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Beefing up Jerseys with Simmentalers

While the Jersey breed produces star dairy cows, its bull calves are dead weight commercially. Pierre Laesecke, 2007 Western Cape Master Dairy Farmer bronze medallist, crossed his Jersey females with Simmentaler bulls, also known as Fleckviehs in other

Jogging is a bad habit

A horse that jogs instead of walks or trots is annoying and makes your ride uncomfortable. And jogging is actually a behavioural problem.
Issue date: 04 April 2008

Expect higher but volatile prices

Farmers can expect higher prices for most products during 2008/09 but will have to guard against high volatility.
Issue date: 04 April 2008

Wildlife ranching enters the digital era

The energy crisis and changing entertainment trends will keep travellers at home, but this need not mean the end of the world for the wildlife industry, says controversial ecologist Ben Breedlove. He told Roelof Bezuidenhout how ranchers can cash in on

Symbols of peace

There are many symbols of peace, but most of them such as the inverted crows-foot of the anti-nuclear movement have negative connotations associated with them. In 1949 Pablo Picasso designed a lithograph of a white dove as an emblem for the International

Wool: Donï¿½t be scared of going finer

The results of a study on two Merino studs in the Karoo clear up many of the mysteries surrounding selection programmes for fine wool. Roelof Bezuidenhout reports.
Issue date: 04 April 2008

Lawnmowing on an industrial scale

Falcon Agricultural Equipment, based in Howick, has a reputation for developing unique machines to meet specific customer needs. Their latest implement is a finishing mower designed especially for the high-speed cutting of sports grounds, golf courses,

Beating worm infestation in communal goat farming

A project in Bergville, KZN, is teaching communal goat farmers to fight wireworm by early detection of worm infestation, culling to improve herd resilience and using low-cost remedies like copper oxide to obtain better production, improved fertility

Pecans minimise ostrich risk

Foresight led Basie Strydom, from the farm Klein Doornrivier in the Klein Karoo, to diversify his farming enterprise from ostriches and Angora goats to pecan nut production. Glenneis Erasmus spoke to him about the years of working on a plan that has provi

Capabilities of provincial Land Affairs need attention

Anthony Evans, who chairs the Rhys Evans Group, a large agribusiness based at Viljoenskroon, Free State, describes his attempts to launch a land reform project in his area, and how he kept running into a bureaucratic wall. This, he says, despite the agric

Limpopo farmers strike a winning tax deal

The new Municipal Property Rates Act has been a bone of contention between farmers and municipalities. Now, after a year and a half of negotiations, farmers and the Lephalale municipal council in Limpopo have drafted a policy document on the way taxes

Giant pumpkins celebrated

Pumpkins reigned supreme at the fifth annual “Goliat van Gat” pumpkin festival held recently at the Pioneer Museum in Pretoria.
Issue date: 04 April 2008

Educating and caring for farmworkers with HIV

HIV/Aids education, prevention and patient care has become a necessity in the agricultural sector with many farmworkers contracting the virus each month.
Issue date: 04 Month 2008

Sun World appoints South African grape marketers

Sun World International, an established US producer and marketer of fresh fruit, recently appointed Green Marketing International (Pty) Ltd in Paarl, Western Cape, as a new local grape marketer.
Issue date - 04 April 2008

Real-time crop production map – a wealth of info

The Department of Agriculture in the Western Cape is developing a near real-time crop production map. The technology will help them, producers and agribusinesses better understand crop dynamics and allow the department to better monitor production and mar

Yield breaks competition record

Dirk Lesch of the farm Elim, just outside Malmesbury, recently won the 2007 Swartland Canola Competition with a yield of 2,32t/ha. He attributed his success to the fact that he doesn’t plant canola merely to add a crop into his rotation plan. “Some farmer

Dordrecht Cheese Factory – closure shocks community

The R7,5 million Dordrecht Cheese Factory was closed on 29 February with financial and operational mismanagement under investigation. Speculation is rife about the reasons for the closure, and whether the factory will be resuscitated or shut down for good

Wool farming gain in communal areas

“To farm successfully today, farmers need knowledge,” Peter Hardie, chairperson of the Eastern Cape’s National Wool Growers Association told the annual congress in Cradock. “Like the motor industry, where researchers are already planning models 10 years a

Hatchery project to stabilise EC broiler chick supply

Emerging broiler farmers in the North-Eastern part of the Eastern Cape have been guaranteed a consistent supply of good quality and reasonably priced day-old broiler chicks after the recent launch of a pilot emerging farming hatchery project in Pietermari

Overberg gets an agricultural forum]

Agricultural roleplayers in the Overberg recently launched the Overberg Agricultural Forum. Their primary aim is to develop a strategy for landownership and black economic empowerment that will uplift and contribute to the rural community.
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