The Good Design® international jury panel of design professionals, leading industry specialists, design journalists and critics awarded the Methane Powered Concept Tractor, which reimagines tractor design, reveals a connected future and pioneering alternative fuel technology in agriculture.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has elected the New Holland IntelliSense™ combine setting system and the Intelligent Trailer Brake System recipients of the 2019 AE50 Awards.
During the 2017/18 growing season, a new and damaging disease of squash was observed in several commercial plantations in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Soft, water-soaked lesions, 3 to 6cm in diameter, were present on the rind of fruits . Many fruits were rotting inside . A total of 50 to 80% of fruits were affected per field.
A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Animal Feed Manufacturers Association (AFMA) to the value of R50 million for the establishment of a feed mill research facility was officially signed on 11 December 2018.
The African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Food Security was recently launched at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Future Africa campus. The theme of the launch was ‘The future of food in Africa’.
Rooibos, which is exclusively farmed in the Cederberg and Sandveld areas of the Western Cape of South Africa is fast becoming one of the most attractive agricultural products to invest in.
