Farmers asked to help with tick map
Cattle, sheep and goat farmers have been asked by parasitologists at Stellenbosch University (SU) to help update a map on tick distribution and establish whether and where four types of...
Investors demand their money
The department of agriculture’s female entrepreneur of the year for 2013, Nomzamo Khosa, has come under fire for failing to pay investors on time.
Frost devastates Orange River grape farmers
Almost 15 000 seasonal workers in the Orange River region of the Northern Cape will not be employed this harvesting season, because of heavy frost damage to vines recently.
Young goats’ mohair set new records
A new international record of R440,10/kg for super fine 24 microns, super style winter kids’ mohair was set by Theronnie van der Merwe of Murraysburg at the fourth sale of...
13 000ha destroyed by veld fire between Memel and Vrede
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...
Hunting body expels member for poaching
The South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SAHGCA) has dishonourably expelled André Klopper (21) from the association for poaching.
Political decisions in the US have a global impact
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...
Farmer unions divided over Afgri deal
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...
World Egg Day
Every year World Egg Day is celebrated on the second Friday in October to raise awareness of the great benefits of eggs.
Two stock theft accused to appear in court
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...
Tragedy strikes Thomas River
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 expected, for now
Normal weather patterns have been predicted for the summer cycle, but a dry spell looms over the next five years.
Grindrod buys into NWK
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...
Aiming for ‘incremental nationalisation’
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...
Consumers to expect fuel price decrease
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...
Volunteers around the world help end hunger
October is World Hunger Action Month, when Stop Hunger Now raises public awareness around the issue of world hunger.
Poultry tariffs bring quantum of solace
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...
Higher import duties on poultry
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 to take farm killings to UN
AfriForum will ask the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues to call for the prioritisation of farm murders in November.
All fracking wells fail over time – Van Tonder
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...
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