Today is 31 May. This is an important crop insurance date because it is the "drop-dead" date for crop insurance planting in many states, especially in the Northern Plains. Crop insurance payment yields start to decline by 1 percent per day for each day the crop isn't planted. Just two months ago we were worried about a significant drought that encompassed the Corn Belt and the Northern Plains. Today we are begging for the rain to stop. The national planting numbers have been in the news daily because of the wet weather and slow planting progress, but here are a few important numbers to consider. As of last Sunday:
There were still 13.6 million acres of corn to plant. There were still more than 41 million acres of soybean to plant. I...
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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