The corn and soybean harvests in the Northern Plains already are actively underway, with moisture content in the soybeans as low as 8 percent and corn already at 20 percent or less. The weak basis isn't the result of farmers aggre...
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...
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