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Sussex newcomer makes good

Part-time cattle farmer George Potgieter of Pothou Stud in Vredefort combined his razor-sharp business acumen with meticulous record keeping, and some luck, to receive the award for this year's Farmer's Weekly Best Elite Sussex Cow. Chris Nel visited him.
Issue Date: 28 September 2007

South Africa after 2010? on course, says expert, provided…

Despite fingering fiscal policy, labour legislation and infrastructrure as obstacles to growth, Dr Roelof Botha, economic adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers, remains optimistic about the economy. Cornelia du Plooy reports.
Issue Date: 28 September 2007

Registering a carbon reduction project

In the concluding article on carbon trading, Sonja Burger finds out how agribusinesses can register carbon emission reduction projects and earn carbon credits.
Issue Date: 28 September 2007

The platteland in oils and charcoal

Award-winning artist and farm girl Pauline Gutter attempts to capture the essence of Free State rural life through her large oil paintings and charcoal sketches. Today, still in her twenties, her work has been celebrated both locally and internationally. Mike Burgess travelled to the Brandfort family farm to find out what makes her tick.
Issue Date: 28 September 2007

Lean red meat doesn’t increase cholesterol

We've all heard that a good thick steak takes us one step closer to a heart attack, but Glenneis Erasmus finds that new research indicates otherwise.
Issue Date: 28 September 2007

A GOURMET BURGER WITH ONION MARMALADE

Every month or so happiness arrives in a polystyrene box containing a relatively fresh take-away hamburger, runny with mayo, solid with salt, heaped with verlepte chips boiled in very old oil. Itï¿½s just one of the ways I keep in touch with my roots.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Building a maternity room

Prepare the stable carefully for a mare in foal to give her and the youngster the best possible start. Greg Miles
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Farmers and workers, unite!

Anthonie Visagie, Farmworker of the Year 2005, talked to farmers and farmworkers about freeing themselves from the past at the Agri Mega Week Farmworker of the Year competition, recently held in Bredasdorp.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Bell grading the way

A cover story in the 7 September edition of Farmer's Weekly highlighted the desperate state of South Africa's road infrastructure. It's therefore gratifying to see that Equipment, based in Richard's Bay, gained market leadership for July with the Grader, selling 37% of the total of over 70 graders sold that month.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

What keeps black small-scale farmers on crutches?

At the recent Agribusiness Trends Dialogue Teddy Matsetela, chairperson of the Farmers Development Trust, told delegates that 80% of black producers in South Africa are subsistence farmers, 19% are emerging farmers and a mere 1% commercial. The disturbing question is: what is keeping our black subsistence and emerging farmers from going commercial? Wilma den Hartigh reports.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Producing sensational Santa Gertrudis

Craig Marwick of Little Harmony Santa Gertrudis Stud produced this year's Farmer's Weekly-ARC Best Elite Cow. Added to this he has won the Absa-ARC Beef Cattle Improvement Scheme Herd of the Year Award four years in a row. Lloyd Phillips reports.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Trials on hold for GMO chincherinchee

Scientists have boosted the virus resistance of what could be a major floricultural crop with GMO technology, but out-of-lab trials are on hold for now. Lloyd Phillips reports.
Issue Date 21 September 2007

Game ranching at the crossroads

Conservationist, big game hunter, and wildlife author Ron Thomson tells Roelof Bezuidenhout why game ranchers should tear themselves from the claws of the DEAT.
Issue date 14 September 2007

Bacterial bean diseases #2

Common blight and halo blight (7 September) are the two most destructive bacterial bean diseases
Issue date 14 September 2007

Nederburg Auction offers a line-up of superb wines

Once Again The 33rd Nederburg Auction, to be held on 28 and 29 September 2007, has an impressive line-up of superb wines
Issue date 14 September 2007

Dealing with farmers’ fears

In general, white commercial farmers are not against the principle of land reform but have serious concerns about the way in which it is implemented
Issue date 14 September 2007

North Indian chicken and tomato curry

In Anthony Bourdainï¿½s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, the chef and author tells us amateur food mechanics that the big difference between home-cooked and high-class restaurant food is that the latter is loaded with salt and butter
Issue date 14 September 2007

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