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Co-ops nervously eye Ethanol Africa
...maize price, and indeed the price of all grains, is that these will rise steeply in the coming months. This is largely due to seriously depleted world stocks and drought...
Oz farmers get Kiwi break
Australian farmers are being offered a break from the country’s crippling drought through free holidays in New Zealand. New Zealand farmers are loaning their holiday homes to the visitors through...
super sorghum: no appeal yet
...to maximise impact and adoption of new technologies. “After millet, sorghum is the most drought-resistant grain crop and a highly versatile one that can contribute to household food security, forage...
Drought sees maize price skyrocketing
...to Grain chairperson Neels Ferreira, the current severe drought in these areas – and with no prospect of rain – is now driving the market. “The past few days I...
Bioethanol may boost prices – but not for long
...stage there was a 10t/ha maize club in KwaZulu-Natal with a limited membership. Nowadays all irrigated maize produces more than 10t/ha. The development of additional biotech properties such as drought...
Protea nutrition: food for thought
...drought tolerance of sclerophyllous or hard-leaved plants, invasion by herbaceous annuals, reduced lifespan and unnecessary accumulation of nutrients in soil or leaching of nutrient into the groundwater). Meanwhile, a pamphlet...
Where animals and humans meet
...says. Do that and the yield of animal protein from your property during culling and hunting will exceed that which occurs under conventional management. Drought tolerance and runoff retention will...
Perspective-Crops wither in dry, hot weather
...outside Bothaville shows clear indications of drought stress as leaves close up to reduce transpiration before they eventually start to die back, as can be seen on the plants in...
An agricultural odyssey Down Under
It’s big, it’s flat, it’s a land of extremes – including blistering droughts. But while farming remains a fundamental part of Australian life, it has taken a heavy toll on...
‘No U-turn on white Zim farmers’
...be made available to the landless people,” Mutasa said. Zimbabwe’s agricultural productivity has fallen by more than 60% since 2000. Mugabe has blamed the drop on drought. – Fidelis Zvomuya....
The Western Sanga- the future breed for North West
...including severe drought and veld fires, where other breeds simply have perished.The Western Sanga herd at Wolwehoek Farm that belongs to Mrs Dipale in the Zeerust district in North West,...
