Farmers Weekly
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Farmers Weekly Maize has done well in this year’s challenging weather conditions, utilising summer rain for excellent plant growth, reports Neil Groom, manager of forage specialists Grainseed. Spring was wet and maize drilling delayed in many areas well into May since field conditions were too wet to cultivate.
Agric4profits
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Shifting cultivation is a cropping system whereby a piece of farmland under forest is opened up and used for cropping (usually arable crop such as yam, maize,
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Farmers Weekly
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Farmers Weekly Cereals and oilseeds, as well as precision-planted crops such as maize, can be established using a choice of seeding units for Kuhn’s latest folding power harrow, the 4.5m Both are mounted on the harrow’s packer roller to allow for different cultivating depths and have hydraulically adjustable sowing depth.
Agricultural Biodiversity
OCTOBER 22, 2023
A New Methodological Approach to Detect Microcenters and Regions of Maize Genetic Diversity in Different Areas of Lowland South America. Multiple disciplines identify 4 microcenters of maize diversity in the lowlands of South America. Historical Routes for Diversification of Domesticated Chickpea Inferred from Landrace Genomics.
Agricultural Biodiversity
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Maize and precolonial Africa. Maize contributed to slavery. Conventional breeding of Pacific Island staple crops: A paradox. Apulian Autochthonous Olive Germplasm: A Promising Resource to Restore Cultivation in Xylella fastidiosa-Infected Areas. History indeed. What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050?
Agricultural Biodiversity
JUNE 11, 2023
Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Diamonds in the Not-So-Rough: Wild Relative Diversity Hidden in Crop Genomes. The cool alleles you spotted in wild relatives may already be in cultivated genomes, and that can save breeders some time and effort. Ok, maybe 8.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families. The reallocation of collective farms meant that thousands of families were given land to cultivate themselves.
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