Getting ahead of cutworms: Lessons from 2025 to help farmers prepare for 2026/27
Cutworm pressure may have eased in some areas over the past two seasons, but farmers should not be caught off guard when conditions favour...
Corteva Raises the Bar on Seed Testing with Precision-Driven Approach
Seed quality is often associated with a laboratory test and a number printed on a seed bag. However, according to Viwe Siwisa Quality Testing...
What we don’t know about our hearts can hurt us
By Merilynn Steenkamp, General Manager, Southern Africa Multi-Country Network at Roche Diagnostics29 September is World Heart Day. Perhaps this is not a date on...
GEA’s Milking Robots Get a Smart Redesign for Improved Efficiency
GEA is repositioning its automatic milking systems (AMS): At EuroTier 2026 (November 10 to 13, Hanover, Hall 13, booth C25), the company will showcase...
Connected, flexible, resilient: GEA shows future perspectives for dairy farming at EuroTier 2026
At EuroTier 2026 (November 10–13, Hanover, Germany, Hall 13, Booth C25), GEA will show how digital and automated technologies can help farms address current...
Over 1 Million Cardiovascular Deaths in Africa in 2019 — Can Nutrition Education Turn...
As World Heart Day approaches, PAN South Africa highlights evidence-based nutrition and culinary medicine as tools for prevention.More than 1 million people died from...
Orffa Strengthens Gut Health & Immunity Expertise with Professor Nadia Everaert
Breda, the Netherlands - Orffa has appointed Professor Nadia Everaert of KU Leuven to its Scientific Advisory Board, strengthening the company's scientific expertise in...
Tapestry that took an Eastern Cape village’s climate story to the world goes up...
Umlibo, a 5x2 m tapestry stitched by 41 women and two men in a remote village on the Eastern Cape coast, goes to auction...
SGS secures new three-year PVoC contract for Tanzania’s China Zone imports
SGS, the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company, has been awarded a new three-year Pre-Shipment Verification of Conformity to Standards (PVoC) contract by...
Agriculture has been here before, but has it learnt its lesson?
By Abrie Rautenbach, Managing Executive for Agriculture at Absa CIB In August 1971, Richard Nixon went on American television and announced to the world that...