South Africa’s cherry industry had a challenging start to the 2026/27 season, with unusually early harvests, variable fruit quality, and delayed access to the Chinese market threatening export volumes ...

Agri Skills Transfer, recipient of the Innovation in Agriculture Award at the 2026 South African Agricultural Awards, is ...

With the 2026/27 production season already under way, farmers should consider whether their businesses are financially ...

Although calves are less susceptible to the effects of heat than lactating cows, heat stress during their first two months ...

At the 2026 Grain SA/Syngenta Grain Producer of the Year Awards, winner Pieter Nortjé shared his farming story, while ...

Southern Africa’s food security faces mounting pressure as geopolitical conflict, rising energy and fertiliser costs, ...

There is no bigger motivator for fine-tuning a crop nutrition programme than the rising cost of fertiliser. Soil analysis is ...

Protected production provides greater control over growing conditions, but success still depends on healthy plants, sound ...

Bernard Rabé of Rabé Boerdery in the Fochville area in North West runs a grain-focused operation on dryland. He aims to achieve the highest possible yield by following variable fertiliser and seed ...

Vegetable farmer Sophy Litshani Musabeni has won the Agricultural Development Agency’s (AGDA) 2026 Agricultural Business ...

An unusual crop is helping a Gauteng farming enterprise explore new opportunities in the fresh produce and preserves markets.

Vaccines are only as effective as the protocols behind them. Dr Noluvuyo Magadla, director of animal health at the Western ...