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Giving your animals inoculations – part 2
Some medicines and vaccines can only be given to animals by injection. But you must know what you're doing, otherwise you can hurt the animal.
Using manure on acidic soil
If your soil is acidic, simply applying manure won't improve your yield, so you need to add lime or wood ash.
How to set up a co-op
Cooperatives are popular with government and group projects. We look at the requirements for registration and why you need professional help.
Down memory lane
I got a call from Dallas (not the city in the US) to have a look at his house in Durban that needs upgrading. The house is located in one of the original suburbs of Durban, where in the early days some 45 years ago, I was senior property salesperson for a well-know estate agency.
South African farmers just aren’t appreciated
South Africa's 30 000 commercial farmers provide affordable food, earn foreign currency and contribute massively to the national economy. Despite this, they regularly face threats to their survival.
issue date: 19 November 2010
issue date: 19 November 2010
New environmentally friendly ‘styrofoam’
An ultra-light biodegradable styrofoam substitute may put an end to plastic pollution and overburdened landfills, writes Alan Harman.
Healthy monola set to be a winner
With consumers growing ever more health-conscious and the food industry under pressure to get rid of "bad" cooking oils, this new speciality canola couldn't have been launched at a better time. Demand is only likely to increase, and so will farmers' bottom line. Kobus van Tonder reports.
Conservation implements at KZN No-Till Conference
Distributors and their dealers demonstrated machines from the ever-increasing range of conservation agriculture implements at the KZN No-Till Club's 2010 annual conference near Bergville. Peter Hittersay reports on some new products.
Spend on technology, save on water
Gamtoos Valley's three-year drought meant farmers were only allocated 40% of their annual water quota this year. And the catchment area of the Kouga Dam got little relief, despite recent good rains.
Eastern Cape farmer wins Zegna wool competition
The winner of the 2010 Ermenegildo Zegna fine-wool competition is Stuart Dewing of the farm Highlands in the Eastern Cape's Cathcart district. His winning fleece measured 15,1 microns.
Mohair back on track
The mohair market made a turnabout on the 5th sale, with the indicator gaining 10% to close on R77,61 - and 94,5% of the small, mixed offering was cleared. Mohair SA's general manager, Deon Saayman, said, "Good after-sales will improve this figure."
Wool takes slight drop
BKB's merino wool indicator dropped 1,6% to end at R60,59/kg (clean) at the 10th sale of the season. This is still 5% higher than the comparative sale a year ago, with the rand appreciating by 10% against the US dollar over the same period.
Prison sentence for those caught with illegal poison
Experts on poisons, together with community policing forums across the country, have applauded the prison sentence recently handed out to Johannes Mashego in Heidelberg, Gauteng, for the illegal possession of the highly toxic pesticide, aldicarb.
Squatters invade pineapple farm
East London pineapple farmer Corder Tilney is running low on patience with more than 50 squatters illegally occupying his land. Tilney produces pineapples on about 1 000ha on Shelford Farm near the small coastal town of Kidd's Beach south of East London.
Mulder not being sidelined – minister
At the tabling of the agriculture department's annual report in October, agriculture portfolio committee chairperson Lulu Johnson demanded to know why deputy minister Pieter Mulder's portrait and remarks had been omitted from the report, thereby fuelling rumours that Mulder was being sidelined within the department.
Drought relief trickles down to service providers
About R9 million of the R20 million of drought relief funds held by the Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (ECARD) for the 2009/10 financial year has been made available to service providers who supply farmers with fodder, said Agri Eastern Cape (Agri EC) vice-president Waymend Kritzinger.
Sugar baron’s massive land claim withdrawn
South Africa's largest private sugar farmer, Charl Senekal, has been informed by acting Chief Land Claims Commissioner Sibusiso Gamede that two massive claims on his land are in the process of being degazetted.
Ugu market gets agent
The Ugu fresh produce market on the KZN south coast, which was officially launched in October 2008, is on the cusp of signing on an Agricultural Produce Agents Council (APAC) registered market agent to operate on the sales floor. It is hoped the signing will be a turning point in the market.
Issue date: 12 November 2010
Issue date: 12 November 2010
To the High Court for alleged Karg farm killers
The trial of two of the suspected murderers of Lorraine Karg and the Karg family's domestic worker, Hilda Linyane, and their gardener, Shayi Mhlongo, is set to run in the Pietermaritzburg High court from 16 May to 27 May 2011.
New record cotton price
On 11 October 2010 the Cotlook A Index, which is an indicator of world cotton prices, broke the previous record established in 1995. And on 27 October 2010, it reached the highest ever level of US147c/lb (about R22,41/kg).
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