By Strange Sounds A wildfire in Southern California that began Friday evening amid blazing temperatures spread across 4,000 acres overnight. The Apple Fire is…
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By Denene Erasmus About seven or eight years ago, I interviewed a farmer who produced vegetables on a farm in Philippi in Cape Town. The…
Marizka Coetzer The Democratic Alliance (DA) party of South Africa, says Gauteng MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko must urgently intervene and implement measures to…
The National Assembly has agreed to re-establish the multiparty committee to initiate and introduce legislation amending Section 25 of the Constitution. The Committee was first…
Peta Thornycroft, mashonaland central 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 10:44PM Chinese farmers have taken over formerly white-owned farms for the first time, investing millions of pounds into tobacco production.…
GOVERNANCE | JUNE 2, 2020 A letter to the NewsDay Editor has suggested that the government’s recently launched Agriculture projects are merely a strategy to…
by Tyler Durden Mon, 06/01/2020 – 06:39 Veteran traders couldn’t help but laugh when they checked US equity futures last night and saw that – as…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to upend lives throughout America: Now, farmers are being forced to dispose of their crops, even as grocery stores run out…
The latest update from the meatpacking crisis, otherwise known as “crisis in processing,” is that more than 5,000 workers, or about 1% of the entire industry,…
As many homeowners in America are starting to realize, now is a good time to start a home garden since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is starting to disrupt…
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on the American food supply chain, with some companies reducing slaughter capacity. However, many of these companies are…
The negative effects of more than 170 years of monocropping with sugar cane in South Africa are starting to appear. KwaZulu-Natal sugar cane farmer Deon…
Thousands of jobs in the horticulture sector are under threat due to the current prohibition of peat harvesting on all Irish bogs covering a landmass…
A PLAN to build a storage building on a farm will be decided by councillors after neighbours objected to its size saying it would ruin…
EXPORTS AND A STRONG SOYBEAN CRUSH HELP DRIVE PRICES. DES MOINES, Iowa — At midsession Thursday, grain futures are in positive territory with soybeans leading.…
WHEAT FUTURES LOWER OVERNIGHT; ETHANOL PRODUCTION FALLS TO FRESH RECORD LOW. 1. WHEAT FUTURES LOWER OVERNIGHT ON FAVORABLE WEATHER Wheat futures were lower in…
Covid-related slaughterhouse shutdowns in the US are leading to fears of meat shortages and price rises, while farmers are being forced to consider “depopulating” their animals. More…
IOWA IS THE NO. 1 HOG STATE, WITH 24.6 MILLION HEAD, OR 32% OF THE U.S. INVENTORY, AT LATEST COUNT. Farmers across the nation may be…