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- 2020 - 2025
Vertical Farms Run by AI and Robots To Solve the Land Crisis
Vertical farms are indoors and can be placed anywhere, making them crucial in a time where farmable land is on decline. Plenty, which is an ag-tech startup in San Francisco co-founded by Nate Storey,…
00:02:43 |
Thu 31 Dec 2020
Clearing land to feed a growing human population will threaten thousands of species
Humankind’s growing need for food is running up against thousands of other species’ need for space.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message
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00:02:17 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Arch-enemies? New research on lions vs hyenas
Lions vs hyenas. The fractious and competitive relationship between lions and spotted hyenas is well-documented and has been observed across Africa wherever the two species are present in the same pl…
00:03:43 |
Fri 25 Dec 2020
Controlled traffic farming to increase root growth of crops
Heavy farm machinery results in soil compaction, which can damage the root growth of crops and reduce crop yields. By using permanent lanes in the fields – known as controlled traffic farming – in th…
00:04:44 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Maybe use a co-bot until the robot is truly autonomous’
There are many ag-robots for sale. Does this mean you shouldn’t buy a new tractor anymore? I don’t think so, robots are not a one-on-one replacement for tractors. Any farmer knows how to use a tracto…
00:02:55 |
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Dung Beetle Wisdom
Dung beetles are the cleaners of Africa! Of all the animals on earth, who wants to be a dung beetle? I guess no-one and yet without them no other animal would have survive as they are our fertilizers…
00:02:12 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
KEEP SOIL ALIVE PROTECT SOIL BIODIVERSITY
World Soil Day (WSD), 5 December is the United Nations Observance that celebrates healthy soils for a food-secure future.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message
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00:02:39 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Orange juice is back on the menu but a global shortfall is expected
Lemon and orange oil prices are expected to rise slightly, simply because they’re by-products of the concentrate process and there’s less concentrate going to be made. -Author: Carolize Jansen--- Sen…
00:05:03 |
Sun 08 Nov 2020
Dutch politicians raise serious questions about situation in South Africa
This comes after the Dutch parliament last year adopted a motion that expresses opposition to expropriation without compensation. In terms of this motion, Minister Blok had to convey the Netherlands’…
00:02:25 |
Sat 31 Oct 2020
Fearless young voice of South Africa's beleagured farming community
As a result of his activism, young farmer Willem Petzer has rocketed to fame, becoming one of the loudest voices representing his community with, for instance, over 100 000 people having viewed his Y…
00:20:11 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Exploring the fascinating world of camouflage in nature
This ability to blend in has the obvious benefit of helping to avoid being eaten or, as is the case with predators such as leopards, to help avoid detection so that they can get closer to their prey.…
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Sun 25 Oct 2020
Milk from plants? That’s next challenge for plant-based meats firm Impossible
Impossible Foods, the company known for making plant-based meat designed to taste, cook and look like real meat, may soon get into milk.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/…
00:02:24 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Urgent help needed after Hertzogville fires- South Africa
The hearts of Saai and its members across South Africa go out to the farmers in the Hertzogville area who have lost livestock, pastures, fences and other infrastructure, income of assets in the destr…
00:01:51 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
Feeding the world sustainable in the Future
It’s a simple question: Will we be able to feed everyone if the population of the planet rises from about 7 billion people today to 9-10 billion in 2050? If you are a student of Thomas Malthus and bu…
00:03:53 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
HOW IMPORTANT IS MARKET FORCES?
Fanie Brink, Independent Agricultural Economist- Already after the creation of the earth when the population increased rapidly there were people who had needs for food and clothing that were noticed …
00:03:53 |
Sun 18 Oct 2020
Carnivores could help farmers
There is a desperate need for farmers to control rodents because they destroy 15% of the crops growing in African fields. The most common solution is to use poison. But this can be expensive and can …
00:04:05 |
Sun 18 Oct 2020
Fertiliser use is fuelling climate-warming nitrous oxide emissions: study
Most of the focus in curbing climate-warming gas emissions has focused on the most abundant, carbon dioxide, and one of the most potent, methane, with the fossil fuel industry under pressure to drast…
00:01:45 |
Sat 17 Oct 2020
What’s behind the locust swarms damaging crops in southern Africa
Then there are localised swarms of the African migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) in southern Africa. Two other locust species – the red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) and the b…
00:04:42 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
Higher summer grains and oilseed prices raise risks for livestock farmers
But this year it is a hard act to follow due to several lingering, significant developments from the 2019/2020 summer crop season. Most notable of these is the persistent upsurge of summer grains and…
00:03:39 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
Covid-inspired Vitamin C boom lifts South Africa citrus exports
South Africa’s agricultural sector has been one of the few bright spots in the economy, posting brisk growth of more than 15% in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 when everything else imploded under th…
00:03:11 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
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