Advice for growing bananas
Farming bananas can be profitable, if production is planned and carried out carefully.
Understanding Estimated Breeding Values
Estimated breeding values provide the most reliable information on how an animal might breed, says Amari Bornman, animal scientist at Simmentaler SA.
Cabbages: a step-by-step beginner’s guide
Producing this crop is relatively easy, provided you follow a few simple steps, says Bill Kerr.
Energy efficiency: the easiest way to save
South Africans are blasé about how they spend energy. However, saving energy is always cheaper than generating it.
Agendas and minutes: commonly used meeting procedures
Whether you’re in a co-op or one of a few farmers getting together to buy inputs at a better price, knowing how to run a meeting will contribute to your project’s success.
Turning veld assessment upside down
It’s not only the growth on top that counts, says Prof Hennie Snyman of the Department of Animal, Wildlife and Pasture Sciences at the University of the Free State.
Advice on how to conduct a meeting
Whether you’re in a co-op or just one of a few farmers getting together to buy inputs at a better price, knowing how to run a meeting will contribute to your project’s success.
Selling a papaya crop
Papayas need to be handled with considerable care throughout the harvesting and packing processes.
Slaughtering cattle with brucellosis
Animals that test positive should be slaughtered to prevent the spread of disease and to eradicate it.
Permanent pastures
Exploring the benefits and value of establishing dryland and irrigated permanent pastures.
Determining and battling acaricide resistance
While finding active ticks on your cattle after dipping may indicate a pest species with pesticide tolerance, this is not always the case.
10 tips on how to safely move livestock
Steytlerville livestock farmer and Farmer’s Weekly contributor Roelof Bezuidenhout says, “The better you handle your animals, the more money they’ll earn for you.”
Growing papayas – Part 4
Using mulch and dealing with weeds, pests and diseases in a papaya orchard.
The benefits of insulation
Insulating is a relatively simple and affordable procedure. And it saves a significant amount
of electricity.
Bringing your veld back to life after drought
Use your drought experience to evaluate your veld management and make necessary improvements to meet the next drought, says Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Growing papayas – Part 3
Escalating land prices and production costs increase the pressure to enhance yield.
Grazing and land value
Grazing capacity is not the only factor involved in the valuation of grazing land.
Growing papayas – Part 2
A papaya orchard’s four-year lifespan makes the cost of planting material an extremely important economic factor.
What will happen after the rain?
Before the grazing ecosystem can function properly once again, the adverse and debilitating effects of the drought on veld vigour have to be overcome, says Roelof Bezuidenhout.
