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According to Teagasc, weed control in crops – including winter barley, wheat and oilseed rape - are now important.

The trail of destruction continues to sweep across the province as millions of migratory brown locusts feast on Eastern Cape fields.

Battered by drought, Eastern Cape farmers are desperate after aerial spraying was grounded as a locust plague sweeps across the province, leaving a trail of destruction.

Farmers in the Western regions of the Eastern Cape are being urged to act quickly to report and poison huge swarms of destructive brown locusts before they spread eastwards. Deputy president of Agri Eastern Cape Eben du Plessis on Monday said the Eastern Cape, along with the Western and Norther Cape was experiencing a major outbreak of brown locust (Locustana pardalina).