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South Africa’s peach and apricot industry under threat

If the current trend of establishing fewer apricots and peaches each year prevails, the industry could disappear in 10 years' time
Issue date: 14 November 2008

Penalties for EU dairy overachievers

Seven European Union countries face penalties totalling 338,7 million euros (over R4 trillion) for exceeding their milk quotas during 2007/2008.
Issue date : 14 November 2008

World economy threatens agricultural research

Researchers in Australia and New Zealand are concerned that the global financial crisis could significantly reduce investment in biotechnology and agricultural science
Issue date: 14 November 2008

Protection for dairy and soya considered

The department of agriculture and Land Affairs and the Department of Trade and Industry are considering the possibility of import tariffs to protect local farmers.
Issue date : 14 November 2008

Farmers told to slaughter cows to stabilise market

While muted consumer spending has resulted in an unforeseen oversupply of milk and a downward adjustment in farmgate prices, these reductions aren't fully carried over to consumers.
Issue date: 14 November 2008

Vinpro no longer a co-op

Vinpro, the representative organisation for South African wine producers, has been converted from a co-op to a company in order to adapt to changing realities in the agricultural environment, said Abrie Botha, Vinpro chairperson, speaking at Vinpro's recent annual general meeting.
Issue date : 14 November 2008

The UN is banking on organic farming

Agriculture has been identified as one of the five most important sectors in the United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP's) Global Economy Initiative.
Issue date: 14 November 2008

Lowveld miracles

Suddenly the deep and loud guttural "Hooouwp" of a hyena sounded out of the bushes quite close by.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

The all-in-one Leatherman Genus

Take everything you know about professional pruners and turn it on its head
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Spacing cucurbits – easier said than done

In years gone by, there were only open-pollinated pumpkins and gems. As seeds were so cheap, nearly all recommendations were for a generous number of seeds to be planted to make sure of a good stand. No thought was given to the influence on yield.
Issue date: 07 November 2008

A business plan for success

"It should be no problem to extend your overdraft Mr Jones. Just bring in a copy of your business plan and we'll do our best to arrange it."
Issue date : 07 November 2008

2008 Middle-distance results

There are 15 clubs in Gauteng that jointly form the Transvaal Racing Pigeon Federation and there were 12 short-distance race events, 12 middle-distances races and 13 long-distance races held in the 2008 season.
Issue date: 07 November 2008

Green Scorpions:are their hands tied?

Unbridled mining activity is but one dimension to South Africans polluting more per capita than the Chinese. The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism's Environmental Management Inspectorate (EMI),known as the Green Scorpions, is the authority most people think should be preventing such ecological devastation.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

International outlook

The international economic outlook has worsened. South African farmers will also suffer as export commodity prices decrease and a weaker rand drives inflation and possibly interest rates in coming months.
Issue date: 07 November 2008

Who is entitled to what land?

Former Foreign Affairs minister and current member of the ANC, Pik Botha, says land reform is in the interest of everyone. However landownership has been a contentious issue throughout South Africa's history and some hard facts can't be erased or ignored.
Issue date: 07 November 2008

Releasing game onto the worldwide web

Gideon van Niekerk is a solutions-driven businessman from Gauteng with a passion for the game and hunting industry. When some of his game-ranching friends and hunting outfitters complained they sometimes find it difficult to source game for breeding or hunting purposes, he came up with a solution.He tells Jasper Raats how he is using the internet to solve some of the challenges in the hunting industry.
Issue date: 07 November 2008

Andrio Stud scoops top honours again

Ian Robert Turnbull of the farm Holderness near Barkly East in the Eastern Cape has again walked away with a Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Cow award for his cow IRT98 0018. She is a self-bred Appendix A animal, a phenotype South Devon. Orrock Robertsen went to investigate.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Wealth from bricks&beef

The Sterkspruit district of the former Transkei is defined by poverty, yet Petrus Monoana returned there in the 1980s, to establish what is today, a booming brick business. As Mike Burgess learned, it was this business that later helped reinvent him as a self-made black commercial beef producer in the Zastron district.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Holsteinspurebred or crossbred?

Studies in the US found that crossbreeding Holsteins with Normande, Montbeliarde and Scandinavian Red cattle reduces the number of cow deaths, with only 10 out of 1 075 crossbreds dying,compared to 15 of 415 purebred Holsteins. Rrobyn Joubert reports.
Issue date : 08 November 2008

The SA wool market is bottoming out

The global financial crisis and recession fears are continuing to influence the wool market negatively and the Merino indicator this week declined by 4,2%...

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