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Getting the most out of your glyphosate product
Glyphosate-based broad-spectrum systemic herbicides are invaluable in most farming enterprises. But follow simple guidelines to avoid sub-optimal and economically wasteful results. Lloyd Phillips reports.
Size matters
Charl Senekal's achievements over the past 30 years have made him a 'super farmer' - he's got big ideas and the guts to follow them through. He told Robyn Joubert about his success with mechanisation and economy of scale.
Tax breaks for wildlife farmers
The first step is proving you're a genuine game farmer - and allowing the occasional hunter onto your land doesn't count.
Sclerotinia strikes!
SCLEROTINIA disease can overwhelm many crops, especially in wet climates. I experienced a severe outbreak in my bean crop in 2009 during the persistent rainy season. I hadn't seen the disease in any of my crops for years and I'm uncertain of where the infection started.
How farmers can gang up on veldfires
Moses Khangale, deputy director for veld and forest fire regulation and oversight at the department of agriculture, discusses the importance of Fire Protection Associations and tells Heather Dugmore how to register one.
How to treat soft tissue injuries on horses
Knowing how soft tissue injuries occur will help you alleviate your horse's pain and speed up the healing process, writes Kim Dyson.
Land reform farms that work
Many land reform farms have collapsed, so are there any that work? The Free State Agriculture Land Reform Success Day showcased some successful land reform farms. Peter Mashala reports.
How co-op shares work
Money is usually the main source of conflict in a business, and shares are all about money, so understanding how they work will save you a lot of hassle, writes Susan Pletts.
Know your soil
Knowing what kind of soil you have will help you prepare it correctly - improving it and increasing yield.
Giving your animals inoculations – part 3
When it comes to inoculating your animals, you have to know what you're doing, or you'll hurt the animal. This week, we look at the different ways of giving injections
Issue date: 26 November 2010
Issue date: 26 November 2010
Now is the time to get to know your pigeons
Once racing is over serious fanciers have more time available to attend to the little things about pigeon racing that make all the difference between winning and losing.
Strawbale fever
Strawbale building has gathered much interest from Farmer's Weekly readers. Abre J Steyn answers a few more questions on the technology, and envisions a database through which readers can share their insights.
Friendly advice
We had a surprise visit from a couple my wife and I befriended some 40 years ago. Trevor and Margaret found an old copy of Farmer's Weekly with my picture in it and ferreted me out.
Water committee founders soon after launch
President Jacob Zuma's recent surprise cabinet reshuffle couldn't have come at a worse time for the new National Water Advisory Committee (NWAC).
Heads roll at water affairs
It was a dark day for Water affairs.
Cape grain harvest appears better than thought
Harvesting of the 2010 Western Cape grain crop has started, with prospects in much of the Swartland wheat-producing region looking favourable, thanks to good weather conditions during most of the growing season.
However, farmers in the eastern parts of the southern Cape are "reaping a nightmare", according to Grain SA's Schalk Viljoen.
Pioneer settlement lights the way
Pioneer Food's settlement with the Competition Commission includes a payment of R250 million to the Industrial Development Corporation to set up an Agro-Processing Competitiveness Fund.
Commission seeks to crack egg and poultry cases
Pioneer Food's R855 million settlement with the Competition Commission for anti-competitive behaviour finally closes all cases against the food giant in the bread, flour and wheat industries.
Minister makes gun licence promises
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's recent promise to sort out the extensive problems in the Central Firearms Registry (CFR) has drawn both applause and criticism from organisations representing South Africa's law-abiding gun owners.
No rain inhibits farmers’ expenditure
No rain inhibits farmers’ expenditure on The South African Agricultural Machinery Association (SAAMA) has attributed the slow start to this summer's general rains as the main reason behind equally slow farmers' purchases of new tractors and combine harvesters during October.
