Water availability: crucial to profitable livestock production
Fresh water is becoming an ever-scarcer resource. This places all forms of agriculture, including livestock farming, under increasing pressure, warns Shane Brody.
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The repo rate in South Africa has been slashed from 6.75% to 6.5%. Typically, a decrease in interest rates causes house price growth, so it’s great news for the property market.
Waste management fundamentals
By law, you are required to store or dispose of waste responsibly. Failure to do so may result in a fine. More seriously, it harms the environment.
Keeping the farm in the family
A big concern for farm owners is how to ensure their farms stay in the family for generations to come.
Proper estate planning is necessary
Proper estate planning can spare future generations much unhappiness and legal costs especially where the succession of agricultural property is involved.
The basics of subdividing
The assistance of a land surveyor is key to ensuring lawful procedure. Altus Strydom, chairperson of the South African Geomatics Institute, spoke to Gerhard Uys.
When to postpone a disciplinary hearing
Holding a disciplinary hearing must follow due process. This includes taking into account when to postpone the hearing.
Counting the cost of your farm
Farm input costs include items such as feed, labour and machinery. The following general cost input terms are useful in calculating precisely how much your farm costs you to run.
The last harvest – guidelines to retiring
According to Stats SA, only 6% of South Africans can afford to retire comfortably, while retirement planning was highlighted as the biggest financial planning concern amongst commercial farmers in a recent study for Farmbiz by Marketing Surveys and Statistical Analysis.
Community of property or antenuptial? Which option is best
Many of us look forward to the day when the ‘question is popped’ and preparations for the big day begin. However deciding to get married entails far more than planning a beautiful wedding. There are far-reaching decisions that need to be made.
Can a trust be party to a contract?
(Standard Bank v Johannes Gerhardus Swanepoel NO [2015) ZASCA 71). Standard Bank provided an agricultural produce loan and a business cheque account to the Harne Trust represented by the trustee, Johannes Swanepoel.
Section 3(3)(d) – the silent assassin of your estate plan
One of the overarching objectives of estate planning is to minimise estate duty. There are various planning mechanisms which can be applied to ensure that this objective is achieved.
