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The use of drones in future-forward farming

Posted on18 Feb 2018

Agricultural producers are facing many challenges to ensure sustainable food production for an ever-growing population. To ensure we attend to the daily needs of a projected nine billion people by...

The importance of strategic planning in farm management

Posted on18 Feb 2018

To be successful in farming, the modern farmer needs to grab both opportunities and challenges with the same enthusiasm, thereby adapting swiftly to the changes to the immediate and global...

Seisoene in Kleinveeproduksie

Posted on18 Feb 2018

Outeur: Giepie Calldo, Bestuurder: Tegnies, RFID Experts Africa Vrywilliger mede-werker van PERITUM Agri Instituut Diere het seisoene van groei. Die sukses van kleinveeboerdery berus daarop dat kritiese bestuurspraktyke toegepas word...

Lean and Mean Teams in Farm Enterprises

Posted on08 Feb 2018

Just imagine… having a team on your farm, all who are fully involved in, and enthusiastic about his or her work; caring about the future of the farm and willing...

Employment of Foreign Nationals on Farms in South Africa

Posted on08 Feb 2018

Employment of Foreign Nationals on Farms in South Africa Agriculture in South Africa is a labour intensive activity and the commercial agricultural sector employs approximately 821 967 million people; of...

Farm infrastructure and Resource planning

Posted on17 Jan 2018

Farm planning, is a process to allocate the scare resources of the farm to organize the farm production in such a way as to increase both the resource use efficiency...

Gear up for a more sustainable farming future

Posted on17 May 2014

To be successful in farming, the modern farmer needs to adapt swiftly, not only to the ever-changing larger Agri-economic environment, but also to rapid and severe changes in the physical...

The Protein Ruminant Puzzle

Posted on26 Apr 2014

Author: Prof Izak Groenewald Livestock producers in South Africa are familiar with the traditional seasonality in ambient temperatures, distribution of rainfall and the effect thereof on the growth pattern and...