The market opened much as the overnight closed but then things shifted for some contracts. Wheat was understandably down on chances for precipitation in some droughty areas but there was less apparent reasoning in other commodities. Despite closing lower today, corn and soybean values remain undergirded overall.
The trade expected export sales to be generally lower than last week, and they were for wheat and corn, though soybeans and soymeal posted higher numbers. Expectations remain high for more corn sales and a flash sale to China this morning reinforced that attitude. Again, wheat not so much as it gets easily beaten by Black Sea offers.
The one warning light on Black Sea wheat is Moscow saying t...
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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