Iets vir almal by vanjaar se Kersmark

Graan SA het vanjaar met OFM as mediavennoot hande gevat vir die OFM NAMPO PARK Kersmark wat vanaf 24 tot 27 November op NAMPO Park buite Bothaville beplan word. Volgens Toit Wessels, assistentbestuurder: Bemarking en...

Producers grow for gold

Grain SA hosted the second annual Grow for Gold National Yield Competition in Muldersdrift on Thursday 30 September, celebrating 42 producers across 15 categories for outstanding yields achieved with maize, soybean and sunflower crops...

First new biotech for soybeans in 20 years

The end of July 2021 saw the South African regulatory authority approve a new genetically modified (GM) soybean trait for the first time in almost 20 years. Intacta® Roundup®Ready2 Pro (Intacta® RR2 Pro) is only...

Bewaringsboerdery: sleutel tot besparing en wins

Die slotsom van Landbouweekblad se Herlewingslandbou-webinaar 2021 wat op 27 en 28 Julie plaasgevind het, is dat herlewingslandbou oor meer as net ’n nala­tenskap gaan omdat bewaring reeds terwyl dit toegepas word besparing meebring....

Die seën van ’n swak staat

Ja, daar’s baie in Suid-Afrika om oor te kla. Somtyds, soos onlangs met die plundery in KwaZulu-Natal en Gauteng, kan ’n mens skoon neerslagtig raak. Maar daar is straks ’n redelik breë silwer randjie...

Appèlhof besin oor oordrag van waterregte

Agri SA en die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging van Water­gebruikersverenigings (SAAFWUA) het in Augustus die Hoogste Hof van Appèl in Bloemfontein gena­der vir die aanhoor van drie appèlle (Lötter, Wiid en SAAFWUA). Dit het te make...

Unrest in KZN – reflections and lessons learnt

The recent unprecedented unrest which swept from the two main cities in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Durban and Pietermaritzburg, through to rural towns and communities across the province, has forever changed the agricultural environment in which...

Sclerotinia research: then and now

The first report of Sclerotinia in South Africa was on apricots in 1953. Thereafter, the disease was reported on soybeans in Lydenburg (1979) and sunflower (1980) in localised regions of Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North...

Plant health is critical to sustainable and profitable production

The Grain SA Research and Policy Centre team manages and coordinates research efforts in a consortium-based approach. The three main research consortia are crop improvement, plant health and climate resilience and were established to...

Ek is genoeg

Wat is hierdie aanhoudende, deurdringende stemmetjie wat heeldag en aldag sy koppie uitsteek vanuit my dieper onderbewussyn en tussen my twee ore fluister “ek is nie goed genoeg nie”? Waar kom die stemmetjie vandaan? Van kleintyd...

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