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Protecting Grain Bucket Elevators from Dust Explosions

Bucket elevators are essential components in most grain handling facilities. They are also recognized as both a circulation point for combustible dust and a potential ignition source. A...

CONFIGURE YOUR JOSKIN MACHINE IN A FEW CLICKS

nitially available for only a few machine categories, the JOSKIN configurator is now evolving to cover the entire range of products!  One year ago, JOSKIN...

Modernize farming to tame hunger threat

Farmers have been urged to adopt new agricultural technologies to tame rising food shortage. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the AgroFoodpack Expo, the Kenya...

Call for investigation into spiking US fertiliser prices

US farmer group, the Family Farm Action Alliance, has alleged in a letter sent to the US Department of Justice that fertiliser companies in...

AGTECH LEADER NETAFIM TO ACQUIRE DUTCH GREENHOUSE COMPANY GAKON HORTICULTURAL PROJECTS

Global Acquisition by Netafim to Support Food Security and Strengthen Local Greenhouse Industry’s Access to Technology Netafim, the global leader of precision irrigation solutions and agricultural...

WHAT AFRICA’S IRRIGATION RENAISSANCE MEANS FOR FOOD SECURITY

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food,...

Protecting Grain Bucket Elevators from Dust Explosions

Bucket elevators are essential components in most grain handling facilities. They are also recognized as both a circulation point for combustible dust and a potential ignition source. A...

Success with small-scale herb production

Miki and Cathy Clark spent two years exploring the Western Cape in search of the right farm to buy. When they came across Weskuskraal,...

Healthy soil helps ensure 98% packout rate of broccoli on KZN farm

The 40ha of cauliflower and broccoli crops stretches out over the picturesque hillside in Curry’s Post, KwaZulu-Natal. You would be forgiven for thinking the...

Lucerne hay grading: Making SA producers globally competitive

In the past, lucerne was considered a low-value pasture or rotation crop, and was primarily used as a supplement. However, in recent decades, it...

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