Satisfying your neighbors at the expense of your family
I am very much disappointed to hear that our broiler industry experiences such a stiff competition from foreign producers due to the export and import policies of our country.
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Turning things around with Savannah goats
As many extensive farmers in the Karoo know, raising lambs successfully can be an enormous challenge. Farmer Flippie Loock from the Middelburg district knew he had to find an alternative, so eight years ago he started farming with Savannah goats. Heather Dugmore visited him.
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SAMGA resists plans for change
In what has been described as a tragic day for the industry, Louw Retief, mohair farmer and long-time member of the executive committee of the SA Mohair Growers Association (SAMGA), summarily resigned from the committee to express his anger and disappointment over planned restructuring.
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Nkwinti signs off Green Paper
The long-awaited Green Paper on land reform has been signed off by Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti.
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Von Abo appeal denied
Free State farmer Crawford von Abo has finally lost his ongoing battle with the South African government for failing to protect him, as a South African citizen, from Zimbabwe's land reform policy.
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'I've always wanted to farm for myself'
Dolf du Bruyn, a Grain SA 2010 Grain Producer of the Year finalist, only started farming on his own about 13 years ago. He has since become one of the largest landowners on the Sand/Vet irrigation scheme near Bultfontein. Starting off growing vegetables on a leased plot, he now plants maize, wheat and groundnuts on 800ha irrigated and 3 300ha rainfed land.
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R200 million corruption in Limpopo
In the aftermath of hearings into R200 million worth of shady business deals at the Limpopo agriculture department, Scopa has lost confidence in HOD Bigman Maloa and is demanding harsh disciplinary action.
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R200 million corruption in Limpopo
In the aftermath of hearings into R200 million worth of shady business deals at the Limpopo agriculture department, Scopa has lost confidence in HOD Bigman Maloa and is demanding harsh disciplinary action.
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Kind stranger comes to black farmer's rescue
An anonymous donor has offered to pay for the upgrading of emerging farmer Dunlop Lembethe's irrigation system, boldly going where the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture in Greytown refused to go. Lembethe, who was featured in Farmers Weekly on 24 April, is successfully farming cabbage, tomatoes, butternut and spinach on his 10ha farm, as well as a sprinkling of pecan nut trees.
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