The price for US yellow Gulf corn declined by 3.3% this week. The USDA crop progress report indicated that a larger than expected number of corn acres have been planted and that 94% of the corn crop has emerged.

In the category of “what’s old is new again,” we recently read a Sustainable Agricultural Research & Education technical bulletin on cover crops.

Horrendously wet weather in 2019 already has cut deeply into U.S. corn and soybean production either by lost acreage or by very late planting. The potential production shortfall is already a significant number, but a new study by World Weather, Inc. points toward a possibly higher-than-usual potential for early-season frost and freezes this autumn.

South Africa's 2019 maize output expected to shrink by 13%-

Today, agriculture is a major contributor to challenges facing our environment: land degradation, aquifer depletion, nitrogen runoff and greenhouse gas emissions, to name a few.

The dry weather has left its mark in Europe this year. There is little demand for potatoes on the market, although it is now starting to recover.

South African commercial and smallholder farmers are exposed to an environment that is not always conducive to crop production

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool available for free in a smartphone app can predict near-term crop productivity for farmers in Africa.

By employing so-called deep-learning systems for crop recognition, machines that can combat weeds site-specifically with a minimum of labour and/or chemicals are getting ever closer.

Farmers in Southern Africa should from this year, adapt and plant drought-resistant crops, concentrate on short season varieties and rear drought-tolerant livestock breeds as the frequency of droughts intensifies.

Alltech Crop Science (ACS) recognises that a healthy and living soil is fundamental for plants to reach their fullest genetic potential and for successful crop production.

There is clear evidence that agriculture in South Africa has evolved to take natural climate variation into account

Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion.

There is a new way of testing milled maize that can pick the dangerous aflatoxin contamination and improve food safety, a study says.

My last column two weeks ago painted a bleak picture of SA’s 2019/2020 agricultural outlook, highlighting prospects of drought in some regions of the country. Lately, conditions have improved notably, and farmers managed to plant the area they intended.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and this rings true in Zimbabwe where the government is reformulating policy.

Looking at the current maize conditions, the country may have an above average crop

Maize market trends- The jury is still out when it comes to the impact the coronavirus outbreak in China will have on SA agricultural commodities.

California company Arable tries to make weather, crop, and soil data more accessible and actionable.

South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee releases its first estimate of the country’s 2019/20 summer crop harvest today