SOIL: THE PRODUCER’S MOST IMPORTANT ASSETPart 23: Soil formation processes
Soil does not form by chance, but as a result of the influence of the five soil formative factors: climate, organisms, topography, parent material and time. These soil formative factors control the soil formation...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 2: Weeping lovegrass (Eragrotis curvula)
This article is the second of a series of articles highlighting a specific pasture crop species that can play an imperative role in conservation agriculture (CA) based crop-pasture-rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 10: Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
This article is the tenth in a series of articles highlighting a specific pasture crop species that can play an imperative role in CA-based crop-pasture rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological and biological...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 14: Seradella (Ornithopus species)
This article is the 14th in a series of articles highlighting a specific pasture crop species that can play an imperative role in CA-based crop-pasture rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological and biological...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 22: Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)
This article is the 22nd of a series of articles highlighting a specific pasture crop species that can play an imperative role in conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop-pasture rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 12: Oats (Avena sativa)
This article is the twelfth in a series of articles highlighting a specific pasture crop species that can play an imperative role in conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop-pasture rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological...
Van sandkorrel tot pêrel
Ek is so lief vir pêrels en kan my verwonder aan die glans daarvan en hoe dit verskillende kleure reflekteer. As Spreuke 31:10 (OV) sê dat ’n knap vrou baie meer werd is as...
Integrated crop and pasture-based livestock production systems – Part 26: Integration of pasture leys...
This article is the 26th and final of a series of articles highlighting crop species that can play an imperative role in conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop-pasture rotations. Besides improving the physical, chemical, hydrological and...
Graan SA op grondvlak in gesprek met lede
Met ’n onseker seisoen wat die weer en reënval betref, het die jaarlikse Graan SA-streeksvergaderings vol verwagting by Agri Delmas Lapa afgeskop. Die vergaderings het ten doel om graan-, mark- en heffingsinligting asook die...
Control of weeds in maize and wheat – Part 1: Spiny Emex
Scientific name: Emex australis
Afrikaans name: Kaapse dubbeltjie
English name: Spiny Emex, Three-cornered Jack, Devil’s thorn
Short description
Decumbent to semi-erect annual plants, up to 60 cm high when growing densely. Leaves and stems appear vivid green from seedling stage....
