Wheat The Argentine harvest keeps moving at a good pace and the national average yield is increasing as combines enter areas in the center and south of Buenos Aires. The national average increased from 1.88 MT/ha to 1.96 MT/ha last week. The weekly progress was 11 percent and total harvested reached 53.5 percent. The quality of this year’s harvest is very heterogeneous; grains are dry and healthy but the test weight and protein/gluten vary significantly between areas. The wheat export vessel lineup remains incredibly low, with vessels waiting to load now about 200 KMT. December will likely end with exports of 0.5-0.6 MMT, which would be 66 percent below last year.
The arrival of trucks to ports is also well below that...
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...
