Local Herefords get Topp US genes
BonHaven Beef Cattle of Tarkastad, Eastern Cape has partnered with Herefords & Red Angus of North Dakota in the US. This intensive embryo programme will involve bringing some of the...
Vet warns against ‘quackery’
Dr Peter Oberem of Afrivet warns that safeguarding the environment while protecting and improving the health and production of livestock is a complex task that must be tackled by the...
minis and MONSTERS
Many of the younger generation field sports people today can't imagine a world without capable 4x4s. But when I was young, capable off-road vehicles were scarce, and you either had...
Lamb shanks in rosemary and orange
Lamb shanks, along with oxtail, are rated right up there with the greatest comfort foods of all time. Both are tender beyond belief, falling from the bone with only the...
Remedies to heal abscesses
AN ABSCESS IS THE BODY'S WAY OF isolating and eliminating infection and dead or foreign material. Very often when the body has experienced a deep penetrating wound and a small...
Cabbage diseases: sclerotia and white blister
Sclerotia disease in cabbages can, in severe cases, wipe out an entire cabbage crop. It's a sporadic problem and by understanding the life cycle of the disease, you can minimise...
SA ostrich sector determines its own success
Despite bans on ostrich meat exports to Europe over the past two years and increased competition with other market products, the ostrich industry has positioned itself firmly in the international...
South African bioethanol: pipe dream or viable proposition?
'Chances of using maize worth R1 900 per ton to produce ethanol at a profit are very slim.'Issue date: 20 April 2007
Thumbs up for SA farming
Simon Beal-Preston, grand-nephew of Donnie Beal-Preston who died in December 2006, addressed the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union (ECAU) in Port Elizabeth. Simon runs a dairy farm at Easterstead in the...
Promising new Valtra tractors
Wynn Dedwith of Parys-based Valtrac, the importers and distributors of Valtra tractors in South Africa, expects the latest T Series Valtra tractors to be locally available later this year.
Paraguayan technology saves SA’s apples
For years Pieter Fourie, project manager of the Bethlehem Farmers' Trust, struggled with an annual loss of 40% to the project's apple crop. Local experts couldn't come up with any...
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