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Precision: the answer to profitable farming
After crop farmers cough up for what is one of the most expensive inputs in agriculture - fertiliser - it's imperative they ensure it is spread accurately. The latest Amazone ZA-M profiS Hydro takes this task to a new level of accuracy and consistency, getting maximum results out of inputs and saving money. Joe Spencer reports.
Issue date: 01 May 2009
Issue date: 01 May 2009
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Dealing with sleepy foal disease
Sleepy foal disease is not common in South Africa but has been seen mainly in Warmbloods and other breeds from imported lines. This disease is caused by the bacteria Actinobacillus equili. Recently a new subspecies, A. haemolyticus has been isolated from foals showing typical symptoms. The transmission of sleepy foal disease is from a carrier mare that infects the newborn as it passes through her bith canal on its way out into the world.
Issue date: 24 April 2009
Issue date: 24 April 2009
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1Sausages with Mash and Onion Gravy
Serves 4 Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes 6 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks 30g butter 160ml hot milk 2...
Stir-fried beef with black beab & noodles
Stir-frying is a cooking style even more dramatic and action-packed than a braai, although the hardened braai mechanics out there will disagree. To them I say, "Read on, brothers.
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Old Platanna
Chameleons may look like mini dinosaurs, but they're a highly evolved kind of lizard with unique abilities, "modifications" and "specs". But their numbers in South Africa are declining, writes Abré J Steyn, with several featuring on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's endangered list.
Observing and training winning pigeons
Importing good pigeons isn't as important as how we train the ones we have, writes Thomas Smit.
Farmers as art gallery curators
Stephen Townley Bassett has dedicated his life to studying and reproducing bushman paintings. He says farmers should consider themselves curators of these unique art galleries. Orrock Robertsen reports.
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Healthy hooves
The angle of the hoof as it meets the ground has implications for your horse's balance, performance and overall wellbeing, writes Kim Dyson.
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Issue date : 08 May 2009
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Salt beats slangbos
Prof Hennie Snyman's research found a teaspoon of salt is enough to kill slangbos without oversalinating soil. He spoke to Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Issue date : 08 May 2008
Issue date : 08 May 2008
Protect your farmworkers from the debt trap
As the global economic crisis continues, unskilled and semi-skilled farmworkers are going to feel the squeeze on their already tight incomes. Farmers should educate staff to avoid the never-ending cycle of debt. Financial debt manager of FairDebt, Ray Williams, spoke to Lloyd Phillips.
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Will credit crunch be over by summer?
The world economy will recover within the next three to six months, and South Africa will follow suit, growing at 5% a year while agriculture faces a period of prosperity. So says Roelof Botha, joint MD of research company Gopa Group SA, former economics lecturer at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, 2005 Sake24/ABSA Economist of the Year and son of former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha.
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Issue date : 08 May 2009
Foreign hunger for arable land
The international scramble for farmland is causing unrest around the world, in some cases
even bringing down governments, and farming has become a serious business with an estimated 1 billion people going hungry by the end of 2008. Robyn Joubert investigates.
Foreign hunger for arable land
The international scramble for farmland is causing unrest around the world, in some cases
even bringing down governments, and farming has become a serious business with an estimated 1 billion people going hungry by the end of 2008. Robyn Joubert investigates.
G8 ministers to redesign agriculture
"The simple solution to the global food emergency is to put farm produce back in the front seat in the economy." So said Italy's farm, food and forestry policies minister Luca Zaia, who chaired the first-ever G8 farm summit in Italy late last month.
"To come through this crisis undamaged we must strengthen the industry from the foundation up, and its foundations are our farmers," said Zaia.
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World to produce more meat
Despite competition for other land resources, high feed costs and low profit margins, world meat production is expected to grow by 2% per year in the next decade. So says a joint outlook for meat from 2008 to 2017 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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Banks accused of stifling economy
South African banks' strict lending policies could drive the country into a full-blown recession, warned Econometrix chief economist Dr Azar Jammine. "Although our banks are healthier than the rest of the world's, their tightening on lending could feed on itself and develop into a full-blown recession in due course," he said, using sales of heavy commercial vehicles to make his point.
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Kwanalu sues ministers and municipalities over unrealistic property rates
The KwaZulu-Natal agricultural Union's has lodged arguments with the High Court in Pietermaritzburg and papers have been served on the national minister of local and provincial government Sicelo Shiceka and 28 other respondents, amongst them the finance minister, the provincial and national agriculture ministers, the provincial MEC for local government and traditional affairs and 21 municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal that have begun implementing the Municipal Property Rates Act.
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Buffalo wings
What a name! Where's the buffalo in all this?
A dam good view
I received a call from Wessels and Gina, who had bought land with a beautiful view over a dam and mountains in the background
Issue date : 01 May 2009
Issue date : 01 May 2009
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