It’s global warming, says Manuel

South Africa’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October, excluding mortgage costs, is 0,6% higher at 7,3% year-on-year compared with September’s 6,7%. With the CPI for food at a record increase...

Online booking for SANParks

SANParks launched its real-time online bookings system recently, making it possible for internet users to make reservations 22 hours of the day. The system will relieve pressure on the SANParks...

SAPD not taking crime seriously – Free State Agriculture

Kobus Breytenbach of State Agriculture’s law and order committee says it is clear the SA Police Department (SAPD) in the Free State is not motivated to solve and prevent violent...

Former board members of Samic pass away

Gerard Braak Sr died last month after a long illness. Braak was an active member of the organised pig industry between 1950 and 1990, inter alia as chairperson of the...

Good signs for mohair

The average price for the 2007 winter season closed on R65,81 and the average for the year ended on R72,69, slightly down from the average for 2006, according to Mohair...

Dismal outlook for Nigerian farmers

Harvests in many parts of northern Nigeria were so poor this year that many farmers may not have the means to plant next season. Issue Date: 18 January 2008

Agri input costs under the spotlight

The National Agricultural Marketing Council last month published its first report on agricultural input costs for the period 1996 to 2006. Issue Date: 18 January 2008

Winter harvest better than expected

The Crop Estimates Committee’s most recent production figures for the 2007 winter crop show a slight increase on previous figures. The fourth production forecast for wheat is 1 757 million...

Not only diversity makes Cyrtanthus exceptional

The rarest of our Cyrtanthus species is the Bredasdorp lily, found on only the lower sandstone slopes of the mountains around Bredasdorp. No adjectives adequately describe the beauty of this...

Old habitats die hard

In this world life can't exist without death. A new generation is born from an old one that dies. For every new year that begins, an old one ends. The...