Trevor stays the course in stormy seas – Doyer
Head of Santam’s agricultural business unit, Tobias Doyer, believes finance minister Trevor Manuel’s budget speech was a stinging rebuke to his leftist critics.Issue date: 07 March 2008
Legal action taken against state conveyancers
After waiting a year and half for state-appointed transfer attorneys to pay over money outstanding after a land restitution transfer, a group of Limpopo farmers have decided to initiate civil...
Treasury won’t cough up for land reform
Scaling back on land reform spending, half a billion more for extension officers, VAT red tape relief, more sin taxes and a fuel levy hike were some of Trevor Manuel’s...
Location differentials for maize rising
The differentials for white and yellow maize will increase 16,5% for the road component and 18% for the rail component in the 2008/09 marketing season, according to Rod Gravelet-Blondin, senior...
Prices threaten food security in Sub-Sahara
Food security in Sub-Saharan Africa will decline in the next decade. In South Africa, government will have to take quick action if they want to prevent food shortages and the...
Lay down your weapons!
t was like looking into the sun. The driver of the oncoming car refused to dim his headlights. The next moment my Land Cruiser station wagon hit a huge, unseen...
Expert fights poor kidding
With low kidding averages and tight profit margins, mohair farmers must take care of their flocks, Dr Antonie Geyer told Roelof Bezuidenhout. Issue date: 7 March 2008
Let tractors put carbon back into the ground
We are bombarded with suggestions about how we can reduce our “carbon footprint” and help save the planet, but a breakthrough by a Canadian farmer may have a real impact...
Private ownership makes for ostrich success
Zimbabwean refugee farmer Martin Fick of Salem Agribusiness Company, together with Christian organisation Khula Sizwe, have kick-started an ostrich production programme that’s transforming the lives of small-scale farmers in the...
Does compost tea work?
The use of compost tea in South Africa is a relatively new fertiliser innovation and has been met with huge scepticism by some agriculturists. Those who have incorporated it into...
The Biowatch legal battle: setting the record straight
Biowatch director, Leslie Liddell points to omissions in the views expressed by advocate Donrich Jordaan on the recent High Court rulings on a dispute over access to information about GMOs.Issue...
Sugar growers in a pickle
Small-scale cane grower numbers are down by almost 23%. Robyn Joubert asked SA Canegrowers’ chairperson Tim Murray why, and what the industy is doing about it. Issue date: 7 March...
