Profit from Sericea
Feeding Sericea hay to weaned lambs and other livestock during winter can make all the difference to your bottom line.
Sericea planting tips
Call it ‘smart man’s lucerne’ – if you get it in at the right time and control weeds, there’s no looking back.
Profiting from biodiversity
Commercial interests often clash with conservation, but as KwaZulu-Natal farming couple Irvin Pascal and Nomalanga Mosala have shown, these two aspects certainly do not need to be mutually exclusive. Richard Compton reports.
Albrecht: the SA experience
Albrecht soil science is the surest way to growing high-quality, low-cost-pastures, says John Fair.
Is Eskom doing enough to save the Cape Vulture?
Mike Burgess reports on how man’s energy hunger could spell doom of one of our most iconic bird species – the Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres) – despite attempts to lessen the threat.
Biological farming – it works for them!
Biological farming is the solution to the crisis of ever-spiralling production costs, writes John Fair.
The truth about the Ca:Mg myth
Those who seek to discredit the Albrecht system by referring to the ‘calcium:magnesium ratio myth’ are right, but not in the way they think.
Register your conservancy
How to form a conservancy to ensure the future sustainability of your land.
Bad science
One of the greatest mistakes scientists make when criticising the Albrecht system is judging it according to their own set of soil rules.
Albrecht misunderstood
Stressing the all-important role that the plant/soil ecosystem plays puts the Albrecht system ahead of other approaches to soil fertility.
Crucial calcium
The Albrecht system of liming ensures optimum soil pH and the correct level of all-important calcium.
Labournomics
Why the recent wage increases will negatively impact the SA economy as a whole, and why the government needs a lesson in economics.
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