Selling the farm

It might be difficult to think of selling your farm, but now’s the time to start preparing for that day.
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Rethinking the Swedish model

Sweden’s agricultural sector is largely based on environmental principles and organic farming. This has posed many challenges for Swedish farmers, who are losing market share to cheaper imports. Lindi van Rooyen spoke to Helena Jonsson, president of the Federation of Swedish Farmers, about overcoming these challenges.
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Marlow Agricultural High School bears fruit

One of the country’s leading agricultural schools Marlow, near Cradock in Eastern Cape, was founded in 1931 – with nine students – to support the traditional wool and mohair industries of the Karoo. The school offers a unique education on a 3 300ha commercial farm on the banks of the Great Fish River. Mike Burgess reports.
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Bad news is good news

Farmers have to take animal welfare, consumer demands and environmental factors into account in their farming systems. Issue date : 09 October 2009
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Heuningkrans Stud: a South African legacy

In only 32 years Smithfield Merino farmer Eddie Prinsloo has increased the ewe crop on Heuningkrans Stud from 500 to about 2 000, and in February this year at its sale, Heuningkrans achieved an average price per ram of R7 300 - the highest average price ever achieved by a single Merino breeder in South Africa. Gavin Isted writes.
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