Corn exports by major U.S. competitors continue to surge The U.S. is losing its long standing position as the world’s corn export provider. In the above graph, the shrinking blue area represents the shrinking U.S. global corn exports. Twelve years ago, Argentina was the only other major corn exporter, but now Brazil, the Ukraine, and [...]
1. The New Wyoming Supercomputer. This video explains the newly opened NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC), which provides advanced computing services to scientists studying a broad range of disciplines, including weather, climate, oceanography, air pollution, space weather, computational science, energy production, and carbon sequestration. It also houses a landmark data storage and archival facility that will [...]
Icelandic horses. Photo credit: Flickr CC via Neil D’Cruze Here are my chosen news links for this week…. ● How rising food prices are impacting the world – High grain costs, caused by severe drought, are hitting dinner tables from Guatemala to China. But the world has learned valuable lessons since the food shocks of [...]
