Stay sharp when planting sunny sunflowers October 2015 In the past year, when many of the regions of this country were severely affected by drought, the value of sunflower as a drought resistant crop became evident. Where maize plants in some areas like here in the North West province yielded between 200 kg – 1
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Grain SA interviews… Thembinkosi Jeffrey Nxiba October 2015 Meet Thembinkosi Jeffrey Nxiba, a developing farmer who was born at Hlankom Village, about 25 km from Maclear towards Mt Fletcher. Thembinkosi attributes his progress and success to Grain SA and this hard worker would love to be a commercial farmer in the next five years. Where
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Moss Malo – passion (and cattle) is the key October 2015 To Moss Malo the award he received in 2005 as the Grain SA Developing Farmer of the Year remains one of the highlights of his farming career. Due to ill health and less favourable agricultural conditions in the past ten years, his focus has
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Nkgono Jane says… September 2015 Grain SA has been in the fortunate position to manage a farmer development programme which has been a result of cooperation between the Maize Trust, the Winter Cereal Trust, the Sorghum Trust, the Oil and Protein Seeds Development Trust, the ARC and the AgriSETA. Over many years, a team of
Follow these tank mixture guidelines September 2015 Pesticides (herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) are tank-mixed for various reasons including cost saving and time management. While it is common practice to tank-mix products, it is important to note that pesticides are chemicals that can react with one another to create both biological and physical interactions. Physical interactions
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Improve your wheat yield with crop rotation September 2015 Wheat production in the Western Cape, especially in the Swartland, was previously based on monoculture production. Before 1994, when wheat prices were governed by a Wheat Board, wheat was planted on nearly every open field a farmer had available. With the onset of our free-market economy
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