Is Karoo hail due to global warming?

An increase in the number of freak weather patterns across the world has researchers scrambling for answers.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

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.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Clover hopes technicality will end milk inquest

The price-fixing investigation into THE milk industry should be dropped because of a technicality, said Clover.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Agriculture turns a profit despite rate hikes

It's highly likely that interest rates will be increased by 100 basis points in June.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

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.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

DA withdraws from Expropriation Bill hearings

The public consultations on the Expropriation Bill that are currently underway are so deeply flawed that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has been left with no choice but to withdraw from the process.
Issue date : 13 June 2008

Denorco celebrated 2anniversaries at Nampo

South African firm Denorco used Nampo 2008 to celebrate two milestones in the company's history - 60 years since the introduction of Mono pumps, and 30 years of showing at this prestigious annual show. Joe Spencer reports.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Protecting grasslands

What's left of our pristine grasslands is under threat, now more than ever. Drastic steps need to be taken to protect them, writes Cameron McMaster.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

townie – wired for sound

Going deaf is not something you want to admit to. I rank it alongside senility and Alzheimer's. But was constantly being asked to turn the sound down on the TV and in conversations around the dinner table or in a room full of people all talking simultaneously, could only pick up half of what the person next to me was saying.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

ANTS – The power of solidarity

When a cold wind started to blow down the river in the direction of the sea, my whole body started to shiver violently. I was soaking wet and frozen to the bone. had been sitting up to my shirt pockets in the river's cold, dark water for at least five hours. Midnight was hardly more than an hour away. Like startled fireflies the few distant lights could see started to go out one by one.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Butter chicken with a chilli kick

Issue date: 06 June 2008

What’s with the long face?

Even though the heading for this week's column is humorous, it's not actually funny if your horse has paralysis of the facial nerve. But it's a fairly common ailment and can be slight or very dramatic.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Late blight the fungus on fast forward

Panic ensues if a tomato grower discovers late blight (Phytophthora infestans) on his crop. It can destroy an entire crop in a couple of days if weather conditions are favourable, while other fungus diseases at least start off gradually, giving the farmer enough time to get them under control.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Top production is driven by top technology

'What are you doing to keep up with technology? Are you simply taking it as it comes, or do you have a plan which ensures you and your team are up to speed?'

Keeping your pigeons healthy

Sick Racing Pigeons can't produce healthy offspring and sick pigeons in a loft put other lofts at risk of contamination. Keeping our pigeons healthy is everybody's business.

Capitalists produce food for profit, not need

Capitalism leads to a situation where enough food is produced, yet poor people can't afford to buy it. So says Cosatu's national spokesperson, Patrick Craven. He says the time has come for the government to regulate food prices, because food price-fixing scandals have shown that market forces can't prevent profiteering at the expense of the poor. Annelie Coleman reports.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Blood, sweat & tears by koos coetzee

Chances are good the Reserve Bank will increase interest rates again in June. Farmers would do well to use this year's higher income to reduce their debt.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Pannar plans another 50 years of quality

The SA-based Pannar Group celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Having grown into an internationally recognised, quality commercial seed producer and supplier of other agri-inputs, Pannar is already planning ahead for the next 50 years. MD Deon van Rooyen, reviews past highlights and gives his take on the future of his company.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Swartland Canola Farmer of the year

Dirk Lesch is the 2007 Swartland Canola Farmer of the Year with an average yield of 2,32t/ha and the best gross margins of R5 957/ha on his farm, 12km outside Malmesbury. Wouter Kriel writes.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Inspiration to new farmers – Jacob Mphafudi

North West province cattleman Jacob Leburu Mphafudi rebounded after his first herd was wiped out by poison leaf, to become the 2007 Pick 'n Pay/Landbouweekblad Emerging Breeder of the Year. He now farms with 750 cows on two separate farms and holds a series of awards for conservation as well as his quality cattle, writes Peter Mashala.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

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