{"id":1,"date":"2025-03-21T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hort.thepeaksfoundation.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:54:42","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Challenges and Advances in Crop Irrigation across South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SASHS organized a special session at the Combined Congress in 2025 on Challenges and Advances in Crop Irrigation across South Africa. Invited speakers addressed current advances in irrigation and irrigation during drought and water scarcity. Invited speakers included Karen van der Westhuizen, Stephan Schoeman, Emma Crakeek and Stephanie Midgley. The day concluded with a visit to Westfalia Fruit Estate, where the participants were shown avocado orchards under low flow drip and conventional drip.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul style=\"--columns: 3;--space: 0px;--min-width: 0px\" class=\"filebird-block-filebird-gallery wp-block-gallery blocks-gallery-grid columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-filebird-block-filebird-gallery\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1621\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6899 (1)-min\" class=\"wp-image-40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min-1024x865.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6899-1-min-1536x1297.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1349\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6898-min\" class=\"wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6898-min-1536x1079.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1893\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6897-min\" class=\"wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min.jpg 1893w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min-1010x1024.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6897-min-1514x1536.jpg 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1893px) 100vw, 1893px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5724-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5724-min\" class=\"wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5724-min.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5724-min-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5724-min-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5724-min-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5721-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5721-min\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5721-min.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5721-min-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5721-min-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5721-min-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5715-min\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5715-min-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASHS organized a special session at the Combined Congress in 2025 on Challenges and Advances in Crop Irrigation across South Africa. Invited speakers addressed current advances in irrigation and irrigation during drought and water scarcity. Invited speakers included Karen van der Westhuizen, Stephan Schoeman, Emma Crakeek and Stephanie Midgley. The day concluded with a visit &#8230; <a title=\"Challenges and Advances in Crop Irrigation across South Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/?p=1\" aria-label=\"Read more about Challenges and Advances in Crop Irrigation across South Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sashs.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}