Caxton Magazines
Spend a thrilling weekend at Sun City
The Sun City Million-Dollar Pigeon race boasts one of the most picturesque venues in the world
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
Managing forex risk: a toolbox
Have you read The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman? It's full of examples of the way modern communication technology has torn down the barriers between countries and people, levelling the playing field
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
Run sustainable, dual-purpose sheep
oelof Bezuidenhout reviews an on-farm trial in the southern Free State, showing that the Smithfield district best supports dual-purpose sheep, and that switching between breeds doesn't guarantee long-term benefits.
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
Worrying input price trends
Compared to Last year, Producer prices are currently favourable. According to Agrimark Trends, they increased 20,4% between the first quarters of 2006 and 2007, while the price of farm requisites only increased by 5,25%. Thus farmers are better off than a year ago
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
Everyone wins with game
A new study confirms that not only do private game reserves in the Eastern Cape contribute to conservation and development, they can also beat traditional farming in income per hectare and support more jobs. Roelof Bezuidenhout reports.
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
What is ‘indigenous’ anyway?
Almost 40 years ago when I was still a student, I encountered a particularly colourful but unfamiliar snake, with orange and black bands and a jet-black belly, in the former Transkei
Issue date 17 August 2007
Issue date 17 August 2007
The ups and downs of vertical hydroponics
Hydroponic production only really came into existence in the 1930s, making a name for itself during the Second World War when it was used in the Pacific Islands to grow food for soldiers.
Making the rain, and making it better
'Minute molecules go right to where they're needed, giving impressive results.'
Morningdew Farms and Afgri, together at Delmas
Morningdew Farms and Afgri's Delmas branch held a well-attended joint demonstration at one of Jannie Neuhoff's farms, Hadeda's Garden Estates.
Grooming SA farmers for European markets
A Danish businessman's tenacity and the commitment of a group of local emerging farmers have built up a thriving commercial business that enables its producers to compete on European markets. So successful is this enterprise that its 30 current members' yield for this season is worth an estimated R72 million.
Vulture massacre – mutimen attack
SA's vultures are facing extinction due to a roaring, yet unsustainable, vulture trade, with the birds being harvested quicker than they can breed. At this rate, species such as the white-backed, white-headed and lappet-faced vultures will no longer exist in 10 to 30 years. The Endangered Wildlife Trust gives its view.
Blyde River – the inside story
Now that the dust has settled over the dispute between Rand Merchant Bank and Marulaneng (Hoedspruit) farmers over payment for a state-of-the-art pipeline, the region is quietly prospering. Stephan Hofstätter unpacks the deal both sides agreed to live with.
Brahman: golden celebration for a golden breed
The Brahman celebrated its 50th year in SA at Maselspoort near Bloemfontein on 30 March where the book Brahman, the Intelligent Choice: 50 years in South Africa was launched
Issue date 10 August 2007
Issue date 10 August 2007
Dordrecht’s battle against savage stock thieves
Beyers Van Rooyen of Naauwpoort farm in Dordrecht is one of many farmers in the area whose livestock is regularly raided by stock thieves.
Smallstock farmers have their day in Limpopo
Settlers smallstock farmer Raymond Read's dream of sharing his knowledge and skills with the emerging and small livestock farmers in the area came to fruition at a farmers' day held on his farm last month
Issue date 10 August 2007
Issue date 10 August 2007
Top farmer is also woman of the year
Linda Ngatshane, last year's Female Farmer of the Year, has been crowned the Shoprite-Checkers/SABC 2 Woman of the Year for 2007
Issue date 10 August 2007
Issue date 10 August 2007
Records fly at Mequatling Angus sale
Mequatling Bardolena Kinkaid achieved the highest price in South Africa for a Black Angus cow when she was sold to Mike Charters from Copelands Beef in Ugie for R100 000
Issue date 10 August 2007
Issue date 10 August 2007
When the old man was a boy
The battle between land and sea has taken place since the time the world began. The clash of wave against rock has always fascinated me in a way I can't explain. It has been like that since I was a little boy. Engulfed in the smell of fish and the cries of seagulls circling around me, I was spellbound by the big swell that gently rolled in from afar.
three minute fish � for gourmets
It is not cheap, but boy, is it delicious.
Feng Shui for horses
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of positioning the things around us so that we are in greater harmony with our environment.
