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On-the-clock squid snack

There are times, usually in-between meals, when the stomach cries out for more than just another peanut butter sandwich. And while a peanut butter sandwich is indeed one of the all-time great instant comfort foods, the demanding snacker needs greater complexity when snack time comes up on the internal clock.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Knitbone (comfrey)

Comfrey, also known as “knitbone”, has remarkable healing powers.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Preparing for the racing season

Our South African racing season begins towards the end of May and many fanciers are counting the days, but being too hasty can ruin your season.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Did farmers really evict almost a million people?

"The Nkuzi study probably overstates the prevalence of farm evictions"
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Letter – 27 April 2007

Humane predator deterrents do work
Is there a criminal campaign against food production?
A matter of fact - platteland style!
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Don’t delay any longer – get BEE compliant

Many farmers have adopted a wait-and-see approach to Black Economic Empowerment, hoping it will go away, or waiting for a better time to participate. At the recent Overberg Indaba, Dries Coetsee, MD of Aid Agri, gave reasons why farmers should now get off the fence and become involved.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Business booming for New Holland SA

A YEAR HAS PASSED since the announcement at the 2006 Nampo Agricultural Trade show of Invicta Holdings' acquisition of the South African New Holland agricultural machinery franchise. Since then, despite the negative effect of the drought, the company has announced that business is booming.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Black economic exasperation!

Strawberry farmer John Sandison's plan to sell 36% of his company to 15 black workers has been plagued by hurdles from the Department of Land Affairs, and has turned a BEE opportunity into a bureaucratic nightmare. Robyn Joubert reports.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Turn your slurry into fertiliser and save money

Slurry is difficult to dispose of and poses a threat to people, livestock and the environment. A system operated by Andrew and Liz Williams uses slurry as nutrient-rich organic fertiliser that is cheaper than commercial products. Lloyd Phillips finds out more.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Farmers reject ‘one size fits all’ AgriBEE document

Farmers across the country are unhappy with the minister of agriculture's latest adjustments to the AgriBEE draft document. Good news, however, is that the industry can revert to the generic document set by the Department of Trade and Industry if it does not accept these changes.
Issue date 23 March 2007

Farming the Sotho frontier

Pieter Vermooten farms on the Lesotho border near Ficksburg in the eastern Free State and suffers increasingly crippling losses from theft - but specifically stock theft as control along the Lesotho/South Africa border in the area continues to disintegrate.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

A sad farewell to Prof von Holy

Prof Alex von was a brilliant lecturer and presenter. He had a delightful sense of humour and was capable of holding the attention of senior executives, scientists, students and even shop-floor operators for long periods on end.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

KZN 2007 sheepdog trial champions

The SA Sheepdog ASSOCIATION (SASDA) recently held the first of its seven annual regional trials near Mooi River, KZN where, according to SASDA vice-president Izak Hattingh, approximately 19 handlers and 47 sheepdogs participated.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

E Cape power line to go ahead

The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has accepted the final scoping report and has given the go-ahead for Eskom's Gamma-Grassridge power-line plan to proceed to the impact assessment phase, according to Acer, the environmental management consultants in charge of the project.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

‘Farm fish for the sake of our children’

Children born today may not be able to buy fish by the time they turn 40 because the world's fish stocks will have been depleted.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Project helps emerging farmers go organic

The organic farming industry could provide 100 000 jobs within the next seven years through the Organic Freedom Project (OFP), a newly established non-profit organisation focused on helping developing farmers to farm organically.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Fruit SA’s Industry Plan to boost local fruit sector

Fruit SA presented its strategic framework for the SA fruit industry to the minister of agriculture and land affairs Lulama Xingwana and the deputy minister of trade and industry Elizabeth Thabethe at a recent media session in Pretoria.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Unity is the future, says sugar boss

While the SA sugar industry had already begun embracing the necessity for racial equality and integration within its ranks long before the formation of democratic SA, the process of speeding up this integration since 1994 has been slow.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Next step of FSC’s Plantation Review under way

The Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) an international timber plantation management certification body, has announced the imminent start of the technical phase of the much-publicised FSC Plantations Review.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

Wanted: 1,6 million tons of maize

With the latest Crop Estimates Committee forecast 11% lower than the previous forecast, analysts have warned that SA would almost certainly have to import maize to make up for the shortfall on national demand.
Issue Date 27 April 2007

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