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In the fifth and final article in this series on habitat planning, habitat designer Ben Breedlove tells Roelof Bezuidenhout that game ranch owners must walk the walk their visitors walk.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

Dairy farmers should take note of the causes and effects of high somatic cell counts as milk buyers and processors worldwide implement more stringent requirements in this regard.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

Although the first local ethanol plant has yet to be constructed, Ethanol Africa is already gearing up to compete with the major grain co-ops for maize, production credit and silo facilities. Major shifts in the market are clearly on the cards. Johan Steyn reports.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

The Mzimvubu Basin is justly regarded as the greatest untapped source of agricultural wealth in South Africa.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

The Mzimvubu Basin is justly regarded as the greatest untapped source of agricultural wealth in South Africa.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

he Wessels brothers from Karsrivier recently won the South Cape Canola competition with a yield of 2,05 tons per hectare and a gross margin of R2 654 per hectare.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

The Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute recently confirmed a case of rabies in a horse on a farm between Somerset West and Stellenbosch, the first in the area for 17 years.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

The Department of Agriculture and the Finnish government will establish an agribusiness academy in Limpopo,­ premier Sello Moloto has announced.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

She's only three months old, but little Rael du Plessis, the daughter of Francois and Belinda du Plessis, was determined to go for a ride on the back of this Hereford bull named Scroptop Scoop.

Australian farmers are being offered a break from the country's crippling drought through free holidays in New Zealand.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

EurepGAP launched the third version of its Good Agricultural Practice Standard at this year's Fruit Logistica Fruit and Vegetable fair in Berlin, Germany.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

Despite agricultural economists saying dairy farmers need to be paid at least R2,20 a litre by this month to remain financially viable, big milk buyers Clover and Parmalat have said they are willing to give KZN farmers R1,96/litre, an increase of only 15c a litre, backdated to 1 February of this year.