StatsCanada released the results of its survey of farmers on their planting intentions this year. The survey was conducted during March and, given developments since then, some of the numbers were surprising:
Canola acres could fall 6.7 percent despite record high futures prices. This could be one crop that farmers ultimately decide to plant more than they thought they would back in March. The wheat area was expected to expand, and it will, especially for durum where supply and use hit a 20-year low on drought impacts. The largest percentage increase in area will be in oats, where global ending stocks are down 25 percent and off 15 percent from the five-year average. Pulses are the new alt-meat protein and supposedly a trending...
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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