DRIS in Action

Notes from the field.

Crop by crop, season by season, what balanced nutrition looks like when you read the ratios, not just the totals.

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Ripening pink-purple blueberries on the bush in a netted field block

Latest · Crops12 Dec 2025

Blueberry Nutrition Unlocked with DRIS (Part 2)

In Part 1 we uncovered the hidden nutritional challenges inside the crop. Here is what a full season of DRIS monitoring actually revealed.

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Blueberry plants laden with ripening fruit along a mulched row

Crops9 Dec 2025

Blueberry Nutrition Unlocked with DRIS (Part 1)

For growers supplying the export blueberry market, success is not just about yield targets. It is about consistency, quality and balance.

Avocado tree heavy with maturing green fruit against a clear sky

Balanced Soil19 Nov 2025

Avocado Production: Nutrient Balance for Export Success (Part 2)

Part 2 puts nutrient-ratio thinking to work, turning the diagnosis from Part 1 into a program that holds export-grade fruit.

Balanced Soil17 Nov 2025

Avocado Production: Nutrient Balance for Export Success (Part 1)

One year, heavy crops of small fruit; the next, poor flowering and short volumes. Here is how nutrient balance steadies the swing.

Three agronomists inspecting rows of healthy brassica plants in a field under a clear blue sky

Crops7 Nov 2025

Hidden Threats for Brassica Roots: DRIS to the Rescue

Healthy-looking brassicas can hide serious problems below the surface. Rhizoctonia targets the roots, and DRIS catches the imbalance early.

Looking down a row between lush green soybean plants with golden crop residue mulching the soil

Sustainable Farming30 Oct 2025

How Eco-Friendly Farming is Taking Root

Eco-friendly farming in South Africa is no longer a niche concept. Here is how green practices are taking root across the country.

A freshly wrapped round silage bale of chopped feed coming off a baler-wrapper in the field

Sustainable Farming21 Oct 2025

Greener Pastures: The Rise of Sustainable Cattle Feed

South Africa's cattle feed industry is one of the most advanced in the region, and sustainable feed systems are reshaping how it grows.

A hand holding two cereal grain heads side by side, one healthy and green, one paler and weaker

Soil Nutrition26 Sep 2025

Crop Success in South Africa: Timing & Nutrient Management (Part 2)

From soil knowledge to smart action, turning what DRIS reveals about your soil into precisely-timed nutrient decisions.

Hands examining a young pea plant's roots in a freshly dug hole of red-brown soil

Soil Nutrition19 Sep 2025

Soil Health in South Africa: Smarter Farming with DRIS (Part 1)

No two fields are alike. Sandy soil in the Western Cape behaves very differently to Highveld clay, and DRIS reads each one.

Rows of trellised tomato plants with ripening fruit and a red-soil path, mountains in the background

Crops25 Jul 2025

Tomato Monitoring

A side-by-side control vs. DRIS trial in tomatoes, tracking how balanced nutrition shows up in the crop, block by block.

A lifted potato plant showing a cluster of clean tubers on its roots against freshly dug red-brown soil

Crops6 Jun 2025

Nutrient Sweet Spot: A Potato Case Study

Featured in Farmer's Weekly: how reading nutrient ratios, not raising inputs, lifted marketable potato yield by around 1 000 bags per hectare and sharpened tuber quality.

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