In n wereld waar onkruidoders heers en alles wat nie gestroop word nie gedood word, word daar kop gekrap. want is vuilgoed nou werklik vuil of is dit dalk net goed?

Regenerative agriculture is the practice of farming in a way that rebuilds what has been lost in our soils. It focuses on promoting soil health and prioritizing biodiversity and ecosystem health. This is done through holistic practices such as crop rotation, livestock integration, redu...

Protecting your crops against the onslaught of pests is crucially important, but the old ways of crop protection just aren’t cutting it anymore, especially if farming regeneratively is your main goal. Enter Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Not just a pest management system, but a way of...

Transparency in food supply systems is becoming increasingly important as consumers demand to know more about where their food comes from and how it is produced.

Van die kopseeer van veldbrande wat deur dusidende boere jaarliks bestry word tot die gerief om van reste op lande ontslae te raak, het boere 'n teenstrydige verhouding met vuur. So waar pas dit in die regeratiewe sisteem...

Potassium is often thought of as being the simplest macronutrient to manage as it cannot be lost as a gas or leached as quickly as nitrogen, and cannot become permanently unavailable to plants like phosphorus...

Phosphorus, like coal, or oil, is a finite resource on earth, and it has been suggested that all known mineral reserves will be depleted within this century. What then, will be the fate of commercial farming, which has come to rely heavily on external sources of...

R2.3 billion (or $127 million) – this is the value of Nitrogen in the atmosphere above every hectare of soil. In fact, something that most of you would remember from your primary school days is that 78% of the earth’s atmosphere consists of nitrogen gas...

Healthy soils are one of our planets largest land-based carbon storehouses. Transforming carbon from air to earth can be done by mimicking what we see in nature. Farmers can play a vital role in unlocking natures secret of carbon storage...

When it comes to water, soils act like batteries, storing water between rain or irrigation events. This allows plants to have access to water during extended periods of no precipitation.

Providing numerous benefits to farmers and the environment. One often overlooked aspect of cover crop management is biomass sampling, a practice that allows farmers to better assess their cover crops' performance and make informed grazing...

In our last entry, we introduced you to earthworms and how they work and benefit the soil. In a healthy, no-till soil, approximately 1.2 million earthworms can be found per hectare. The survival of this mega soil workforce largely depends on how well we steward our agricultural lands. Before we get into discussing...

For some it may seem insignificant, but most would agree that there are few things as exciting as digging up a lump of soil and find it wriggling with earthworms! Whether serving as bait when fishing in the farm dam or recycling nutrients in your soil, the little wrigglers play an important part in our ecosystem. In this blog....

The latest trend that is making its mark in the farming world is the planting of cover crops. Although some benefits are obvious, why would a farmer spend that extra money to plant seeds after, into or in place of a cash crop? Many farmers have some serious questions and doubts...

Strip cropping is an unfamiliar term for most farmers, but early results in South Africa show promising signs of increasing yields and profits when managed correctly. If you are a grain farmer, it might be worth considering...

All Carbon Credits are equal, but some are more equal than others. On the Voluntary Carbon Market, each carbon credit / offset is equal to the next as it represents 1 tonne of CO2 that has been removed from the atmosphere or where its emission has been...

Soil health seems complicated. Many terms like carbon, biome and organisms are thrown around in long-winded and often confusing ways. I'd like to try and simplify it from the perspective of a non-expert.

Agriculture is a very special sector. It is the basis of our society, providing us with the food we eat and with a large portion of the natural materials we use. At the heart of agriculture are farmers. Modern farmers are tasked with producing food sustainably on an unprecedented...