Caxton Magazines

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

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

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

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

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

Farmers who are progressive when it comes to the innovative use of energy are invited to enter the agricultural category of the Eskom-sponsored ETA Awards
Issue date 17 August 2007

Southern Africa's biodiversity conservation targets are to get a boost in early September when the final fence between South Africa's uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site and Lesotho's Sehlabathebe Park is dropped to form the region's fifth Transfrontier Park
Issue date 17 August 2007

From 1 August the benefits of the All Cluster Wild - which gives tour guides access to South African National Parks (SANParks), Msinsi Resorts and Reserves and Big Game Parks of Swaziland - were extended to include KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, excluding parks under the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park authority

A call has been put out by MEC of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, Mtholephi Mthimkhulu, urging all dog owners in the province to ensure that their dogs are vaccinated against rabies every year
Issue date 17 August 2007

The spirit of ukusisa, principle of sharing with those less fortunate, was celebrated last week when Sanganer cattle breeders and commercial farmers loaned cattle worth R200 000 to 16 emerging farmers from Ermelo in Mpumalanga
Issue date 17 August 2007

The recent launch of the first-ever traditional recipe book in KwaZulu-Natal is set to improve food security in the country by demonstrating how to make nutritious food from cheaper and widely available traditional crops and wild plants
Issue date 17 August 2007

On 21 July Absa and the Pinotage Association (PA) renewed their commitment to each other by signing a five-year sponsorship of R1 million per year
Issue date 17 August 2007

The South African Wine Industry Council (Sawic), after almost four years of intensive consultation and deliberation between representatives of all major industry stakeholders, has finally approved the Wine BEE Transformation Charter and will submit the document to government for adoption as a 12 charter
Issue date 17 August 2007

German dairy price skyrockets

Issue date 17 August 2007

An international bank says New Zealand is best placed to capitalise on the global dairy boom
Issue date 17 August 2007

The Milk Producers' Organisation (MPO) has requested the minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs to maintain statutory measures (registration of milk producers and the submission of records and returns) in the milk industry
Issue date 17 August 2007

Despite enormous agricultural potential the Eastern Cape remains a net importer of food staples. The government launched the Massive Food Programme to turn this situation around, but with little effect. Farmer's Weekly can now reveal land still lies fallow because this money became easy pickings for tractor mafias and fraudsters who systematically looted the state coffers with the help of corrupt farmers and officials. Stephan Hofstätter uncovers the Massive Fraud Programme, and government's efforts to clean up the mess.
Issue date 17 August 2007

July tractor sales of 443 units were almost 23% lower than the 573 units sold in July last year
Issue date 17 August 2007

In light of the flood of people crossing the Zimbabwe border illegally, Dries Joubert, chairperson of TAU SA North, has reiterated the organisation's policy that no members should employ any illegal immigrant

Only six of more than 100 cases will be re-opened against farmers accused of abusing their workers in Mpumalanga's southern Highveld area
Issue date 17 August 2007