Summer crop estimates lower than initial projections
The Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) released its second production forecast for summer grain crops for 2013 and all crops – except dry beans – have come in lower than initial...
Ladies of labour
In South Africa the most food garden projects in rural and poorer areas are run by women, like the food garden at Langalibalele Dube Primary School in Orange Farm, south...
Rural power price increases higher than urban increases
Rural municipalities will pay 12% more for power from Eskom as of 1 July, while rural customers who buy power directly from Eskom will pay 9,3% more and rates for...
Thousands of flying exterminators released against tree pests
The South African commercial forestry sector is making strides towards controlling the costly depredations of the Blue Gum Chalcid (Leptocybe invasa) in eucalyptus plantations.
KZN rangers shoot and kill suspected rhino poacher
Field rangers manning the Cengeni Gate of Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, shot dead a suspected rhino poacher.
KZN farmers spell out their needs to government
KwaZulu-Natal farmers of all races and production scales have presented a comprehensive list of their needs and concerns to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs (DAEA).
Ferrero seeks to expand hazelnut network
Global confectionary giant Ferrero, manufacturer of Ferrero Roche and Nutella, is looking to expand its network of hazelnut growers in SA, delegates heard at the East Coast Intensive Horticulture growers’...
Department of Water Affairs cancels Harties clean-up project
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) is pulling the plug on its project to clean up the Hartebeespoort Dam, situated west of Pretoria.
Dutch seed technology comes to Pietermaritzburg
Dutch seed technology company Incotec recently opened a R13 million purpose-built plant in Pietermaritzburg, after having identified the KwaZulu-Natal capital as being ideally located to launch its expansion into sub-Saharan...
Four suspected stock thieves caught
Four suspected stock thieves, aged between 21 and 63 were recently arrested in the Msinsini area of KwaZulu-Natal, after the police found three allegedly stolen goats tied up at their...
Local whisky best in the world
South Africa’s first single grain whisky, Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky, has been announced as the World’s Best Grain Whisky at the annual Whisky Magazine’s World Whisky Awards (WWA) held in...
Farm attackers should be removed from society – Modise
Perpetrators of violence against the farming community had no place in society and should be permanently removed.
Drought pushes down meat prices
Now is the time for consumers to bargain hunt, according to Koos van der Ryst, vice-chairperson of the National Red Meat Producer’s Organisation (RPO).
Farming needs sympathetic consumers, supportive govt
Consumers need a better understanding of agriculture and the work done by farmers and workers, it was said at the launch of this year’s Bien Donné Agri Cape Week. Denene...
Grain industry seeks a way out of the storm
The grain industry has experienced a tough five months, with the national transport strike depressing tonnages milled.
Abalone farming leads aquaculture growth in SA
Abalone farming in South Africa, which first started in the 1990s, is expected to increase fivefold within the next decade.
Time to get paranoid about shearing shed hygiene
Despite its high quality, SA’s wool clip is becoming the most heavily contaminated by foreign objects in the world, according to Isak Staats, BKB’s manager of wool and mohair.
Brine discussions continue
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), importers and re-workers of poultry and local producers recently held a meeting to further discuss the practice of brining in the poultry...
Bringing the farm to the consumer
Consumers need a better understanding of agriculture for them to fully appreciate farmers.
Grain transport differential ‘will be phased out’ in future
he South African grain production market is increasingly becoming more sophisticated and that will eventually lead to the phasing out of the Safex transport differential, said Grain SA Maize Working...
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