JUST AN HOUR from Madison, Wisconsin’s capital city, cows roam sloping hillsides and cornstalks line serpentine backroads. Loganville, a town of just 300 people, is farm country.
JUST AN HOUR from Madison, Wisconsin’s capital city, cows roam sloping hillsides and cornstalks line serpentine backroads. Loganville, a town of just 300 people, is farm country.
Having shown great effectiveness during the pandemic, the fresh-produce sector will need to remain flexible, adaptive and open to new ideas as it finds new ways to feed our people effectively, writes Gerhard Stander, Retail and Agriculture Director, CHEP sub-Saharan Africa.
On August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under former President Robert Mugabe's controversial programme of land reform designed to empower landless Black peasants could apply to get it back.
Thirty years ago, the impacts of climate change on species were extremely rare. Today, they’re commonplace.
The key to transforming African agriculture into an engine of economic growth that will have benefits far beyond the farming sector lies in investing in, and making new farming technologies accessible.
The International Grains Council lifted expectations for world grain stocks, reflecting enhanced expectations for both corn and wheat, despite European Union downgrades.