Caxton Magazines

In Anthony Bourdain�s 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

Tasty wraps: steak in a sari

'…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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tony Matchett says "no-till" means sowing maize and soya beans directly into the stubble of the previous crop by one pass of the planter. He has achieved great results.

'In a novel way of diversifying from farming, Kevin created Kevard Adventures.'
Issue date 7 September 2007

While the local sugar industry plays a pivotal role in the development and economic life of the country's rural areas, Rodger Stewart, chairperson of the South African Sugar Association, says that more partnerships are needed to expand this role into other spheres of the economy.
Issue date 7 September 2007

Apart from grass-fed cattle emitting far less harmful greenhouse gases than grain-fed cattle, the beef of grass-fed cattle are also nutritionally superior. Wilma den Hartigh asked Graeme Sait, creator of the nutrition farming concept and CEO of Nutri-Tech Solutions, how farmers can adopt their cattle's feed to benefit both their pockets and the environment.
Issue date 7 September 2007

'Cornelis uses higher-grade stainless steel for the irons to ensure longevity.'
Issue date 7 September 2007

Following the lead of Chris Roode of Lichtenburg (Farmer's Weekly, 20 July), Dirk and Frik van Sittert of North West adopted no-till five years ago. Now their yields are up by 0,5t/ha, soil erosion is almost nil and they have swapped four smaller tractors for one larger-kilowatt no-till machine, decreasing labour costs significantly and cutting diesel consumption by 40ℓ/ha. Peter Hittersay writes.
Issue date 7 September 2007

No-till has taken root all around the world, transforming dust bowls into productive land and making cropping practical and economical in areas formally useless for conventional tillage. No-till is getting a lot of publicity as a system for field crops, but for some reason it's not considered for vegetables. Bill Kerr uses no-till to grow magnificent vegetables with a lot less cost and effort and he points out a multitude of advantages - better resistance to pests, superior taste, longer shelf life and a substantial saving in fuel, tractors and implements.
Issue date 31 August 2007

This is an extremely destructive and greatly feared disease of beans
Issue date 7 September 2007

New dynamic recommendations for row width and planting density in Western Cape conservation tillage systems have been developed by key players in agriculture, including Dr Mark Hardy (Western Cape Department of Agriculture), Prof André Agenbag (Department of Agronomy, University of Stellenbosch) and numerous producers who hosted trials over the past five seasons. John Tolmay, the project leader and also senior researcher at the ARC Small Grains Institute, Bethlehem, summarises these guidelines.
Issue date 8 June 2007

The original homestead on our farm was built in 1935. Pressed steel ceilings, Oregon pine floors and tin roof, with an afdak stoep on two sides
Issue date 7 September 2007

Tom Lock, veteran South African champion, did for the pigeon racing fraternity what Mohammed Ali accomplished for boxing and Gary Player did for golf.