Caxton Magazines

'Listing all the jobs you face is a good start, but it's not enough. Allocate each job a priority.'
Issue Date: 4 May 2007

A tea with a uniquely South African taste will be produced in Limpopo before the end of the year, agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana announced at a land reform imbizo near Thohoyandou recently.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Racing pigeon auctions are held all over the world. Besides regular local auctions are the international ones, where fanciers bid via the Internet or the telephone. Many beginners and struggling fanciers remember a golden moment when valuable birds they bought at an auction placed them on the road to success.
Issue Date: 4 May 2007

'The local fertiliser industry managed to limit price increases… Feed prices show a different trend.'

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Programme (SKEP) have invited proposals to access CEPF grant funding for the implementation of biodiversity conservation projects in the Succulent Karoo.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Kwanalu has expressed much concern about the rating of farmland and has appealed to municipalities and provincial government to consider the economic impact of inappropriate regulations and an irresponsible approach.
Issue Date: 4 May 2007

Barloworld Equipment Agriculture, South African distributor of Massey Ferguson and Challenger products, will showcase the latest high-performance technology at this year's Nampo Show. Joe Spencer profiles some of their new models.
Issue Date: 4 May 2007

Warning bells are sounding in the Kruger National Park, where levels of major rivers such as the Crocodile, Olifants and Letaba are “alarmingly” low.
Issue date 4 May 2007

In 1997, emerging female farmer Anita Morar decided to turn her hobby of growing chillies into a small-scale farming operation. Today her business Anita's Veg supplies this little hot vegetable to many supermarket and retail outlets. Wilma den Hartigh reports.
Issue Date: 4 May 2007

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Programme (SKEP) have invited proposals to access CEPF grant funding for the implementation of biodiversity conservation projects in the Succulent Karoo.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Naturally exuberant farmer Tabs Fox of Weltevreden farm in Ficksburg is so excited about the success he has achieved with sericia lespedeza - commonly referred to as poor man's lucerne - that he has increased the area he plants to this perennial legume from 20ha to over 100ha in five years. Because of its hardy nature, it's a must plant crop for frost- and drought-prone areas.
Issue Date: 4May 2007

Disadvantaged children from KwaZulu-Natal's townships and areas adjacent to provincial conservation areas will soon be aware of the benefits of conserving nature and supporting environmentally protected areas, through a Kids and Parks Programme (KaPP) launched by provincial conservation body Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Twenty emerging farmers from Namibia recently attended a three-day course on strategic management in agriculture at Grootfontein, Namibia, presented by Dr Wim Nell of the University of the Free State's Centre for Agricultural Management.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Friday the 13th was a lucky day for National Zoological Gardens of South Africa as it was awarded the coveted Tshwane Tourism Award for 2007 in the category of Serviced Attractions.
Issue date 4 May 2007

The Milk Producers' Organisation (MPO) HAS appointed Etienne Terre'Blanche as new managing director. Previously, Terre'Blanche was co-owner and director of Brent Chemicals in the Western Cape.
Issue date 4 May 2007

The British are taking a walk on the wild side, with sales of game meat soaring 46% between 2004 and 2006 to reach £57 million (R814 million) last year.
Issue date 4 May 2007

By creating various timber beneficiation operations close to the plantations, PG Bison's R1,3 billion North Eastern Cape Forestry Cluster (NECF) development at Ugie is set to create just short of 3 000 direct jobs.
Issue date 4 May 2007

A large maize production initiative is on the cards for the Eastern Cape. Dumisa Dlatu, one of the businessmen spearheading the project, said it will stimulate much-needed socioeconomic development in the province, in particular the Wild Coast and former Transkei areas.
Issue date 4 May 2007

Ripening sorghum in the former Transkei is targeted by a variety of seed-eating birds. Emerging farmers have come up with a simple and cost-effective way to combat this threat.
Issue date 4 May 2007

The MEC for Agriculture and Environmental Affairs in KZN Mtholephi Mthimkhulu has called in the assistance of the Provincial Treasury and Department of Public Service and Administration to help rescue his beleaguered department from the effects of alleged corruption and mismanagement that have plagued it under the reins of Dr Jabulani Mjwara, head of department. In an official press release, Mthimkhulu said that alongside consultations held with the KZN premier S'bu Ndebele on the state of the KZN agriculture department, the assisting state organs would help to implement a number of “change actions”.
Issue date 4 May 2007