Janine Ryan
I am the editor of agricultural magazine Farmer’s Weekly, South Africa's oldest magazine. Farmer's Weekly focuses on providing role players in the agriculture sector with news and information to help them grow their enterprises.
Livestock Disease Trends – August 2013
Introduction and summary of diseases and other conditions during August 2013.
Fish farming: affordable protein for SA?
South Africa’s only marine finfish farm on the Atlantic coastline has just entered the commercial market. Manager and shareholder of the Bluecap fish farm in Paternoster, Ingo Beckert, says fish farming is South Africa’s answer to protein provision for the future. Jay Ferreira reports.
A new look at cane loading
Compaction caused by in-field loading operations is raising concern in the sugarcane industry. Joe Spencer reports.
The strange history of the butternut
The butternut has a most unlikely origin. It was bred by a Charles Leggett of Stow, Massachusetts, in the USA in the mid-1940s. He was not a plant breeder, but had been forced to leave the city for the country because of his father’s health.
Mugabe – a renowned sire
Despite the harsh economic climate, the wallets came out when Johan and Mark King recently auctioned some of their racing pigeons, says Thomas Smit.
Horses – crib biting and windsucking
This all-too-common behaviour leads to poor condition, colic and stomach ulcers, cautions Dr Mac
KZN police arrest farm attack suspects within 2 days
All five suspects allegedly involved in the attack and robbery of an as-yet-unnamed 63-year-old Bergville farmer and his 60-year old wife were arrested within two days of the crime thanks to a determined joint effort between SAPS structures and community-based organisations.
Early spike in KwaZulu-Natal farm attacks
The number of farm attacks and farm murders in KwaZulu-Natal so far in 2013, with two murders and 23 attacks taking place in the first five months of the year, were higher than for the same period last year, which saw one murder and 14 attacks.
African aquaculture grows 83% in 10 years
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, with a growth rate of 5,6%. Farmed fish topped beef farming globally for the first time in 2012, with 66 million tons of fish produced, compared with 63 million tons of beef.
Be an African optimist
The growing African market provides numerous opportunities for South African agriculture.
Steak with a Coke, soy & Worcestershire basting
Steak, in my singular view, should be redefined as a staple. While bread and even mealie meal have their place, a well-aged piece of prime beef is very difficult to top. Grilling a steak is one of the most straightforward cooking “techniques” known to man. Yet despite this self-evident truth, it is still possible for the neophyte to mess it up.
Garlic mayo dressing
The standard Anglo-Saxon has great trouble with garlic. He fears social isolation as the inevitable consequence of even one tiny scrap of this marvellous bulb. If you or your friends fall into this category of flat-earth diners, stop reading right now and skip to the golf page or maybe the Hitching Post.
Chickpea, brinjal and tomato bake
There comes a time in the affairs of seasoned braaivleis mechanics when the palate cries out for something more adventurous than stywe pap or baked potatoes to accompany the steak, chops and wors. What we have here is a great side dish to any braai, which has the additional virtue of being a good standalone meal, especially with a chunk of fresh bread. Making this dish requires a minor addition to your culinary skills, all of which adds real value to your cooking repertoire.
Roast potatoes
Most roast potatoes play small-time supporting roles to the real stars of roasting: beef, poultry, lamb and pork. Like the extras in crowd scenes, they have little or no individual identities, yet their absence would be sorely felt. Here’s a chance to give roast potatoes the big close-up they have long been denied. Are you ready Miss Potato? Lights! Camera! Action!
Fouriesburg fire still raging
The veld fire between Senekal, Rosendal and Fouriesburg that started earlier was still burning by 10 o’clock this morning.
Thick lamb chops with syrup, Scotch & ginger
There are men who regard the concept of cooking with Scotch as sacrilegious. Anything that takes so long to mature and costs so much money can’t and shouldn’t be used as a flavouring agent by braai mechanics.
Marinated chicken tenderloins
Most unusually for this kitchen, which believes in skin-on, bone-in chicken portions, a pack of deboned, skinned chicken breasts lay on the counter, en route to becoming a stir-fry. Close examination reveals that such a cut included not one, but two distinct sections: the breast proper, and a little fillet, appropriately named the tenderloin. Something as perfectly formed as this deserves special attention, served as a hot starter or chilled on a roll stuffed with salad.
Bistecca alla Fiorentina! One hell of a steak!
This Florentine-styled T-bone steak dish uses beef sourced from the region’s Chianina breed of cattle. In the world of steaks few can equal a T-bone cut from a Chianina side of beef as this large cattle breed’s meat is revered, and rightly so! Here’s how to make the most of your T-bone...
North West declared a disaster area
The North West Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (NW DARD) has processed more than 19 000 applications for financial assistance after the province was recently declared a disaster area.
SA and US discuss stronger trade relations
Deputy minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dr Pieter Mulder recently met with the US Department of Agriculture’s deputy secretary, Krista Harden in Pretoria.
- ADVERTISEMENT -
- ADVERTISEMENT -
MUST READS
- ADVERTISEMENT -
