NAMPO 2025: Uniting the world of farming on local soil
As agriculture faces mounting global challenges and increasingly interlinked food systems, the spotlight in 2025 turns to how local producers can harness global knowledge, networks, and innovations to strengthen South African agriculture. This year’s...
Driven by passion and dedication
Farming has taught Ranko Tsotetsi, the 2024 Grain SA/Absa/John Deere Financial New Era Commercial Farmer of the Year, many valuable lessons. One is that a farmer must work hard and keep his eyes and...
What is a restricted agricultural remedy and how to comply?
In August 2023, the Regulations relating to Agricultural Remedies were published under the Fertilisers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act (Act No. 36 of 1947). As the name suggests, these regulations are...
Impak van grysblaarvlek en noordelike blaarskroei
Noordelike blaarskroei en grysblaarvlek is twee beduidende blaarsiektes wat mielies in Suid-Afrika affekteer. Opbrengs word gewoonlik nie noemenswaardig deur hierdie siektes beïnvloed indien infeksie na fisiologiese volwassenheid voorkom
nie (R5 tot R6).
Grysblaarvlek floreer in warm,...
Impact of grey leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight
Grey leaf spot (GLS) and northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) are two significant foliar diseases affecting maize in South Africa. Both diseases generally do not impact yield significantly if infections occur after physiological maturity...
Kommandowurm in SA bespeur
Grain SA is aware of the recent African armyworm outbreaks that started in Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng, Carolina and Badplaas in Mpumalanga, and have since spread to the North West and Limpopo provinces. Because of...
African armyworm sightings in SA
Grain SA is aware of the recent African armyworm outbreaks that started in Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng, and Carolina and Badplaas in Mpumalanga and that have spread to the North West and Limpopo provinces.
African armyworm...
North-West University and Agricultural Research Council co-host 2025 NGRP annual meeting
Food security, climate change, and sustainability. These are some of the issues that will take centre stage from 19 to 20 March when the North-West University (NWU) and Agricultural Research Council (ARC) will be...
LEDE SOPAS WEER LANDWYD ONTMOET
Graan SA se jaarlikse streeksvergaderings het vanjaar vanaf 24 Januarie tot 6 Maart geduur. Hierdie vergaderings speel ’n sleutelrol in die ondersteuning en bemagtiging van graanprodusente oor Suid-Afrika heen. Met landbou as ’n dinamiese...
GSA deel van stuurkomitee vir Goss-verwelksiekte
Goss-verwelksiekte, wat die afgelope seisoen kop uitgesteek het in Suid-Afrika, is ’n uitdaging vir mielieprodusente. Dit word veroorsaak deur die bakterie Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis, wat hoofsaaklik mielies en sekere grasse affekteer, insluitend sorghum,...
