The news from the weekend trade talks with China wasn’t good, which prompted a continuation of last week’s sell-off in wheat, corn, and soybeans. The “big swing” is that the market has gone from expecting a $25 billion increase in commodity sales to China to thinking the U.S. could now see a big decline in commodity exports to China. Disappointing trade talks weren’t the only factor motivating the selloff. Last week’s markets finished with weekly technical reversals, which brought more liquidation of long positions. Funds are long everything except soybean oil. The U.S. Northern Plains and western Canada got a good shot of rain over the weekend. Weather is still an issue on other parts of th...
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.