Caxton Magazines
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Issue Date: 31 October 2008
