Step 3 – How to protect the land
Monitor overhead cables and other potentially dangerous structures.
Buying a farm – 3
Implement a record keeping system as soon as you move on to your new farm says Susan Pletts.
Check those fences
Goats are natural roamers – they don’t like being fenced in.
Plant production
Photosynthesis enables plants to feed themselves – as well as the soil.
Buying a farm – part 2
Buyers often forget that they must pay the ‘tax’ portion of the purchase price of the farm, cautions Susan Pletts.
Buying a farm
Base the decision to buy a farm on sound business principles, not on emotion and sentiment, cautions Susan Pletts.
The importance of humus
Among many other things, this wonderful substance feeds and protects soil life.
Grasses, grazers and grazing
If you’re changing from cash crops to livestock farming, you will have to get your veld management right, cautions Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Retail emerging markets demystified
Land Bank’s REM financing package has some tough requirements, and many readers have asked for some of these to be clarified, writes Susan Pletts.
How to protect the land – 2
In our 17 August issue, we studied the value of mixed farming and biodiversity. In this instalment, the second of 12, we look at using poisons responsibly.
Keep stock thieves away
Stock theft and predation is widespread in the livestock industry and losses could be higher than we think.
Looking after the soil
Over the next few weeks we’ll look at repairing the damage done to our soils through poor farming practices.
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