The CBOT opened higher with soyoil following through on yesterday’s upside breakout and charging to new highs. The latest Argentine weather forecasts are threatening the corn and soybean crops there, which helped CBOT futures higher as well. Corn and soybeans posted solid gains with supportive technicals and speculative traders hesitant to be short heading into a weekend of hot, dry weather for Argentina just ahead of the March WASDE. Wheat futures struggled as the U.S. dollar strengthened and traders used the commodity as the sell-leg of soy/wheat and corn/wheat spreads. For Friday, funds are thought to have bought 10,000 contracts of soybeans, 12,000 of corn, and 3,000 of wheat. The Argentine weather is once again the key var...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.