The much-anticipated USDA WASDE report contained a lot of red (see table below) but all the major agricultural commodity contracts nonetheless managed to experience a green-light day. Corn, wheat and soybeans were all higher ahead of the report on the White House announcement that it would postpone imposing new tariffs on China. An improved export sales report (see table below), word of more export sales to come (Taiwan and China), plus short-covering helped set the tone for a stronger open ahead of the WASDE report. The report itself was bullish soybeans, bearish corn and neutral wheat.
The weather outlook for finishing the U.S. crop looks positive, but attention remains focused on dryness in some of Brazil’s key soybea...
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...
