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...
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...
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