The Thanksgiving holiday week closed with a day of very light trading volume and little interest in the markets. Following are a few news items from this week that are worth considering:
AgRural said today that Brazil’s early soybean crop outlook could be the best ever, and the consulting group’s initial forecast is 123-129 MMT. There has been some concern about how wet conditions have been, but it seems the crop was planted earlier than in the past few years. Wet weather in Argentina has also prompted chatter about the potential for quality problems in that mature wheat crop. The harvest, however, is pegged at 22 percent complete, which is right at last year’s pace. The grain exchanges there have reduced their product...
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...
