Caxton Magazines

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

After several unanswered phone calls a Louis Trichardt (Makhado) citizen rushed to the fire department one evening recently to alert firefighters about a fire in the town
Issue date 17 August 2007

The dangers of working with heavy farm machinery were once again spotlighted by the tragic death of a tractor driver at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs' (DAEA) Cedara Agricultural Research Farm
Issue date 17 August 2007

Concerned the food shortages that might arise if maize farmers produce maize for ethanol, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni implored Free State farmers to stick to food production, saying SA should follow Brazil's example and produce ethanol from sugarcane
Issue date 17 August 2007

Pork producers no longer have to worry about European swine fever as stringent measures have proven successful in containing and, in some areas, eradicating it.
Issue date 17 August 2007

The SA government has confirmed that until further notice, no veterinary import permits would be issued for cloven-hoofed animals and products derived therefrom originating from the UK
Issue date 17 August 2007