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A veld fire is currently burning between Vrede and Memel in the eastern Free State. The fire started on 9 October on a farm near the Vrede-Volksrust road, according to the CEO of the Free State Umbrella Fire Association, Thinus Steenkamp.

The South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SAHGCA) has dishonourably expelled André Klopper (21) from the association for poaching.

Because a growing world population has put pressure on the demand for food, prices will rise moderately over the next 40 years, says Kuben Naidoo (Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus’s advisor), speaking at the Agri SA Congress today.

There’s a simple solution to SA’s food insecurity that doesn’t require international intervention.

The proposed buyout of agri services and industrial food processing group Afgri by an international consortium has alarmed the African Farmers Union (Afasa), which has called on the ministers of trade and industry and agriculture, rural development and land reform to step in and prevent the deal.

Every year World Egg Day is celebrated on the second Friday in October to raise awareness of the great benefits of eggs.

A large lineup of new tractors is always a feature of the Nedbank Eston Show. This year, almost 50 models were on display.

Two suspects, Charles Marais (40) and Martinus Groenewalt (35), accused of stock theft amounting to R807 000, are expected to appear in the Brits Magistrates’ Court on Monday 7 October 2013 according to SAPS spokesperson, colonel Sabata Mokgwabone.

A fire, caused by lightning in the Thomas River area between Cathcart and Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape recently, claimed the life of a farm worker and severely injured another.

Normal weather patterns have been predicted for the summer cycle, but a dry spell looms over the next five years.

Facebook and other forms of social media are about more than just idle chat, says Greg Miles.

Freight logistics company Grindrod recently bought a sizeable chunk of NWK for R228 million. In doing so, it took up the 19,8% stake jointly owned by Zeder Investments and Thembeka Capital, and topped it up to 20% by way of 0,2% purchased from NWK itself.

DAFF acknowledges and celebrates the achievements of South African female farmers.

Government claims to be acting in the interests of the rural poor to redress “a great historical wrong”, but land reform of the kind that it proposes is “essentially a charade”, said Dr Anthea Jeffery of the SA Institute of Race Relations

The retail prices of all grades of petrol, the wholesale prices of both grades of diesel and illuminating paraffin and the maximum retail prices of LPGas will be adjusted with effect from Wednesday, 2 October 2013.

October is World Hunger Action Month, when Stop Hunger Now raises public awareness around the issue of world hunger.

After months of delays, the new poultry tariffs were gazetted on 30 September, and there seems to be consensus that the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) has taken into account the needs of consumers, local industry and importers.

Duties on imported chicken have been raised to help the ‘distressed’ local industry and halt job losses, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said at a press conference in Pretoria.

AfriForum will ask the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues to call for the prioritisation of farm murders in November.

There were at least 600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of technically-recoverable shale gas in the Karoo, but getting it out through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) could have dire consequences for the Karoo’s groundwater supply.