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Managing shortages

'In their operational planning farmers must ensure that they secure the future supply of strategic requisites.'
Issue date 24 August 2007

Tierhoek organic jams it up

With just one season under its belt, Tierhoek's Organic apricot jam and peach jam were declared winners in the category of the recent Sunday Times Good Taste Awards 2007.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Farmer’s wife to tackle ‘Comrades of cycling’

South Africa's farming community will showcase its cycling talent in France when Tonia Cason - a 51-year-old farmer's wife, mother of two boys and primary school teacher from Mpumalanga - participates in the 16th Paris-Brest-Paris Randonneur event from 20 to 24 August 2007.
Issue Date:24 August 2007

Local wine workers jet-setting to France

Three members of the Graham Beck Wines team, Sylvia Booysen, Johanna Johannes and Sanette Piedt, were recently selected to attend a wine exchange programme in Beaune, France.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Rescuing SA’s ‘dirty’ wool clip

A report compiled by Cape Wools warns that wool contaminated due to poor shed management damages the reputation of the South African clip and can result in big claims against buyers or processors.
Issue Date:24 August 2007

Milk producers and government forge stronger ties

A large upper-management delegation from the National Department of Agriculture (DoA) has assured South Africa's beleaguered milk production sector that the department will work closely with it in future to guarantee the sustainability of the country's milk supply.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

WORLD NEWS – 24 August 2007

UK outbreak of FMD under control
Sheep taught to lay off grapes
Imprison a bull
Issue Date 24 August 2007

R4,7 million for dirty water research

The Water Research Commission has made R4,7 million available to the Department of Food Science at the University of Stellenbosch for research into the relationship between irrigation water quality and food safety.

Massive turnaround plan

Last week Farmer's Weekly exposed how the Eastern Cape's Massive Food Programme degenerated into large-scale looting of the public purse. Now the province's agriculture department has circulated a candid report among its managers on the scheme's shortcomings and how efforts to fix them are bearing fruit. But as Stephan Hofstätter reports, dodgy contractors are trying to derail the reform drive as it makes it harder for them to rip off government.
Issue Date:24 August 2007

Africa News – 24 August 2007

Dismal wheat harvest in Zim
Donkeys sold as beef
Fighting disrupts Kenya's farmers
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Afma fights for cheap feed

The Animal Feed Manufacturers Association (Afma) wants a reduction in regulatory costs that are harming the competitiveness of the animal feed industry. De Wet Boshoff, Afma general manager, said they wanted the safeguard duty on the importation of lysine [an amino acid that limits milk production] and the import duty of 6,6% on soya oilcake removed.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Two arrested for ‘poacher’ death

Two farmers were arrested recently after the decomposed body of Richard Mkhari was found tied to a tree on Vygeboom farm near Phalaborwa in Limpopo. C ommunity members from the settlement of Gravelotte made the gruesome find and led police to the scene, said Limpopo police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Motlafela Mojapelo.
Issue Date:24 August 2007

‘Human tsunami’ turns Musina into a boom town

Bread sales at the Musina Superspar have gone from 1 500 loaves a day to 3 500. is just one example of booming food sales in this Limpopo town near the Zimbabwe border over the past eight weeks. O f all the grocery stores in town, the is situated closest to the Zimbabwean border and manager Pieter Koekemoer said business is booming.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Lions maul farmworker

Farmworker Johannes Molemi's bodily remains were found on Shambala Private Reserve near Vaalwater in Limpopo after he was apparently killed by lions.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Govt refutes W’spruit radioactivity

Radioactive pollutants have contaminated crops and livestock in the Wonderfonteinspruit area southwest of Johannesburg, and physicists have warned of severe health impacts.
Issue Date: 24 August 2007

Specialised kit to customise quads

The QM-0423 high-pressure towed sprayer, manufactured by QuadMaster of Merrivale, is hga recent addition to the range of quad bike equipment
Issue date 24 August 2007

compromise on cotton subsidy?

The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) proposed compromise texts on agriculture are good news for the cotton industry. A specific treatment for cotton under all three pillars of the agriculture negotiations, namely tariffs, domestic subsidies and export support, has been proposed in which more than 80% of cotton subsidies would be slashed to a third of the normal implementation period.
Issue date:24 August 2007

‘Corruption buster’ to head KZN Agriculture

Promises to turn around the dismal state of affairs at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of and Environmental Affairs (DAEA) are gradually being fulfilled, with the appointment of a purported “corruption buster” as the new Head of Department. According to the department's MEC Mtholephi Mthimkhulu, on 1 August Advocate Modidima Mannya took over as of Department from Siddiq Adam
Issue date 17 August 2007

Home victory for Elsenburg

The annual Pannar Rugby week for agricultural colleges took place at the College in Stellenbosch recently
Issue date 17 August 2007

Eskort celebrates 90 years, new CEO

On 17 July 2007 it was exactly 90 years since a group of eight farmers from the Natal Midlands opened a pork factory on the banks of the Boesmans River in Estcourt
Issue date 17 August 2007

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