No tilling, no chemicals in S.African farmer's revolution

Balfour, South Africa (AFP) Oct 28, 2021

It's spring in South Africa, and Danie Bester's tillers are rusting in a corner of his farm. Freshly-turned earth stretches for miles on other farms as his neighbours prepare their fields. "I'm still playing golf," said 37-year-old Bester. He might sound like Aesop's grasshopper, wasting away the spring days while the ants next door work. But he's actually made a radical decision