USDA Cuts Forecast for U.S. Soybean Exports Again and Revises Other Estimates Today USDA unsurprisingly further reduced its forecast for U.S. soybean exports in 2017/18 by an additional 60 million bushels (1.633 MMT) to 2.1 billion bushels (57.16 MMT). With no other changes, the result was a 60-million-bushel increase in ending stocks to 530 million bushels (14.43 MMT), which equals a stocks-to-use ratio of 12.5 percent. USDA raised Brazil’s soybean crop by 2 MMT to 112 MMT and reduced Argentina’s from 56 MMT to 54 MMT. Considering private forecasters are now estimating the latter crop at 50-51 MMT, it can be argued that USDA was slightly too conservative in not lowering it even more. It made relatively few other revisions to...
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...
A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.