There were several developments this week that were of interest to both the markets and producers.
Soybean export sales activity has been increasing rapidly. USDA has made daily sales announcements, mostly to China and unknown, in 14 of the last 17 business days. Outstanding export sales and accumulated shipments to that country now stand at 7.3 MMT just one week into the new marketing year versus 9.9 MMT at this time last year. USDA has already announced 980,000 MT of export sales that will be included in next Thursday’s weekly report. Those in the unknown category still lag last year by 4 MMT, but that gap should also start to narrow quickly. The initial crop revenue insurance price guarantee calculation period for the 2018 hard red w...
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Kolkwitzia amabilis /kɒlˈkwɪtsiə əˈmæbɪlɪs/,[2] commonly known as beauty bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae. It is the sole species in genus Kolkwitzia.[1] It is a deciduous shrub grown as an ornamental plant. In China, where it originated, the plant is cal...
The Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus) is a rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It occurs only in the U.S. state of Washington, at the middle elevations of the Olympic Peninsula. The closest relatives of this species are the hoary marmot and the Vancouver Island marmot. In 2009, it was decl...
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventer), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus.[2] It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous and semi-arid regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, includin...
