Locusts breeding in central Zambia may pose a bigger threat to farmers in southern Africa than the fall armyworm that’s ravaged crops this year, according to an organization that combats the pests.

South Africa is seeking new markets for its grains even after the continent’s biggest corn producer started importing the yellow variety following the nation’s worst drought since 1992 and as ...

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s Agricultural Business Chamber raised its forecast for the country’s corn exports as local consumers use more low-cost grain imported from South America and free up ...

(Bloomberg) -- South African corn exports will probably drop 58% this marketing season, potentially resulting in shortages in neighboring states that traditionally rely on the nation during droughts, ...

May 26 (Reuters) - South Africa hopes its new price edge over major global corn producers will help it secure a share of China's huge grain market, a farmer's union has said. Africa's top corn ...

South Africa’s Agricultural Business Chamber has raised its forecast for the country’s corn exports for the year ending April 2025 to 1.9 million tons. The increase, from a previous estimate of 1.85 ...

JOHANNESBURG - While most of the world sits on a generous corn stockpile, the situation for South Africa is vastly different. The country faces one of the worst corn harvests ever on the back of a ...

South African farmers probably produced the second-biggest corn crop on record in 2025 as the country experienced good rains earlier in the year. Commercial growers likely harvested 16.4 million tons ...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Following are selected highlights from a report issued by a U.S. Department of Agriculture attache in Pretoria: Post estimates that South Africa increased commercial corn planting ...

URBANA, Ill. — When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the corn breeder knew he had stumbled on something ...