Massive turnaround plan
Last week Farmer's Weekly exposed how the Eastern Cape's Massive Food Programme degenerated into large-scale looting of the public purse. Now the province's agriculture department has circulated a candid report...
Africa News – 24 August 2007
Dismal wheat harvest in ZimDonkeys sold as beef Fighting disrupts Kenya's farmers Issue Date: 24 August 2007
Afma fights for cheap feed
The Animal Feed Manufacturers Association (Afma) wants a reduction in regulatory costs that are harming the competitiveness of the animal feed industry. De Wet Boshoff, Afma general manager, said they...
Two arrested for ‘poacher’ death
Two farmers were arrested recently after the decomposed body of Richard Mkhari was found tied to a tree on Vygeboom farm near Phalaborwa in Limpopo. C ommunity members from the...
‘Human tsunami’ turns Musina into a boom town
Bread sales at the Musina Superspar have gone from 1 500 loaves a day to 3 500. is just one example of booming food sales in this Limpopo town near...
Lions maul farmworker
Farmworker Johannes Molemi's bodily remains were found on Shambala Private Reserve near Vaalwater in Limpopo after he was apparently killed by lions.Issue Date: 24 August 2007
Govt refutes W’spruit radioactivity
Radioactive pollutants have contaminated crops and livestock in the Wonderfonteinspruit area southwest of Johannesburg, and physicists have warned of severe health impacts.Issue Date: 24 August 2007
Specialised kit to customise quads
The QM-0423 high-pressure towed sprayer, manufactured by QuadMaster of Merrivale, is hga recent addition to the range of quad bike equipment Issue date 24 August 2007
compromise on cotton subsidy?
The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) proposed compromise texts on agriculture are good news for the cotton industry. A specific treatment for cotton under all three pillars of the agriculture negotiations,...
‘Corruption buster’ to head KZN Agriculture
Promises to turn around the dismal state of affairs at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of and Environmental Affairs (DAEA) are gradually being fulfilled, with the appointment of a purported “corruption buster”...
Home victory for Elsenburg
The annual Pannar Rugby week for agricultural colleges took place at the College in Stellenbosch recently Issue date 17 August 2007
Eskort celebrates 90 years, new CEO
On 17 July 2007 it was exactly 90 years since a group of eight farmers from the Natal Midlands opened a pork factory on the banks of the Boesmans River...
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