In response to lost soybean export sales to China because of the trade dispute, President Trump and USDA announced in August that farmers would be paid about $10 billion in “Tariff Aid Payments.” The rate of payments and fund allocations for the various commodities involved are detailed below.
There are many different commodities/products that will receive payments, but soybean producers are clearly the winners - just as they should be. 50 percent of these payments were authorized almost immediately, but issuance of the other 50 percent wasn’t a certainty. In fact, some analysts were surprised when it was authorized this week because China is buying U.S. soybeans again. These payments are based on 2018 production, and f...
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...
