Die voordele van grondmikrobes vir grondgesondheid
Die struikelblokke in die pad van volhoubare gewasproduksie plaas die fokus opnuut daarop om biologiese oplossings vir landbougrond te vind. Gesonde grond het die vermoë om optimale gewasverbouing te verseker.
Mikrobes speel ’n belangrike rol...
Quality hybrids yield high oil content
Oilseed crops are the second-largest source of food after cereals, with a large expansion worldwide due to high demand for vegetable edible oil. Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the four most important...
Maize crop quality – a look at the 2017/2018 season’s results
During the 2018 harvesting season, a representative sample of each delivery of maize at the various grain intake points was taken according to the prescribed grading regulation. A total of 900 composite samples, representing...
Maize crop in the spotlight
The 2018/2019 maize production season is represented by the results of the 22nd annual maize crop quality survey. A total of 808 composite samples, representing white and yellow maize from 28 of the 36...
Machinery and implements for conventional farming systems
September 2018
JOHAN VAN BILJON and DR TINGMIN YU, ARC-Agricultural Engineering
The optimal use of the correct equipment and implements is necessary to optimise farming production and to maximise operational profit. All mechanisation actions need to...
Benchmarking – a powerful tool
The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) is not new to benchmarking and the effective use thereof to measure farm-level competitiveness. BFAP is part of the international agri benchmark network, where various crop-producing...
The effects of herbicides on soil life Part 2: Beneficial fungi and bacteria
October 2018
DR MARYKE CRAVEN, CHARNÉ MYBURGH, OWEN RHODE and DR JEANETTA SAAYMAN-DU TOIT, ARC-Grain Crops, Potchefstroom
Weeds are a persistent threat to crop productivity worldwide. In an effort to optimise yield by controlling these unwanted...
Local and imported wheat quality reviewed
Wheat samples of the 2019/2020 season were the first crop survey to be graded according to the latest bread wheat grading regulations published in the Government Gazette No. 42862, dated 29 November 2019.
These regulations...
Hoe akkuraat was die Oesskattingskomitee?
March 2015
— 13 Februarie 2015
PETRU FOURIE, ekonoom, Bedryfsdienste, Graan SA
Die 2013/2014-produksieseisoen, veral in die westelike dele van Suid-Afrika, sal as een van die beste in terme van landboutoestande onthou word, als te danke aan...
Koste en gebruik van Eragrostis curvula-hooi en -weiding
Met die afname in winsgewendheid van veevertakkings, stygende insetkoste en wisselende produksiepotensiaal is dit opnuut nodig om die winsgewendheid van Eragrostis curvula-hooi te evalueer.
Weidings word gewoonlik op gronde met laer potensiaal aangeplant, met die...
