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Turning wine into water

If Lutzville Vineyards can get their waste water to meet government quality standards for irrigation, they can turn 8ha of Matzikama municipality wasteland into farmland. Production manager Johan Schreuder spoke to Wouter Kriel.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

‘Export for jobs,’ says Harvard group of economists

In 2005 the National Treasury appointed an international advisory panel known as the Harvard group of economists to help identify binding constraints on shared growth, and propose policies to overcome them and monitor development. a recently released report of their findings, the group warned that the growth acceleration seen since 2004 may not be sustainable.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Make the most of wine shows

AT a Wine Cellars SA meeting held in Stellenbosch recently, it was agreed that wine exhibitions are one of the most powerful marketing tools and can be as successful as whiskey exhibitions have been.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Tractors sell like hot cakes as rand weakens

Agricultural machinery sales for April reflect the strong demand for new equipment. April sales of tractors into the market, excluding export sales, were 660 units, more than double the 288 units sold in April last year. On a year-to-date basis, tractor sales were almost 68% up on last year. This is according to Charles van Niekerk, chairperson of the South African Agricultural Machinery Association.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Free State gets SMME training facility

The national Department of Agriculture (DoA) has appointed the Centre for Agricultural Management in the Department of Economics at the University of the Free State (UFS) to roll out a model for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) for farmers.

‘Land a millstone around beneficiaries’ necks’

According to CDE executive director Ann Bernstein, the country now faces two depressing scenarios: “nobody wins” or “everyone loses”.“The future of South African commercial...

Cosatu shelves food strike plans

Cosatu's plans for rolling mass action to protest escalating food prices were shelved after a meeting on 25 April between Cosatu, Business Unity South Africa and the government.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Production slides as state ignores agriculture

Many of the comModities imported into South Africa over the past year could have been produced locally. This is according to Prof Johan Willemse from the University of the Free State's Department of Agricultural Economics.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Eskom’s tariff structure like apples and pears

While Eskom waits for a decision from the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa), on its request for a 53% electricity price increase, new information has emerged which shows uneven charging of tariffs between large industrial and commercial users compared with residential and rural customers.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Lulu says the Land Bank shambles is over

Land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana promised parliament that the rudderless Land Bank will have an executive team in place by early next month that will bring an end to the shambles at the embattled parastatal.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Top dollar to spin doctors but peanuts for vets

Advertisements placed in weekend newspapers as part of the agriculture department's recently announced recruitment drive raise serious misgivings about its priorities.
Issue date: 23 May 2008

Tozi Gwanya:Farming’s fate in his hands

Tozi Gwanya was appointed director general of Land Affairs last month. The position carries considerable weight. The fate of all SA's land programmes, including privatising communal land, finalising land claims, transferring a third of white-owned farms to blacks and implementing tenure security laws for farmworkers, lies in his hands. Stephan HofstÃ¤tter reveals the man behind the public face of SA's top land bureaucrat.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

Powdery mildew is often misdiagnosed

We generally associate fungal diseases with moist conditions, but powdery mildew is an exception. Hot, dry conditions promote the development of this pathogen.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

Angus Buchan’s Mighty Men’s Conference 2008 – Faith for farmers in turmoil

In 2003, world-renowned farmer and preacher Angus Buchan attracted a mere 240 men to his Mighty Men's Conference on his Greytown farm. This year, about 60 000 men from around the world attended the conference with one goal in common: to receive God's wisdom and go home with hope for these difficult times. Lloyd Phillips was there.
Issue date : 16 May 2008

Sparta Group – A family-run business worth millions

The Sparta Group is a family-owned enterprise which has grown from a humble 30 cattle to 50 000, employs 1 000 people, contributes R3 million monthly to the Free State economy and has become the leading supplier of beef and beef products in the Free State. Annelie Coleman reports.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

Thoughts on the Horse of the Year

"Went to bed at midnight and was up at 3:30am to get the horses loaded," the chap who had parked his horse trailer next to us said. He'd heard us griping about early rising to make the First Class at the Horse of the Year show in Kyalami.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

Black Economic Empowerment: not only the transfer of land

Afgri Farming has come up with an innovative way of addressing BEE. Instead of redistributing land, they have developed a new model to put land already owned by blacks back into productive use. Sharon Gotte reports.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

New Expropriation Bill hysteria

Reaction to the new Expropriation Bill being debated by parliament has so far verged on hysteria.Critics are calling it an ominous assault on property rights that undermines the separation of powers between the judiciary and executive, and a precursor to Zimbabwean-style land grabs. Our land reform expert Stephan HofstÃ¤tter takes stock.
Issue date: 16 May 2008

Red-fleshed revolution

Dutch company NFG is offering a red-fleshed apple with more antioxidants, to go with their new pear cultivars. Robyn Joubert reports.
Issue date : 16 May 2008

Are you more than just a producer?

The third annual Eat In RMB Private Bank South African Produce Awards is asking the public to nominate producers, stores, foodies, home industries, food technologists and farmers who are "quietly refining the art of creating and innovating in the food industry".
Issue Date 16 May 2008

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