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Cattle Industry’s Annual Sales Highlights – 51st National Sale

The Zimbabwe Herd Book’s annual National Sale is always an unmissable event for cattlemen all over the country. This year, the 51st sale, was as exciting as ever. The buzz was palpable and the air of expectation was contagious. The day did not disappoint. Whether you’re there to check out prices and watch the bidding

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Potato Virus Y Alert

Article by: The Tobacco Research Board, (TRB) There have been several reports of PVY in tobacco field crops around the tobacco growing areas. The occurrence of PVY has been observed sooner than expected in normal seasons. This explosion of reports has come through the Plant Clinic and observations have also been made during visits to

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Tillage

Some Practical Pointers When one starts to talk about tillage, it seems that whoever you are talking to thinks that their programme is the best and everything else is irrelevant or is a fanatic on a particular system such as “ban the plough or disc harrow”. In both cases, common sense is hardly common. There

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Alkaline Hydrolysis

Article by: Stu Taylor A term used to explain the influence of the pH of spray water on various pesticides; pesticides work better in an acid condition and a high pH can even knock out some chemicals, rendering them totally non-effective. Synthetic pyrethroids are particularly prone to this condition and herbicide efficacy is increased quite

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Editorial

I’ve been on the hunt for interesting stories in the agricultural sector. Any Zimbabwean living here knows all about our current power challenges. I, and many others, am pretty sure these outages are here to stay for the foreseeable future, and it is up to us to come up with viable solutions for them. To

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