Tag: climate change

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The changing climate is reshaping risk across the board. As conditions become less predictable, the real question is no longer...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Food loss and waste is one of the silent catastrophes of global agriculture. Although it does not grab headlines like...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Extensive livestock production is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, especially droughts and higher temperatures. It is therefore...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes “It’s like speed dating on steroids.” This tongue-in-cheek remark by Debbie Bester, CEO of Senwes, was perhaps the most accurate...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes The 60th Congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa (GSSA) was recently held in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, drawing around 160...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Climate change poses a serious threat to livestock production in South Africa, with heat stress emerging as one of the...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Plaas Media announces fourth Veeplaas Climate-Smart Ambassador winner This year saw Plaas Media presenting the fourth instalment of its Veeplaas Climate-Smart...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes The theme of the first webinar in CropLife SA’s popular training series for 2025-2026, was “Re-evaluating planting windows in a...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Water is a vital and limited resource necessary for all human activities, utilised by various users such as the agricultural,...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Livestock losses, reduced crop yields, pest and disease outbreaks, and farmworkers’ deaths associated with increased air temperatures as well as...