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A new twist on fruit quality
Dutch company Genetwister is offering to revolutionise SA's export fruit market. Wouter Kriel spoke to Dr Reinette Champanis.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Local vet helps research Ethiopia’s mountain nyala
Veterinarian Dr Dave Cooper, of St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, recently became the first person to successfully dart and immobilise the highly endangered mountain nyala
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Gauteng must up maize production
Gauteng must increase maize production by 10% to 15% to meet the population's food requirements
Issue date : 28 June 2008
Issue date : 28 June 2008
Meat producers talk profit & growth
At the Western Cape RPO's annual meeting, meat producers discussed profitability, industry growth, and the marketing of lamb and mutton and the yellow fat on pasture-fed meat. Wouter Kriel reports.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
W Cape dairy farmers feel the economic pinch
Despite reported global shortages of dairy products, dairy companies in the Western Cape are reducing producer prices. They claim that falling consumer consumption is leaving them with surpluses they're currently selling at a loss. Glenneis Erasmus investigates.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Unlocking the potential of truffles
South African company Woodford Truffles has obtained licensed production technology from the UK-based Mychorrhizal Systems which, it claims, will allow farmers to establish viable black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) orchards.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
New farmers’ union causes a stir
Agri SA and THE National African Farmers' Union (Nafu) fear the newly formed United South African Agricultural Association, which was recently launched in the Western Cape, will further fragment organised agriculture.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
We’ll do our best for farmers,’ say SA’s banks
While commodity prices are increasing, farmers are facing shrinking profit margins as input costs are increasing at a faster rate.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Disgraced agriculture head gets KZN tender
Dr Jabulani Mjwara, the ex-Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, has come under the spotlight again.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
There’s hope for farmers but expect tight margins, says think tank
The past two years of significant growth in profit margins in the primary agriculture industry are either closing rapidly or have already closed.
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Issue date : 27 June 2008
Limpopo MEC under fire for missing money
Limpopo DA leader Michael Holford has taken provincial MEC for agriculture Dikeledi Magadzi to task for requesting more money for "the work of her department", while millions of rand from the previous budget year is unaccounted for.
Issue date: 27 June 2008
Issue date: 27 June 2008
The countryside’s star flowers
The family Hypoxidaceae are the little stars of the veld and are so numerous they sometimes go unnoticed. Here is a brief description of some of them and their relatives by Cameron McMaster.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
townie on the infectious internet
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Human eagle eyes
Sound… Camera… Action!" The huge Arriflex Cine camera started to roll while the focus puller fiddled with the controls, the director dived under the black cloth to watch the recorded image on the monitor screen and I released my trained tawny eagle, Veruschka, over the cliff.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Bacterial canker – less frequent now but still destructive
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Xenophobic chaos: a table with only two legs
'Just like a table, discipline topples if it doesn't have four sturdy legs in place'
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
The value of agri insurance
The most important consideration for a farmer is whether he can afford not to insure his business and whether he can survive possible disaster," says the newly appointed head of Santam Agri, Dr Tobias Doyer, previously CEO of the Agricultural Business Chamber. Farmers must have the capacity to deal with possible disaster he told Annelie Coleman
20 June 2008
20 June 2008
US takes care of farmers
The latest US farm bill is an example of how a country should care for its agriculture. We would do well to follow the example
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Redistributing water: the big picture
Water, like land, will be redistributed with 70% of licensed water eventually being allocated to blacks. It's time that farmers start to understand this bigger picture of water management, says Willie Enright specialist chief engineer at the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Nampo’s planters & harvesters
"Over 620 suppliers and exhibitors displayed their products to 64 198 visitors at the 2008 Nampo Harvest Day," says Nampo chairperson Jub Jubelius. "We also hosted more overseas visitors and exhibitors this year." Combines keep getting bigger and planters wider. This year all the main players showed new, improved units. Joe Spencer reports.
Issue date: 20 June 2008
Issue date: 20 June 2008
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