Sussex newcomer makes good
Part-time cattle farmer George Potgieter of Pothou Stud in Vredefort combined his razor-sharp business acumen with meticulous record keeping, and some luck, to receive the award for this year's Farmer's...
South Africa after 2010? on course, says expert, provided…
Despite fingering fiscal policy, labour legislation and infrastructrure as obstacles to growth, Dr Roelof Botha, economic adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers, remains optimistic about the economy. Cornelia du Plooy reports.Issue Date: 28...
Registering a carbon reduction project
In the concluding article on carbon trading, Sonja Burger finds out how agribusinesses can register carbon emission reduction projects and earn carbon credits.Issue Date: 28 September 2007
The platteland in oils and charcoal
Award-winning artist and farm girl Pauline Gutter attempts to capture the essence of Free State rural life through her large oil paintings and charcoal sketches. Today, still in her twenties,...
Lean red meat doesn’t increase cholesterol
We've all heard that a good thick steak takes us one step closer to a heart attack, but Glenneis Erasmus finds that new research indicates otherwise.Issue Date: 28 September 2007
A GOURMET BURGER WITH ONION MARMALADE
Every month or so happiness arrives in a polystyrene box containing a relatively fresh take-away hamburger, runny with mayo, solid with salt, heaped with verlepte chips boiled in very old...
Building a maternity room
Prepare the stable carefully for a mare in foal to give her and the youngster the best possible start. Greg MilesIssue Date 21 September 2007
Farmers and workers, unite!
Anthonie Visagie, Farmworker of the Year 2005, talked to farmers and farmworkers about freeing themselves from the past at the Agri Mega Week Farmworker of the Year competition, recently held...
Bell grading the way
A cover story in the 7 September edition of Farmer's Weekly highlighted the desperate state of South Africa's road infrastructure. It's therefore gratifying to see that Equipment, based in Richard's...
What keeps black small-scale farmers on crutches?
At the recent Agribusiness Trends Dialogue Teddy Matsetela, chairperson of the Farmers Development Trust, told delegates that 80% of black producers in South Africa are subsistence farmers, 19% are emerging...
Producing sensational Santa Gertrudis
Craig Marwick of Little Harmony Santa Gertrudis Stud produced this year's Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Cow. Added to this he has won the Absa-ARC Beef Cattle Improvement Scheme Herd of...
Trials on hold for GMO chincherinchee
Scientists have boosted the virus resistance of what could be a major floricultural crop with GMO technology, but out-of-lab trials are on hold for now. Lloyd Phillips reports.Issue Date 21...
Game ranching at the crossroads
Conservationist, big game hunter, and wildlife author Ron Thomson tells Roelof Bezuidenhout why game ranchers should tear themselves from the claws of the DEAT. Issue date 14 September 2007
Bacterial bean diseases #2
Common blight and halo blight (7 September) are the two most destructive bacterial bean diseases Issue date 14 September 2007
Nederburg Auction offers a line-up of superb wines
Once Again The 33rd Nederburg Auction, to be held on 28 and 29 September 2007, has an impressive line-up of superb wines Issue date 14 September 2007
Dealing with farmers’ fears
In general, white commercial farmers are not against the principle of land reform but have serious concerns about the way in which it is implemented Issue date 14 September 2007
North Indian chicken and tomato curry
In Anthony Bourdain�s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, the chef and author tells us amateur food mechanics that the big difference between home-cooked and high-class restaurant food is...
Mealie pap diesel
'…you must realise that petroleum produces about 1,5 times more energy than ethanol, so ultimately you'll work at a loss.' Issue date 14 September 2007
Saving power by increasing efficiency
The Power Saving Company, based in Midrand, has just released remarkable electricity saving technology onto the South African market Issue date 14 September 2007
