Local cash soybean prices in southern Minnesota have also been declining in recent weeks, with many locations having cash soybean prices near $9 per bushel, or lower, by early June. The cash soybean price has dropped approximately $1 per bushel since the beginning of 2015, and is nearly $2 below the local forward contract price for 2014 soybeans a year ago at this time.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Civitas. In the history of Rome, the Latin term civitas, according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by law.
Noun. 1. provitamin-vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues. hydrocarbon-an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen. carotene, carotin, provitamin A-an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver.