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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

Handheld food: The saga continues

Tasty wraps: steak in a sari

Mealie pap diesel

'…you must realise that petroleum produces about 1,5 times more energy than ethanol, so ultimately you'll work at a loss.'
Issue date 14 September 2007

Saving power by increasing efficiency

The Power Saving Company, based in Midrand, has just released remarkable electricity saving technology onto the South African market
Issue date 14 September 2007

To Ukraine with love

Pouncing on an opportunity to export equipment to the Ukraine, UK company AGCO Implements partnered up with Purest Taste, Mpumalanga manufacturer and supplier of Stansapro spraying equipment. Peter Hittersay spoke to AGCO's Cameron McKenzie and Purest Taste's Stephen Oberholzer.
Issue date 14 September 2007

Broad vision creates a fruitful enterprise

On his fruit farm Lushof outside Ceres, Robert Graaff balances shrewd economic judgement, sound knowledge of international trends and a commitment to empowering his workers. Glenneis Erasmus spoke to this Young Farmer finalist.
Issue date 14 September 2007

Building a chicken empire

Over the past 15 years, broiler breeders Anca have climbed the supply chain, turning themselves into a distributor with a chain of stores across the Eastern Cape while expanding their original operation as a fresh chicken supplier. Mike Burgess reports on how a giant grew out of a few corrugated-iron sheds.
Issue date 14 September 2007

Would YOU invest in SA agribusiness?

Farming has become agribusiness, and like any other sector focuses on top dollar and bottom line. The recent Agribusiness Trends Dialogue forum placed investor confidence in the sector and the competitiveness of South African agribusinesses under the spotlight, targeting agricultural economists, finance and marketing managers, food processors, commodities traders and others. Wilma den Hartigh reviews the comments of some key speakers.

Biodiesel: conversations about future fuel

The University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, in conjunction with the University's Bioenergy Research Group, hosted a biodiesel workshop at the Ukulinga research farm in Pietermaritzburg in August

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