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Three men accused of killing an elderly Mpumalanga farmer during a robbery in January have been denied bail.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

The Port Elizabeth High Court has ruled in favour of the Grasslands Group of dairy farms which recently took the Department of Agriculture to court over alleged irregularities in compensation for dairy cows slaughtered under Animal Disease Act No 35 of 1984.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Workers offload Angora goat carcasses from a flatbed trailer in the Eastern Cape.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Suth Africa's agricultural leaders will have to find more constructive methods to address conflict with land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana, said Mohammad Karaan, chairperson of the National Agricultural Marketing Council. He said the current approach of confronting the minister on everything she says is creating a stalemate, which is damaging to the industry as a whole.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Biofuel Company Ethanol has secured funding of R825 million to continue construction of the first maize-to-ethanol plant in Bothaville in the Free State. This announcement comes amid recent allegations by maize farmers that their financial investments into the company have gone missing.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

A proposal being put to Cabinet that landowners wishing to sell their properties should first offer them to the state has sparked fears the land market could grind to a halt because an overstretched and poorly skilled land affairs department already struggling to meet land transfer demands will be faced with a massive increase in the number of property transactions it must process.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Already faced with escalating prices, consumers will from next month have to fork out more for fuel - which will impact further on food prices.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana had Canegrowersofficials scurrying to implement damage control recently after she mistakenly accused the organisation of carrying out transformation within its management structures too slowly, especially with regard to the appointment of women.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Forensic investigations are under way to determine the cause of a wildfire that recently swept through farms 20km north of Bloemfontein in the Free State, causing massive damage to crops, livestock and infrastructure.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Growth in grain-based ethanol production will have a significant impact on the feed industry. This was a key message from Roger Gilbert, secretary general of the International Feed Industry Federation, at the Sixth International Congress for the Animal Feed Industry held at Sun City in North West recently.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Grain has resolved not to support the adjustments to the draft AgriBEE charter proposed by land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana.
Issue date:23 March 2007

The CEO of the Agricultural Business Chamber Tobias Doyer said the agriculture industry needs to develop partnerships with private organisations and government to ensure the development of technology to increase farm productivity and reduce costs.
Issue date:23 March 2007