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Going bananas for bread

This recipe RELIES ON SWEET FRUIT, which means bananas must verge on over-ripeness.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

The number and profile of potential bidders at an auction is the Achilles' heel of the auction system. The escalating costs of travel and accommodation make it all the more difficult.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Getting on top of bacterial speck in tomatoes

Bacterial speck (psuedomonas syringae) is widespread throughout SA at certain times of the year.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Opportunity knocks Get moving and stop complaining about the noise

'It's tempting to gloat about high food prices and get heated up about stupid politics and ignorant politicians, but this is unproductive. Rather focus on the opportunities that have been created.'
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Bt solving the food shortage situation?

Biotechnology has changed the face of agriculture on a global scale and will continue to do so, says Monsanto's biotechnology manager Kobus Steenkamp. It's been commercially available in SA for 10 years with 57% of our maize being GM maize. But is biotechnology as controversial as it appears? Annelie Coleman reports.
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The labour dilemma

While farmworkers are suffering due to higher inflation, especially food inflation, farmers are also suffering due to the increased input prices. The labour department will have to take both sides into account in its deliberations for the 2009 to 2011 wage determination.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

The land reform balance

Government needs to balance social welfare and land restitution against viable economic principles, says Prof Dirk KotzÃ©, political analyst at Unisa. He was speaking at a recent Agricultural Business Chamber congress where he highlighted the importance of government to view land as an economic entity, not just a social tool, as well as to give organised agriculture a heads-up on who to lobby in the ANC leadership.
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Nature’s money-making potential

Like many other farmers, the Herholdt brothers learnt through bitter experience that it's better to farm with nature than chase high yields with high inputs. Glenneis Erasmus asked Junior Herholdt from the farm Uitkyk in Philadelphia how they have made their farm more profitable.
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Hands-on training for apprentice farmers

By arranging SA and overseas apprenticeships for graduates of a Midlands agricultural college, KZN's Top Dairy Woman of the Year Judy Stuart is giving students the opportunity to launch their farming careers. Robyn Joubert reports.
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Inbreeding threat gets worse in SA

Used wisely, the influence of a star bull can be invaluable, and top genetics are being exported worldwide - at the risk of turning dairy breeds into inbred families plagued by bad health, poor fertility and malformed calves. Robyn Joubert finds out how SA breeders can get peace of mind.
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Boksburg prison teaches inmates to farm

In partnership with the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Boksburg Correctional Services (BCS) has added agriculture to the list of training workshops available to prisoners. Other options include carpentry, textile production, steel production, upholstery and baking.
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Stock theft demands a collective effort

THE POLICE, ANTI-STOCK theft units and farmers must cooperate to combat stock theft, says Captain MS Rute, assistant coordinator of the SA Police Service (SAPS) anti-stock theft department in the Eastern Cape
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New honey co-ops to target organic markets

Beekeepers from Baardskeerdersbos in the Overberg and Riversdale in the southern Cape have joined forces to establish organic honey cooperatives in their respective towns.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Proposed VAT holiday could kill red meat industry

Red Meat Industry Forum chairperson Dave Ford raised concern over agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana's announcement that the presidential working group on agriculture had recommended VAT be scrapped on sorghum, baby foods and chicken.
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The Royal Show’s best carcasses sold at a steal

Despite the history of some of the carcasses at this year's Royal Show Carcass auction, prices fell far short of levels achieved last year.
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Is Karoo hail due to global warming?

An increase in the number of freak weather patterns across the world has researchers scrambling for answers.
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Germans dump milk for better prices

Some 30 000 German dairy farmers are striking and pouring milk down drains to protest declining EU milk prices caused by a 2% increase in production.
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Clover hopes technicality will end milk inquest

The price-fixing investigation into THE milk industry should be dropped because of a technicality, said Clover.
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Agriculture turns a profit despite rate hikes

It's highly likely that interest rates will be increased by 100 basis points in June.
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Zim land grabbers above the law

At 6:30AM on 7 May 2008, NINE SOLDIERS armed with AK47s, metal pipes and sticks arrived at the Grand Parade farm in Karoi North, Zimbabwe, belonging to Andrew Paul Rosslyn Stidolph and his wife and forced them off their land.
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