Caxton Magazines
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
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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
How BEE made this stone fruit producer
Motivation is at an all-time high and theft and absenteeism have evaporated among farmworkers two years after this farm was converted into a massive BEE enterprise. In an area not suited to stone fruit production, Bambanani has doubled production and secured long-term benefits for workers. Sharon Götte reports.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
The land of milk & honeybush
The people of Haarlem in the Langkloof were harvesting wild honeybush long before commercial growing and the current market boom. But in a town of 3 000-odd townspeople, 80% were left without an income in the off-season. Today, Charlton Fortuin of the Haarlem Honeybush Association has already helped lead their organically certified teas straight to Pick 'n Pay's shelves. Glenneis Erasmus reports.
Issue : 20 June 2008
Issue : 20 June 2008
Taking the guesswork out of breeding
Bertus Mong is one of SA's leading beef producers, having won the ARC-ABSA Beef Cattle Improvement Herd of the Year with his BM Hereford stud for three consecutive years. He recently spoke to Glenneis Erasmus about the benefits of performance testing.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Boreholes and boeremusiek
The development of farming in the arid interior owes a great deal to the old stamper drills and vastrap concertinas, writes Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SA blooms at the Chelsea Flower Show
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SA’s first home-bred Pintabian
When Raine Heart foaled on the 29 February, her foal Al Barec Jill officially became South Africa's first home-bred Pintabian filly.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Agri is World Development Bank’s hero
Titled World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, the World Development Bank's report champions agriculture's role in the fight against poverty and food insecurity - and the bank has pledged to put US$800 million where its mouth is. Glenneis Erasmus reports.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SANDF to outsource border functions
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Organic cotton now grown commercially
The first organic cotton planted on a commercial scale in South Africa was harvested on 29 May at the Hanneline farm in Limpopo.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
German dairy farmers win producer price war – while SA industry bleeds
The German dairy strike is over after 10 days of withholding milk.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
International food summit doesn’t live up to expectations
The WORLD Food Security Summit in Rome seems to have been only a weak first step towards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's prediction that the world will have to produce 50% more food by 2030 to meet rising demand.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
