Caxton Magazines
Empowering the veld!
Improve productivity all round, especially in mixed farming regions, by looking after your veld.
Save our lions!
With lion bones replacing tiger bones in Asian ‘medicines’, we could be facing another serious poaching problem.
Use your freedoms wisely cautions former intelligence co-ordinator
The storm over a risque satirical painting of President Jacob Zuma has led ANC leaders like Gwede Mantashe to warn South Africans not to make gratuitous use of constitutional freedoms.
Citrusdal’s tragic harvest
Poverty and moral decay leave a wake of violence, threatening farm security in the tranquil Cederberg. Sean Christie reports.
Success at Last?
Many role players have for years lamented the lack of commitment by municipalities when it comes to their fresh produce markets.
Trees
One man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, turned a wasteland into a paradise valley of forests, farms and neat villages.
Some controversy on farm murder monument
The annual pilgrimage of farmers and sympathetic parties to the so-called farm murder monument on the slopes of the Ysterberg alongside the N1 near Mokopane is set to take place on 2 June this year.
Agricultural machinery sales expected to spike on back of weakening Rand
A weakening Rand to the US Dollar is expected to hasten farmers’ plans to invest in capital equipment.
Minister’s award garners mixed reactions
There have been mixed reactions from organised agriculture over an award bestowed on Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, by the French government.
Small-scale farmer unions make their mark
Smallholder farming’s contribution to agriculture has been recognised at the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU).
WC Farmers not happy with predation management protocol
Western Cape livestock farmers and provincial authorities are getting closer to finalising an agreement on the management of damage causing animals, particularly black-backed jackal, caracal and bushpig.
Investors cautions, but still interested
Foreign direct investment in local agriculture and agro-processing has come under pressure lately due to political uncertainty.
The science of shooting
Jurie Nel hunter, amateur ballistician and keen hand loader provides insight on energy transfer, penetration, deformation and the wound channel.
Fertilising your land
Use enough fertiliser and place it correctly, so that you can be assured of a good yield, says Bill Kerr.
A touch of Tuscany
Jonno designs a single plan house with tuscan-style roofing.
‘Don’t dehorn, educate the people’
Should a decision be taken to dehorn rhinos it would send a negative message to the rest of the world that South Africa is losing the battle against poaching, Dr Johan Joubert of the Shamwari Group told the annual Absa Wildlife Conference.
Food prices bite poor the hardest
Annual food price inflation stood at 8,7% between April 2011 and April 2012, while headline inflation increased by 6,1% over the same period.
Agriculture job creation questioned
The most recent quarterly labour force survey conducted by Stats SA shows that employment in agriculture increased by 8,8% over the past year.
Concern about land use bill
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform will most likely miss the submission deadline for the long-anticipated Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill. Denene Erasmus reports.
Pigs: how to get started – Part 2
In this second instalment on farming pigs, we look at which breeds to consider and how to examine a pig to see whether it’s healthy.
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