Conservation agriculture

Farmer’s Weekly brings you the latest conservation news and updates from South Africa and the rest of world.

Can high-value game improve your veld?

The answer depends on how you manage your animals – and whether you buy a special kind of grazer.

A win,win, win forestry practice

Biological agro-forestry has the potential to treble carrying capacity – and boost profits.

Transforming forestry

Farming timber the biological way and adding cattle will boost your profit.

Turning the conservation tide on the Agulhas Plain

The Nuwejaars Wetland Special Management Area (SMA) is an innovative, farmer-driven solution to balancing commercial farming with conservation. Denene Erasmus visited farmers in the SMA to learn more about this...

Sericea or crown vetch?

Decide for yourself which of these two robust legumes will be best suited to your situation.

Crown vetch – amazing persistence

Crown vetch is a robust legume suitable for many regions in South Africa.

Grazing and burning to maintain biodiversity

In this second part of our series on managing grasslands for biodiversity, grassland ecologist Dr Richard Lechmere-Oertel discusses guidelines and treatments for various systems.

Quagga rebreeding: a success story

Until recently, it was believed that the last quagga died in Amsterdam Zoo in 1883. Today, however, this iconic animal is alive and back in the Western Cape. How was...

Sericea lespedeza: A 30 year learning curve

Lessons learnt from cultivating Sericea lespedeza.

Managing grasslands for biodiversity

In the first part of our series on grassland management, grassland ecologist Dr Richard Lechmere-Oertel explains that understanding how grasslands respond to burning and grazing is crucial to maintaining biodiversity...

Great Karoo grazing solutions

Desperate times call for desperate and often innovative measures that can be of lasting benefit.

Overgrazed and understocked

How to reverse desertification and boost profits.

Invest in grass for better beef

There’s a bright future for beef produced from grass, but we need smarter veld management.

Managing your veld optimally

There’s no single recipe for improving veld productivity. Rather, constant refining is needed.

Managing cheetah: a co-ordinated approach

Cheetah on commercial farmland have value as part of a free-roaming population and should not be removed or relocated. Roelof Bezuidenhout talks to Vincent van der Merwe of the EWT.

The Savory system – even in the Karoo

Allan Savory’s approach to veld management is reversing desertification around the world.

Legume breakthrough

A newly-developed inoculant is on track to revolutionise the role of the legume in profitable and sustainable agriculture.

Farmers work to conserve the riverine rabbit

For nearly 20 years, the riverine rabbit has been a conservation icon. It ranks high on the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Drylands Conservation Programme agenda.

Gone fishing with legumes

Many crop farmers are in deep water financially. Fortunately, help is at hand – in the form of legumes and tramlines.

Looking at legumes

Increase your winter legume production by inoculating for good nodule formation.
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