In the 05 August 2019 note we sketched out the importance of the recently signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement to South Africa’s agricultural sector .

South African commercial and smallholder farmers are exposed to an environment that is not always conducive to crop production

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool available for free in a smartphone app can predict near-term crop productivity for farmers in Africa.

By employing so-called deep-learning systems for crop recognition, machines that can combat weeds site-specifically with a minimum of labour and/or chemicals are getting ever closer.

Farmers in Southern Africa should from this year, adapt and plant drought-resistant crops, concentrate on short season varieties and rear drought-tolerant livestock breeds as the frequency of droughts intensifies.

Alltech Crop Science (ACS) recognises that a healthy and living soil is fundamental for plants to reach their fullest genetic potential and for successful crop production.

There is clear evidence that agriculture in South Africa has evolved to take natural climate variation into account

Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion.

There is a new way of testing milled maize that can pick the dangerous aflatoxin contamination and improve food safety, a study says.

My last column two weeks ago painted a bleak picture of SA’s 2019/2020 agricultural outlook, highlighting prospects of drought in some regions of the country. Lately, conditions have improved notably, and farmers managed to plant the area they intended.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and this rings true in Zimbabwe where the government is reformulating policy.

Looking at the current maize conditions, the country may have an above average crop

Maize market trends- The jury is still out when it comes to the impact the coronavirus outbreak in China will have on SA agricultural commodities.

California company Arable tries to make weather, crop, and soil data more accessible and actionable.

South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee releases its first estimate of the country’s 2019/20 summer crop harvest today

More than one billion acres of farmland around the world have been used to grow crops that have been genetically engineered with proteins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Scientists have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time.

To deal with drier conditions brought by a shifting climate, farmer Pamela Nyirenda last year shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava, among other new water-sipping crops such as groundnuts and cowpea.

As many markets across the globe begin to ease living restrictions and many consumers start to take tentative steps outside their homes, the world they are returning to is far different from the one they left at the beginning of the year.

The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has sickened millions and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, has had a wide-ranging impact on the grain and grain processing industries.