Agriculture company Monsanto has shelled out R11-million to acquire two of the “most technologically advanced” precision maize seed planters – unique to South Africa – to facilitate more effective, ...

German firm Agrokraft has been building cultivation equipment and drills in Cologne for the past 15 years and has recently introduced a one-pass strip-till maize planter. See also: How a Sussex grower ...

Tribune News Service Moga, February 28 Days after the Finance Commission announced a grant of Rs 350 crore to Punjab for crop diversification, the Department of Agriculture has begun wooing farmers to ...

Increasing planting density has had a key role in boosting yields of maize (corn). However, optimal plant architecture is a prerequisite for adapting maize to dense planting. In general, more-upright ...

Company Announcement - A unique and revolutionary eight-row precision planter, the first of its kind in South Africa, has been imported by Monsanto to accelerate the planting of maize yield trials and ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...