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The money still to be gathered from clients after selling a business should be retained as taxable income.

Young people may not always regard farming as a glamorous career, but SA urgently needs these skills.

Buy and sell, or simply transfer money to someone’s account, with PayPal, says Greg Miles.

Land restitution in SA is currently concentrated on the issue of the ‘formerly dispossessed’. This is a recipe for disaster. The focus should be on food security and using land to its maximum economic potential, says TAU SA’s Danie du Plessis.

Would you believe it? It seems that butchers keep the trimmings from the beef fillets separate from the actual fillets. Much cheaper than whole fillet, they allow you to prepare a luxurious yet affordable casserole.

The Claas Axion 800 won two awards at Agritechnica in Hanover.

South Africans should elect leaders who will follow Mandela’s footsteps and put people’s needs first.

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) is not renowned as the most efficient government department in South Africa, as compared to say, SARS. So whenever DAFF actually does something, anything, it seems to be news.

Amazingly, paying someone a ‘little extra’ to build loyalty and motivation may have the opposite effect – so beware.

JSR Genetics, a UK company that provides pig producers worldwide with a range of products and services, including top-quality breeding stock and semen, has an easy-to-use online meat/ton of feed (MTF) calculator at www.jsrgenetics.com

The New Holland T8 Auto Command tractor gets the No. 1 award from the top exhibition for agricultural machinery.

Here’s the king, or even the queen, of mango pickle recipes. There is no better way to add a powerful new dimension to the curry of your dreams…

There is a difference between inspections and searches, and privacy is key to that difference.

Throughout the drought and challenges they faced during the year, our farmers kept ploughing on.

Agri-business consultant, Peter Hughes, urges South Africans to set aside their entrenched biases and embrace Africa’s great economic turnaround.

As a grower and chairperson of the Southern African Macadamia Growers Association (Samac), I share his frustrations at the apathy of some macadamia growers/handlers who continue to benefit from the important work done by Samac without contributing to its running.

In 2014, Massey Ferguson will celebrate the historic feat of three Ferguson TE20 ‘Vaaljapie’ tractors in 1958 by returning to the South Pole.

Reduce, recycle, re-use, replace, redesign… and re-think!

For traditional human carnivores, a salad is good to look at but nothing to eat. To shatter this illusion, here is a salad to add goodness and taste to your next braai.

Income tax incentives for farmers providing housing to workers, and greater protection for farm workers’ rights, are some of the recommendations made in a report aimed at finding solutions to problems facing the agricultural sector in the Western Cape. The report has been compiled by a multi-stakeholder initiative, consisting of the Future of Agriculture and the Rural Economy process.