Free State farmers plot the path to a profitable season
Grain farmers from across the Free State turned out in large numbers for the 2025/26 Free State Pre-Planting Farmers’ Information ...
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WATCH | This week’s Fresh Produce Outlook
Dr Johann van der Merwe, Director of AMT, looks at the latest fresh produce price movements.
Zimbabwe’s maize production is recovering, but import needs remain substantial
They may still need imports of 700 000 tonnes in 2025-26 marketing year. Maize demand in the Southern African region ...
Here comes another record canola harvest
Five years ago, the canola industry was excited about a harvest of more than 100 000 tonnes, but if conditions ...
An alternative market for cassava farmers
If an invention by Vital Nzaka, a Congolese chemist and inventor, is anything to go by, then cassava farmers might ...
Pesticides ‘essential part of farming’
Crop protection is essential to enable farmers to protect crops that ultimately provide the population with food and drink, animal ...
Chill units up to 40% more this year
Does this winter feel colder to you than last year’s? So far this winter, crops in parts of the country ...
Ban on Terbufos as a pesticide not yet in effect
The government's decision to ban Terbufos as a pesticide is not yet applicable, because an entire process still needs to ...
Climate change threatens global crop sustainability
New research using Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations’s (FAO) upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool (ABC-Map) ...
Warning! Visiting pests devour pastures overnight
African armyworms (Spodoptera exempta), which are related to the more common fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), are devouring pastures in Limpopo ...
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