In today’s USDA/FAS export sales report for the week ended 12 July, there were a few interesting items deserving of some comment. Among them were the following sales:
30,000 MT of HRW to Argentina for 2018/19 80,000 MT of corn to Argentina for 2017/18 120,000 MT of soybeans to Argentina for 2018/19 30,000 MT of SRW to Brazil for 2018/19
This is a rare combination of sales of U.S. grain and soybeans to two countries normally seen as major competing exporters. It is so unusual that it is rumored that the reports of corn and HRW sold to Argentina are in error and will be corrected later. It is true that Argentina’s corn and soybean crops have been sharply reduced by drought, which has also hurt Brazil’s safrinha corn...
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...
