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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%...

A new goat and sheep milk processors’ organisation

Goat and sheep milk processors joined forces in October to establish the Southern African Goat and Sheep Milk Processors' Organisation (SAGS) at a meeting in Bloemfontein.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Export Joy may not last

TheE recent Rand depreciation could have short-term advantages for agriculture, says Lindie Botha, the manager of Economic Intelligence and Finance at the Agricultural Business Chamber.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

The new scramble for Africa concerns Motlanthe

With the global demand for biofuel production, Africa's arable land is increasingly being used to grow crops for biofuel.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Mphela blames free-market principles

Acting Chief Land Claim Commissioner Blessing Mphela said recently that they need more than R17 billion to settle outstanding land claims.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Credit and inputs force farmers to plant less

The expected area planted to maize for the 2008/09 season is estimated to drop by 8,5% or 237 000ha less than the 2,8 million hectares planted last season.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Welfare spending doesn’t address South Africa’s real problems

A focus on welfare spending in the national budget is not helping to solve the real problems in South Africa.This is the opinion of some economists after finance minister Trevor Manuel presented his medium-term budget policy to parliament on 21 Ooctober.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Agri SA implores the state to choose its words carefully

Agri SA has called on the ANC and government to demonstrate sensitivity amid the current climate of financial uncertainty.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Online land register launched

Agri SA and the it company Item Online recently launched a project that will compile a comprehensive database for agriculture in South Africa.
Issue date : 07 November 2008

Senecio: the dreaded toxic plant

With sound veld management Senecio infestation and poisoning can be avoided, writes Cameron McMaster.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

Seed vs seedlings for cucurbits?

This question arises most often in spring when there is risk of late frost impacting on newly emerged seedlings in the field.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

Townie the computer spy

"Big Brother is watching you," I said to neighbour Jan over morning coffee on my stoep.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

MADUMBE IN A CURRIED SAUCE

Exotic 'potatoes' As an old Natal boy, madumbe is well known to me. On its own, peeled and boiled in salt water, madumbe has the texture and most of the taste of a baked potato, but with a little something extra in the flavour.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

Carnival City Allflight Lofts

A One-Day Pigeon Racing Loft takes in newly weaned racing pigeons from fanciers and races them on the fanciers' behalf. The youngsters are homed and loft-trained at the same loft complex. Once they are ready, following the pretraining flights, they're sent to the final to compete for a cash prize.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

You might not believe it, but bankers are human

'They don't respond with great enthusiasm to a boring, badly prepared business plan delivered by a faceless client. If you want special attention you need to do something special.'
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

Rouvos Drakensberger herd: breeding only the best

Gawie Roux of the farm Kalkfontein in Kroonstad, Free State, bred and owns the 2008 Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Drakensberger cow GR 97 0726. She is 11 years old, has had nine calves and is pregnant with her tenth, writes Wayne Southwood.
Issue Date: 31 October 2008

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