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This ability to blend in has the obvious benefit of helping to avoid being eaten or, as is the case with predators such as leopards, to help avoid detection so that they can get closer to their prey.

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Impossible Foods, the company known for making plant-based meat designed to taste, cook and look like real meat, may soon get into milk.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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The hearts of Saai and its members across South Africa go out to the farmers in the Hertzogville area who have lost livestock, pastures, fences and other infrastructure, income of assets in the destructive fires that raged in the area between Christina, Hoopstad, Dealsville and Bultfontein.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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It’s a simple question: Will we be able to feed everyone if the population of the planet rises from about 7 billion people today to 9-10 billion in 2050? If you are a student of Thomas Malthus and buy into hisEssay on the Principles of Population, then you believe this type of population increase will result in famine and poverty.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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Fanie Brink, Independent Agricultural Economist- Already after the creation of the earth when the population increased rapidly there were people who had needs for food and clothing that were noticed by the "entrepreneurs" of that time.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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There is a desperate need for farmers to control rodents because they destroy 15% of the crops growing in African fields. The most common solution is to use poison. But this can be expensive and can kill many other species. On top of this, rodents eventually become resistant.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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Most of the focus in curbing climate-warming gas emissions has focused on the most abundant, carbon dioxide, and one of the most potent, methane, with the fossil fuel industry under pressure to drastically curtail both.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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Then there are localised swarms of the African migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) insouthern Africa. Two other locust species – the red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) and the brown locust (Locustana pardalina) –are knownto have swarmed and caused agricultural damage in southern Africa.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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But this year it is a hard act to follow due to several lingering, significant developments from the 2019/2020 summer crop season. Most notable of these is the persistent upsurge of summer grains and oilseed prices.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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South Africa’s agricultural sector has been one of the few bright spots in the economy, posting brisk growth of more than 15% in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 when everything else imploded under the weight of the pandemic and associated lockdowns.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message

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