Corn Most of Argentina’s agricultural area continues to be impacted by drought. The early planted corn is almost finished but the late planted crop is passing through the critical yield-defining phases under drought stress. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reported a huge deterioration in crop conditions last week, especially with the late planted corn, of which the good/excellent rating fell 18 percent. Across the entire crop (early- and late-planted corn) only 17 percent is rated excellent/good while 55 percent is rated fair and 28 percent poor/very poor). Harvest reached 3.5 percent of the area and there was combine movement in the core region where some plots are showing good yields.
Given the above conditions, the BAGE r...
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...
