Egg farmer scoops Western Cape Young Farmer of the Year award
Johan van der Schyff, an egg farmer from Plettenberg Bay, has been named as the Western Cape Young Farmer of the Year at a recent function held at Eensgezind, just...
Agri SA fights back against Mantashe’s fracking appeal
National agricultural union Agri SA has assured its members and the general public that it will continue its fight to have the potential exploration for and mining of South Africa’s...
€100 million in Brexit compensation for Irish beef farmers
Beef farmers in Ireland will be receiving €100 million (about R1,62 billion) in aid to compensate them for falling beef prices due to Brexit-related uncertainties, changes to the value of...
Con Court appeal on the cards in Vrede Dairy report case
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane intends appealing the High Court ruling that declared the report into the Vrede Dairy Project “unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid”.
Drought devastates Namibia in first quarter of 2019
The devastating effect of the drought in Namibia is clearly illustrated in the Namibia Agricultural Union’s (NAU) first quarter review for 2019.
32 cows for world’s first floating farm
Thirty-two cows recently boarded the world’s first floating farm in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Concern about South Africa’s rising unemployment rate
South Africa’s unemployment rate increased to the highest level since the third quarter of 2017, according to Statistics South Africa.
‘Traditional land ownership must be sorted out’
Confusion about the powers and functions of South Africa’s traditional leaders and government ownership of communal land came to the fore at a recent panel discussion between agricultural role players.
EU olive industry under threat from killer pathogen
The deadly Xylella pathogen poses a "very serious threat" to the EU's olive industry, with countries in southern Europe most at risk.
Combine agri and land departments, says Purchase
To improve service delivery and overall performance by the departments of Agriculture and Rural Development and Land Reform, President Cyril Ramaphosa should consider merging these two departments, says Dr John...
Traceability system on track, says SA Feedlot Association
Implementing a functional national identification and traceability system for the livestock sector would take about 10 years and cost approximately R200 million, according to Dewald Olivier, executive officer of the...
SA cannot afford ‘ostrich politics’ with land reform
Although land and land reform played a lesser role than expected in the recent election, these matters needed to be resolved urgently, according to Theo Venter, a political analyst from...
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