planting
Vegetable planting guide Part 9: Sunflowers
The sunflower, Helianthus annus L., is one of the few crop species that can be traced back to North America, despite reports that it originated in the Fertile Crescent, Asia, or in South or Central America. Most likely, it was used as a "camp flower" by several western Native[...]
Xfarm’s NTX disc planter: Paragon of perfect planting
In 1998, Xfarm totally changed the cultivation of cereal crops in the South and Western Cape with the launch of a customised planter for conservation farmers. Today, eighteen years later, this concept of placing seed precisely with only one movement through the field, is still the only way for[...]