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

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.

Zim farmers murdered, agriculture trumped by mining

A renewed wave of intimidation and violence against the remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe can be attributed to Zanu-PF's well-worn strategy of upping violence before an election, and to the greed of local politicians who, far from taking an agricultural interest in the farms they seize in great numbers, hope that the land will contain precious minerals, according to Zimbabwean farmers and union leaders.

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