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Hard work pays off for Karoo farmworker

Koos Meiring from the farm Diepkloof in Barandas has won the Klein Karoo's Farm Worker of the Year Competition.
Issue date:06 June 2008

Something’s rotten in Philadelphia

There's a bad smell hanging over the Koeberg area in the Western Cape where human waste is being used as compost by some farmers in the Philadelphia district, breeding flies and, some claim, poisoning local water supplies. While farmers and the waste management company say everything is being done according to the book, Wouter Kriel investigates and finds there may be merit in some of the complaints.
Issue date : 06 June 2008

Potato hectarage expected to decline further

The drastic increases in producer input costs will result in even fewer potatoes being planted this year.
Issue date:06 June 2008

Website lures city slickers to the platteland

A country recruitment website is offering urbanites an alternative to life in the fast lane.
Issue date: 06 June 2008

The Expropriation Bill roadshow carries little weight

Organised agriculture and human rights organisations have raised their concern that the provincial public hearings for the proposed Expropriation Bill, which seeks to replace the Act of 1975, are being manipulated by the Department of Public Works to facilitate the speedy passing of the Bill through parliament.
Issue date: 06 June 2008

Maize surplus set to leave SA shores

"The maize price has to increase from its current R1 800/t to R3 000/t for farmers to remain profitable," said Abie van der Walt, chairperson of Agri Africa Trust.
Issue date: 06 June 2008

Caveman cooking – meat on twigs

Intuition tells me that roasting bits of meat on twigs is probably one of the oldest cooking methods in existence. My wife Jenny, who is probably one of the best cooks in the entire world including Outer Space, occasionally makes kebabs on fresh rosemary branches - the effect is delicious! But for all of us aspiring chefs, let me suggest you give this very fine marinade a go.

Fight early blight right from the first round ARC’s do-it-yourself biogas manu

The Agricultural Research Council's (ARC) Institute for Agricultural Engineering has manuals available for the design, building and operations of biogas equipment, updated in January 2008.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

Fight early blight right from the first round

Early blight (Alternaria solani) is one of the most well-known tomato diseases and one of the easiest to identify. It produces concentric spots of about 10mm on leaves and stems, which is why it's also called target spot. When it occurs on stems, the rings become elongated.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

Two things people want more than sex & money

'Managers who build winning teams are highly sensitive to success and less sensitive to failure. They are quick to compliment and slow to criticise.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

The champion fancier Cassie Matthee

In his pigeon career of over 37 YEARS, Cassie Matthee has been crowned Club Champion no less than 27 times and won the Point's League Union Championships 12 times. has also won the long-distance points champion trophy in 30 of his 37 years of pigeon racing.

Optimism from new FNB agri chief

"Higher interest rates are expected until the end of next year, after which they should decrease in accordance to lower inflation, followed by an increase in economic growth. A gradual weakening of the rand/dollar exchange is also expected." So says Louis van der Merwe FNB's new head of agriculture. Annelie Coleman reports.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

High food prices – who is to blame?

The current high food prices are largely caused by external factors. However government is also to blame - they failed to protect and develop commercial agriculture and only focused on transformation.

HIV/Aids: The rise of the non-infected

Analyst Dr Jan du Plessis, of Intersearch Strategic Management Intelligence, says the HIV/Aids pandemic threatens to turn private businesses into society's only pockets of expertise and skills, as it decimates our population.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

Conservation through trophy-hunting records

Richard Flack, son of well-known hunter Peter Flack and marketing director of the publisher Rowland Ward, gives an overview of the publisher's title Records of Big Game, and its spirit and conservation role in the modern hunting world.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

Getting Holsteins to live longer

Genetic progress has increased SA Holstein cows' milk production by more than 17% to about 9 308â„“ per lactation over the past 10 years. But the longevity issue is preventing farmers from realising the full potential of these "supercows". Glenneis Erasmus reports.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

SA can take on Chile’s fruit market

Chile has become a major competitor in the deciduous-fruit market. But with the weakening rand and modern data-flow technology, the South African industry could have a competitive edge on it. Industry experts Dr Mohammed Karaan and Stefan Conradie spoke to Wouter Kriel.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

Blueberries: white elephant or BEE goldmine?

George farmers fear Blue Mountain Berries (above), a giant empowerment farm with 70ha under netting, will end up like nearby Groothoek (right), a prolific vegetable producer which collapsed after being taken over by a workers' co-op - and the taxpayer will have to foot the bailout bill.Stephan HofstÃ¤tter investigates.
Issue date : 30 May 2008

World-class vegetable varieties

International trade fair Fruit Logistica has bestowed innovation awards on two new tomato varieties, and one re-packaged cucumber. Robyn Joubert reports.
30 May 2008

Mycotoxin alert for rural SA

SA's subsistence-farmed grain may be prone to dangerous levels of aflatoxin and fumonisin. A "farm to fork" health check is urgently needed. Roelof Bezuidenhout spoke to Edson Ncube.
Issue date: 30 May 2008

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