Oilseeds Focus
Agricultural challenges continue to grow in the wake of global climate, social and economic changes. For producers and processors of oilseeds to remain profitable, access to research and other information is crucial. Oilseeds Focus is dedicated to keeping all role-players in the oilseeds value chain informed of the latest research, market movements and news relating to this group of lucrative agricultural products.
The March 2024 issue of Oilseeds Focus contains relevant articles with comprehensive insights into news and market reports, industry events and research.
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Articles to look forward to in this issue:
- Understanding disease intensity.
- Canola research in the spotlight.
- Climate change and agriculture.
- Swathing or direct combining of canola.
- Sunflower seedling development.
- Crop pests that collude with weeds.
- Gypsum and calcium: Solutions to sodic soils.
- Zero waste technology in soya bean processing.
- Soya bean and sunflower markets update.
- Peanuts as functional food: A review.
- Rural crime: Determining the extent of SAPS duties.
- Illegal foreigners in your employment.
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Small changes, big rewards in modern sunflower production
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Sunflower is one of the major row crops cultivated in South Africa.
Modern sunflower production requires a good balance...
Taxonomy and life cycles matter when managing Sclerotinia sclerotiorum diseases
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Diagnosing soya bean stem rot and sunflower head rot, caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is relatively simple due to characteristic...
Efficiency of soya bean meal replacement by rapeseed meal and/or canola...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Researchers have been invested in finding solutions for poultry feeding which support high layer performance at lower feeding costs....
Why and how do we dry grain?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
When grain is harvested it is in the best condition it will ever be. From harvesting onwards, it can...
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Applications for funding for oilseed research now open
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
The Oil and Protein Seeds Development Trust (OPDT) was registered on 18 September 1997. The trust’s main objective to...
Effect of seed-applied technologies on groundnut production
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Seed-applied technologies represent a revolution in farming.
Rhizobium inoculants are used on legumes such as groundnuts and soya beans...
Impact of harmful Palmer amaranth on maize, cotton, soya bean and...
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Since Palmer amaranth was first discovered in the Douglas district in the Northern Cape early in 2018, the SAHRI...
Determining animal feed demand in the grain and oilseeds markets
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
One of the major role-players within the demand spectrum of the grain and oilseeds markets, is the animal feed...
Maintaining water quality for agricultural use
South Africa is considered a water-scarce country. The ever-increasing demand for water, combined with dry and unfavourable climate conditions, exert pressure on available water...
Processing full-fat soya beans for animal consumption
Soya beans, with their high protein (38 to 42%) and rich oil (18 to 22%) content, have the potential to substantially benefit the feed...
Fall armyworm: How a climate model can help
The
fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), which originates from South
America, is an invasive alien insect known for causing devastation in many a
cropland. This tropical or subtropical...
Market segmentation of edible vegetable oils
There are many types of vegetable oils suitable for human consumption. These oils are usually called edible oils and can be divided into two...
Application of CRISPR technology in agriculture
The new gene editing technology known as CRISPR (pronounced ‘crisper’ and short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has been making headlines in...
Factors influencing seed set and grain fill in sunflower
Poor seed set and
grain fill are two components in sunflower cultivation that can be problematic
from time to time. This article focuses briefly on a...
