Note: Grain and soy futures markets (and WPI) are closed tomorrow, 29 March, for the Good Friday holiday. They will reopen Sunday evening.
General Comments Traders generally approached today's quarterly stocks and planting intentions reports with a bullish bias, but USDA's reports were distinctly bearish. A detailed analysis of the report numbers was not required to reach bearish conclusions. The reports were issued at 12 p.m. EDT. As soon as 1 March corn stocks of 5.4 billion bushels flashed across screens a nano-second later, electronic sell orders flooded into the market, pushing corn prices down the 40-cent daily trading limit within seconds. The "get me out" mentality was overwhelming. Corn stocks that were about 400 million bu...
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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