Today’s USDA supply and demand estimates increased old crop ending stocks of U.S. corn, wheat and soybeans. No adjustments were made to the 2019 corn and soybean planted acres numbers, and the yield estimates for those crops are very close to record-high levels.
The biggest surprise in USDA’s production estimates for the six major wheat-exporting countries wasn’t that prospects look much better than last year’s drought-reduced crops, it was the magnitude of the forecast increase for the EU at 16.8 MMT. That seems aggressive today. While still very early, conditions also remain very dry across most of West Australia and the Canadian Prairies. As a result, wheat seeding has barely gotten underway.
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The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain areas of Africa (and historically, Arabia) and is the largest living species of bird. The common ostrich is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus St...
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