South Africa

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 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, 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...

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...

Perpetrators of violence against the farming community had no place in society and should be permanently removed.

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).

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...

The grain industry has experienced a tough five months, with the national transport strike depressing tonnages milled.

Abalone farming in South Africa, which first started in the 1990s, is expected to increase fivefold within the next decade.

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.

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...

Consumers need a better understanding of agriculture for them to fully appreciate farmers.