Wheat Argentina’s wheat markets – and much of the world – remains focused on the weather issues plaguing the new crop, which will be harvested starting in November. The rains are not coming for Argentina’s wheat belt and conditions continue to deteriorate in most of the country. Moreover, there were fields last week that suffered frost and the stress is only magnified by the presence of drought. According to the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, only 17 percent of Argentina’s wheat crop is rated good/excellent, and 26 percent of the crop is in poor/very poor condition. Additionally, 35 percent of the crop is in soils with poor/dry conditions.
The core wheat zone and the north of the country each need rai...
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...
