Technology

The LAMMA Show at Newark in the UK in January marked the start of a special year for Claas. Joe Spencer reports.

Crammed with features, yet highly affordable, this handsome hatchback is good value for money. Just a pity about the lack of vooma. Lloyd Phillips reports.

This father and son are masters of the art of optimising operations in order to get maximum productivity from their equipment. Joe Spencer reports.

GWM’s new double-cabs are ready for any task and should appeal to SA’s cost-conscious bakkie-lovers. Lloyd Phillips reports.

Case IH is marking Magnum’s quarter century with a limited ‘Silver Edition’ series of tractors. Joe Spencer reports.

The EuroTier 2012 Dairy, Pork and Poultry Technologies Exhibition held in November in Hanover, Germany, showcased the most innovative European farming technology. Lloyd Phillips of Farmer’s Weekly was there to see the products at first hand. In last week’s issue, he described the gold medal winners. This week, he takes a closer look at the silver medallists.

Protea Engineering recently held a demonstration to launch its new cherry picker.

The Strautmann Vertimix self-propelled mixer wagon won a silver medal for innovation at this year’s EuroTier Expo in Germany. Joe Spencer reports.

The venom from Anthopleura may soon be used to develop environmentally friendly pest control and new medicines.

This unique design, using hay bales with fire-retardant cladding, can withstand the heat of the fiercest bushfire.

Cape fox and bat-eared fox numbers are strongly influenced by fluctuations in the population of black-backed jackal, according to research conducted near Kimberley by Dr Jan Kamler of Oxford University. This conclusion holds implications for conservation of the two species, writes Roelof Bezuidenhout.

A conventional, non-GM breeding programme by the University of KwaZulu-Natal is developing high-yielding, virus-resistant crop varieties specifically for African small-scale farmers.