Farmers asked to help identify worm
It turns out the outbreak of worms in the Mokopane area in Limpopo and Rayton in eastern Gauteng during September and October 2013, was not army worm, but another kind of worm.
More irrigation farming needed
South Africa’s employment growth and economic momentum could be at stake if irrigation farms are not expanded.
Isolated outbreaks of army worm reported
Outbreaks of army worm have been reported in the Mokopane area in Limpopo and Rayton in eastern Gauteng.
Oliphant spotlights agriculture in the Western Cape
Fresh from a child labour seminar in Brazil, labour minister Mildred Oliphant is to join teams of inspectors during the week-long blitz farm inspections in the Western Cape region of Citrusdal on Thursday, 17 October.
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 disease-carrying ticks in particular are found in the Western and Northern Cape.
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 the winter season.
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 the CEO of the Free State Umbrella Fire Association, Thinus Steenkamp.
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 advisor), speaking at the Agri SA Congress today.
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 trade and industry and agriculture, rural development and land reform to step in and prevent the deal.
