March madness – keep your eye on the crop March 2020 Gavin Mathews, Bachelors in Environmental Management. Send an email to gavmat@gmail.com Keeping your maize crop heading in the right direction during the growing season can be challenging as there is always a lot on the go, and your time is spread thin. Having
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A word from…Graeme Engelbrecht February 2020 What does the future hold for you as an individual farmer? By now the planting season is behind us, we have all sweated, cursed, pushed hard, cried and prayed to get us to where we are now. Every year is the same struggle, actually it seems to get more
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Succession: Planning for the future February 2020 Gavin Mathews, Bachelors in Environmental Management. Send an email to gavmat@gmail.com There is a lot of uncertainty in agriculture, but the fact is that there always has been and there always will be. Everything we do is determined by external factors. All that we can control are
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Can rotation with cowpeas contribute to improved crops? February 2020 Jenny Mathews, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to jennymathews@grainsa.co.za Maize is a dominant and popular crop of choice in summer production regions of South Africa. Farmers are familiar with the growing habits of the plant and are confident they will be able to
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Take note of these farming business risks February 2020 Marius Greyling, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to mariusg@mcgacc.co.za What is a risk? A risk is the possibility that an unforeseen, unplanned, un-natural, out of the ordinary, un-expected event may occur and could cause losses of some nature. When you commence with the production
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Look after your equipment and it will look after you February 2020 Liana Stroebel, Grain SA Provincial Co-ordinator, Western Cape. Send an email to liana@grainsa.co.za To be a successful farmer in light of rising input costs and changing weather patterns, it is crucial to focus our efforts on the things that we do in
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The effects of drought on agriculture February 2020 Ikageng Maluleke, Junior Economist, Grain SA. Send an email to Ikageng@grainsa.co.za This article looks at the implications that drought has on the agricultural sector as well as coping strategies that can be put in place to minimise the effects thereof. THE RIPPLE EFFECTS Drought has a
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Water quality and volume important for proper weed control February 2020 Magda du Toit, Corporate Engagement and Communications Manager SA, Bayer. Send an email to magda.dutoit@bayer.com Good weed control is one of the pillars on which sustainable crop production is based on. A practise that is very popular, is to replace the last cultivation
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THE CORNER POST February 2020 Louise Kunz, Pula Imvula contributor. Send an email to louise@infoworks.biz With South Africans being bombarded with negative news, it is very difficult to remain positive about the country. Perhaps we need to focus more on good news, like the website www.sagoodnews.co.za, a news website that highlights the positive developments
Pula/Imvula Grain SA magazine for emerging farmers February 2020 Publication: February 2020 Section: Pula/Imvula
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