Container-Grown, Retail-Ready: How Arable Grow Cracked Urban Farming
As South Africa faces mounting pressure from climate change, water scarcity and rapid urbanisation, the future of farming may not lie in fields. It...
Following the Water: Tracing Climate Change from African Rivers to the Ocean
A conversation with 2026 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant finalist Dr. Gabriel Akoko Juma
Water does not recognise the boundaries we have drawn on maps.Rain...
The Law’s Kitchen: Tomatoes, Jaffa Cakes and chicken tariffs
Written by Renier KriekThe law is often less interested in what things are than in what taxes, tariffs and statutes require them to be...
The untapped value of Rooibos to SA’s economy
For millions of South Africans, Rooibos is simply part of the daily ritual – a steaming cup in the morning, a refreshing iced drink...
The Netafim 5G Dosing Portfolio Wins Global Precision Fertigation Award
On the back of the recent launch of NetaJet™ 5G, an adaptive precision fertigation solution powered by GrowSphere™ technology, in the Southern and East...
Before We Cleared the Land, We Watched It
What a year of repeated observation in Prado, Bahia taught our family about sandy-soil recovery, low-cost digital field records and the value of sharing...
From yachts to sprayer booms: marine experience informs agricultural bearing selection
When an agricultural equipment manufacturer needed a lightweight, durable bearing solution for the pivot points of its carbon fibre sprayer booms, it turned to...
OPINION: The BPO Advantage — Turning Packhouse Seasonality Into Year-Round Efficiency
By George Bofilatos, Solutions Specialist at Programmed Process Outsourcing (PPO)Ask any manager in an agricultural packhouse about peak season, and the response is often...
Women’s participation in agriculture must move beyond subsistence farming
By Zanele Mabelane, Product Portfolio Head of Agriculture at FNB CommercialAccording to Stats SA, there are approximately 40,000 commercial farming units in South Africa,...
Beyond disease control: getting more bang for your buck
By Andries Duvenhage: Campaign Lead: Cereals, Deciduous Fruit & VegCrop protection should no longer be seen as an unavoidable expense to control pests and...