• Is Farming ready for robot tractors?
• Field to be farmed exclusively by robots
• Tackle Herbicide-Resistant Weeds with Cereal Rye
• What is it about this soil that protects plants from devastating disease?
• Can we feed growing global population sustainably? With or without GMOs?
• Photos and CAWC Management Team

Bewaringslandbou BLWK – No 48

• Forty per cent straight cut canola by 2020?
  • First-of-kind study suggests cover crop mixtures increase agroecosystem services
  • MIT Researchers Discover a Way to Make Pesticides
  • This Gadget Could Reduce Pesticide Use By Up To 99%
  • To Harvest Stover Or Not: Is It Worth It?
  • Our Best Shot at Cooling the Planet Might be Right Under our Feet.

• Farm income down, expenses up
  • 8 Answers to common questions about grazing cover crops
  • Cover Crops Prove Profitable in 2015
  • Discovered
  • Dirt First
  • The contentious nature of soil organic matter.
  

• CAWC “Walk-and-Talk” Langgewens
• Costs And Benefits Of Cover Crops: Cereal Rye by Agronomy Topics

• Swellendam Groentoer – 8 Junie
• BLWK “Jack Human” Bewaringslandbou Week 2016
• Increasing awareness about the importance of soil health has led to a perplexing question: how do you measure soil health?
• 12 tips to make no-till a success
• A roadmap to a climate change resilient agricultural sector in the Western Cape

• Planterdag – 20 April
• Will we allow soil carbon to feed our needs?

Lawmakers backing hemp production try to separate it from pot in public’s eye
• Terugvoer na die bestuursvergadering
• Bewaringslandbou Wes-Kaap gaan op toer.

• Farming forward for Climate change
• The newly established soil health support centre
• Finding moisture in dry soil
  Legume has the potential to turn sandy soils into productive land
• 5 ways to measure soil health
• Global nitrogen footprint mapped for the first time
• New guidelines reflect benefits of no-till farming
• Antwoord lê in die grond
• Summer cover crops in the Southern Cape 2015/16
• Winter cover crops in the Southern Cape

• What is genome editing?
• Soil Carbon – Can it Save Agriculture’s Bacon?
• Watter verskil stoppelbewaring kan maak in stormsterk winde
• Voorlopige resultate vanuit die wisselboustelsel navorsingsprogram

• Genetically modified crops: Time to move on from theological dispute
• Carbon that counts
• Using Cover Crops to Improve Soil and Water Quality

• Soil carbon – can it save agriculture’s bacon?
• Understanding plant-soil interaction could lead to new ways to combat weeds
• Bewaringslandbou Konferensie week—2015
• BLWK Bestuursvergaderingterugvoer

• Greg Butler : Being 5 years ahead
  R&D Manager SANTFA
• Tom Robinson : My CA story
  Farmer and President of SANTFA
• Prof. Karin Jacobs : Biodiversity in the soil
  Universiteit van Stellenbosch
• Hoppies Uys : My experience with cover crops
• Farmer, Swellendam, Southern Cape

• Groentoer Tygerhoek Terugvoer
• SOS: Red ons Grond

• LANDCARE & Conservation Agriculture Western Cape

• SOS: RED ONS GROND
• LANDCARE & Conservation Agriculture Western Cape

• 30 Years of No-Tilling Yields Healthier Soils, Better Planting
• Meganiese versteuring van gronde in bewaringsboerdery – my ervaring (Charl van Rooyen)

• Is 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change’s Hottest Topic?
• New No-till Transplanter
• A reality check on research in agriculture
• Foto’s van die 2015 Swartland Bruintoer

• Economics of No-till farming. Experiences from Latin America.
• We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
• Mitigating cliamte change: Conservation Agriculture Stores Soil Carbon

• Sense and nonsense in conservation agriculture: principles, pragmatism and productivity in Australian mixed farming sytems
• Conservation agriculture: A dynamic approach for continuing biomass production under rain-fed conditions of the Mediterranean climate

• A comparison of environmental indicators
• High biomass yielding winter cover crops can improve phosphorus availability in soil
• Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis
• The role of conservation agriculture in sustainable agriculture

• New guidelines reflect benefits of no-till farming
• Glyphosate Effects  in Glyphosate-Resistant Crops
• Science and Technology Exchange trip to the Western Cape, Province of South Africa
• Diversity is King

• Riversdal Boeredag (Uitkyk Plaas) : Program
• A Strategy to Improve Soil Health in a Midwest Corn-Soybean Cropping System
• Conservation Agriculture: World Perspectives – Australia
• Biodiversity Advocates for Conservation Agriculture
• Conservation Agriculture in Argentina: Development and Perspectives Agricultural Sustainable Production System
• Sustainable Intensification and Conservation Agriculture
• Conservation Agriculture – Cropping systems: Summation of CA farm visits in America
• Groentoer Langgewens

• Informing Policy Development for Sustainable and Productive Food Production Systems in Dry Areas
• BLWK Simposium en Expo 2014 : 5 tot 7 Augustus

• Making Better Fertiliser Decisions for Cropping Systems in Australia: an overview
• Using Conservation Agriculture to improve water use efficiency in wheat crops on the Branson farm in South Australia
• FOTO beeld van dekgewas is Riversdal proef—geplant met skyfplanter

• Research reveals true value of cover crops to farmers, environment
• Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. From Chapter 11. Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
• Conservation agriculture: A dynamic approach for continuing biomass production under rain-fed conditions of the Mediterranean climate
• BLWK Simposium en Expo 2014 : 5 tot 7 Augustus

• Bewaringslandbou Wes-Kaap Konferensie 2013: Video materiaal nou beskikbaar
• Why do we need to standardize no-tillage research?
• Wheat yield comparison of different short rotation crop and crop/pasture systems at langgewens in the swartland
• The effect of soil cover on medicago pasture reestablishment and production under ca practises in rain-fed conditions

• Carbon footprint of crop production due to shift from conventional to Conservation Agriculture
• Effects of Conservation Agriculture and manure application on maize grain yield and soil organic carbon: a comparative analysis
• Soil organic carbon accumulation in Conservation Agriculture: a review of evidence

• The Rise of Superweeds—and What to Do About It
• One weird trick to fix farms forever
• Monsanto Going Green: Using Bacteria and Fungi to Increase Crop Yields and Lower Inputs

• Mainstreaming Conservation Agriculture: challenges to adoption, institutions and policy
• Disc seeders in conservation agriculture: An Australian survey
• Things to think about when the harvest is in the silo
• Stand van Bewaringslandbou in die Wes-kaap

• Imports of US wheat paused after GM find
• Sustainable agriculture in Carbon arithmetics: LIFE+Agricarbon
• Conservation agriculture in the dry Mediterranean climate
• Swartland “Groentoer”  24 Julie 2013

• Nuus uit Wes-Australië
• Van toeka tot nou : ‘n Reis van volhoubaarheid
• Factors behind the Quick Spread of CA in South America
• Foto’s van die onlangse bruintoer wat op De Vlei (Caledon) gehou is

• The effect of long term conservation tillage and crop-rotation practices on soil organic carbon (Western Cape, RSA)

• Uncovering the real dirt on No-Till
• Adoption of no-till farming practices in Australian grain growing regions

• Conservation Agriculture : The Suurbraak Grain Farmer’s Cooperative
• Stop worrying; start growing : Snippet from article in EMBO reports. Risk research on GM crops is a dead parrot: it is time to start reaping the benefits of GM
• Do No-Till Systems require more chemicals?