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      • Agriculture in the Provinces
      • Labour and agriculture
      • Organised Agriculture
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      • Animal improvement and breeders
      • Animal husbandry
      • Aquaculture
      • Beef Cattle Farming
      • Beekeeping
      • Dairy cattle farming
      • Dairy (goats and sheep)
      • Donkeys
      • Gamebirds and other poultry
      • Horses – the equine industry
      • Indigenous and locally developed breeds
      • Meat goats
      • Mohair (goats)
      • Mutton and lamb (sheep)
      • Ostriches
      • Pork and Pig Farming
      • Rabbits
      • Poultry and Chicken Farming
      • Speciality fibre production
      • Wildlife ranching
      • Wool (sheep)
    • Services and Technologies
      • Agricultural media & ICT
      • Aquaponics
      • Biotechnology and plant breeding
      • Conservation Agriculture
      • Consultants
      • Digital Agriculture
      • Drones
      • Fertigation
      • Food safety and traceability
      • Hydroponics and undercover growing
      • Laboratories and Agriculture
      • Legal aid and legislation
      • Mapping
      • Organic farming
      • Permaculture
      • Precision farming
      • Precision livestock farming (PLF)
      • Research and development
    • Marketing & Finance
      • Agribusiness
      • Agricultural shows and events
      • Co-operatives
      • Commodity trading
      • Exporting
      • Finance for new farmers and SMMEs
      • Fresh Produce Markets
      • Livestock auctions
      • Marketing
      • Providers of financial services
      • Risk management and insurance
      • Supply Chain Management
    • Adding Value
      • Abattoirs and the meat industry
      • Agro-processing
      • Baking
      • Canning and preserving
      • Craft Brewing
      • Dairy processing
      • Dried fruit
      • Essential oils
      • Fruit and vegetable juices
      • Hides, skins and leather
      • Hunting
      • Milling
      • Small and micro milling
      • Tourism and agriculture
      • Wood, pulp and paper
    • Natural Resource Management
      • Biodiversity and ecosystem services
      • Birds and farming
      • Conservancies and farming
      • Environmental legislation
      • Fire management
      • Invasive alien species (IAS)
      • LandCare
      • Rangeland (veld)
      • Soils
      • Waste management
      • Weather and climate
      • Wetlands
      • Wildlife on farms
    • Farming Inputs
      • Animal feeds
      • Animal health
      • Biocontrol
      • Chemicals in agriculture
      • Compost and organic fertiliser
      • Crop protection
      • Earthworms and vermicompost
      • Fertiliser
      • Fuels and lubricants
      • Seeds and seedlings
      • Speciality fertilisers
    • Forestry and Industrial Crops
      • Bamboo Farming
      • Cannabis
      • Cassava
      • Chicory
      • Coffee
      • Cotton
      • Fibre crops
      • Forestry
      • Herbs and spices
      • Honeybush
      • Indigenous medicinal plants
      • Moringa
      • Rooibos (redbush)
      • Sugarcane
      • Tobacco
      • Wine and wine grapes
    • Horticulture
      • Berries and exotic fruit
      • Citrus Fruit
      • Cut flowers
      • Deciduous fruit
      • Floriculture and nursery crops
      • Fruit – general fruit chapter
      • Indigenous food crops
      • Macadamia nuts
      • Mushrooms and truffles
      • Olives
      • Subtropical fruit
      • Table grapes
      • Tree nuts
      • Vegetables
    • Agronomy
      • Barley
      • Canola (rapeseed)
      • Dry beans
      • Fodder crops
      • Groundnuts (peanuts)
      • Maize (corn)
      • Potatoes
      • Sorghum
      • Soybeans
      • Sunflower
      • Wheat
    • Mechanisation
      • Animal traction: the use of draught animal power
      • Forklifts, loaders and light industrial machines
      • Implements
      • Pumps and generators
      • Spare parts and fleet maintenance
      • Tractors, combines and balers
      • Trailers
      • Trucks and heavy machinery
      • Tyres
      • Vehicles – other
    • Farm Infrastructure
      • Boreholes and windmills
      • Building supplies and structures
      • Fencing
      • General farm equipment
      • Grain storage and handling
      • Irrigation
      • Natural building
      • Packaging and handling systems
      • Rainwater harvesting
      • Water storage
    • Issues Here and Beyond Our Borders
      • AgriBEE
      • Biosecurity
      • Climate change and global warming
      • Emerging farmer support
      • Energy
      • Fisheries and the ocean economy
      • Food security
      • HIV and AIDS
      • Renewable and alternative energy
      • Rural Crime and Farm Safety
      • The Urban Question
      • Water
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      • Agricultural education and training
      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 1)
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Category: Blog

3D printed food: yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers

Would you eat food that was printed by a machine?

“It’s Now or Never” – Red Meat Industry Demands Urgent Action at FMD Indaba

A call to build a new foundation for biosecurity, trade, and lasting prosperity

Call for urgent overhaul of disease control framework amid ongoing FMD challenges

A Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Indaba is happening in the wake of outbreaks of the disease.

Farmers demand government support for agroecology

The learning opportunities on offer to others, especially youth, in growing the agroecology movement.

Navigating the legal landscape of AgriTech

Why a strategic legal approach needs to be considered when choosing to adopt and contract for AgriTech.

Promoting National Food Security. Building sustainable agricultural sourcing through farmer support

Tiger Brands takes delivery of season’s first small white beans crop for KOO Baked Beans from emerging farmers

Decades of South African research reveal key strategies to reduce water contamination in fruit and veg

How you can determine whether the water you use for fresh produce is of good quality …

Department of Agriculture response to 30% tariffs

Agricultural goods impacted are mainly citrus, grapes, wine, and nuts, amongst other products.

How Agri-tech is powering South Africa’s cannabis boom

As South Africa positions itself as a serious player in the global cannabis market, embracing the right technology will be a critical differentiator.

Decades of South African research reveal key strategies to reduce water contamination in fruit and veg

Even if water looks clean, it can contain hidden contaminants that compromise food safety.

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