Here is what is going on in the agriculture industry this week…
Our first article is from March 4th, 2020 out of the Daily Times. This is a chart that shows the changes in stock market prices.
Here are the results…
Fuels:
- Crude oil (bbl) – decreased $10.07
- Ethanol (gal) – decreased $1.27
- Heating oil (gal) – decreased $6.94
- Natural gas (mm btu) – decreased $3.61
- Unleaded gas (gal) – decreased $8.73
Agriculture:
- Cattle (lb) – decreased $2.67
- Coffee (lb) – decreased $3.55
- Corn (bu) – decreased $1.89
- Cotton (lb) – decreased $0.88
- Lumber (1,000 bd ft) – decreased $1.74
- Orange juice (lb) – decreased $0.53
- Soybeans (bu) – decreased $0.65
- Wheat (bu) – decreased $0.57
Metals:
- Gold (oz) – increased $0.26
- Silver (oz) – decreased $0.74
- Platinum (oz) – increased $3.55
- Copper (lb) – decreased $0.37
- Palladium (oz) – decreased $1.21
Our second article is from March 3rd, 2020 out of The Daily Times. The title of the article is, “Alcoa Elementary library hatches Chickens.” This article talk about how Alcoa elementary school did something different in their school and hatched chicks in their library. They used an incubator and wanted to give the kids real world experience to go along with the books they were reading. The librarian bought 6 eggs off of Amazon, and a friend gave her 6 more. The eggs were in the incubator for about three weeks. The chicks new home will be at the librarians farm along with goats, donkeys, and a tarantula.
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