South Africa

Pork puzzles, questionnaires and theory notes are just some of the strategies used by the Premier Pork Producers Association to spread information about pork products among school-going children.

Grain SA chairperson Louw Steytler announced at the Free State Agriculture congress that Grain SA had donated R150 000 towards the Free State Agriculture court case against the South African government regarding the disintegration of the border infrastructure between the Free State and Lesotho.

Commercial agriculture is in favour of orderly land reform and will diligently help to establish new black farmers, according to Free State Agriculture president Dan Kriek.

Concerted efforts by KwaZulu-Natal police units from mid- to end-July resulted in a significant number of recoveries of stolen livestock as well as in the arrests of a number of suspected stock thieves.

More than 80% of the 2014/2015 white maize harvest had been delivered so far this year.

The Blood Lions documentary crew recently hosted a media screening in Johannesburg. This film is part of a global campaign to bring an end to predator breeding and canned hunting industries.

Free State Agriculture (FSA) condemns the latest farm attack in the province in the strongest terms, according to Tommie Esterhuyse, FSA’s Law and Order Committee chairperson.

US dentist Walter Palmer has come under harsh criticism from international animal rights activists following his involvement in the killing of one of Zimbabwe’s most well-known lion, 13-year old Cecil.

The environmental impact of acid mine drainage (AMD) is not a threat to the trans-boundary Ramotswa Aquifer situated in the Limpopo Basin.

South Africa’s red meat sector is performing well in a tough local economic environment.

The Western Cape office of the regional land claims commissioner has issued a warning to prospective claimants to beware of false land claims officials.

A record 2 163 young wines, 10% more than last year, were entered for the 2015 SA Young Wine Show.

The SA citrus industry has decided to proactively suspend exports of organic lemons to the EU.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) has approved the acquisition of a R15,5 million farm for eight recently qualified agricultural students in Limpopo, who are currently on a two-year learnership programme with Molemole Local Municipality, according to a recent press release.

Veterinary services in the Western Cape has requested the government to compensate Appie Viviers to cull animals that had contracted brucellosis on his farm Boeteka near Beaufort West, irrespective of whether they had the melitensis strain or not.

Potato cultivar evaluation trials and pests came under the spotlight at the Potatoes SA research symposium held at Bela-Bela in Limpopo.

A home in St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, was the scene of an interesting police bust on the evening of 20 July.

Thousands of day-old broiler chicks at a hatchery east of Pretoria narrowly escaped being consumed by an inferno that eventually severely damaged the building and the incubation equipment that it housed.

Domestic fuel prices were expected to decrease by 35c/litre for petrol and 61c/litre for diesel on 5 August.

Free State Agriculture (FSA) strongly condemned the murder of Dr Hein Smith (77).