Managed money remains heavily short wheat, corn and soybeans. Meanwhile, the focus of today's wheat markets was more on planting progress in the weeks ahead than potential crop troubles caused by dry weather.' General Comments Markets were very quiet overnight, but the trend turned decidedly lower once they opened this morning and those lower trends held throughout the session. Following are some of the issues driving today's sell-off:
Extended weather forecasts look excellent for planting spring crops (corn, soybeans). Options against the May futures contracts expired today. Technical signals turned ugly in corn and wheat. Funds selling was present in every agricultural commodity. Next Thursday is first notice day for delive...
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...
